CVE-1999-1585

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
31/12/1999
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*