The (1) rcS and (2) mountall programs in Sun Solaris 2.x, possibly before 2.4, start a privileged shell on the system console if fsck fails while the system is booting, which allows attackers with physical access to gain root privileges.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2005-08-30T04:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-17T01:56:49.060Z
Reserved: 2005-08-30T00:00:00Z
Link: CVE-1999-1585
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 1999-12-31T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2018-10-30T16:25:12.013
Link: CVE-1999-1585
Redhat
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