CVE-1999-1585 | BDVDB-2026-12332 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-22-00124-1

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12005-08-30Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-09-17Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.