Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1585

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-08-30 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-17 01:56:49

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

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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