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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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-1999-1566 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:56:49.060Z

Reserved: 2005-08-30T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-1999-1585

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 1999-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-1999-1585

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