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CVE-1999-1585
medium
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.
References
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-22-00124-1