CVE-1999-1585 Information

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.

Reference

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