High severity8.4NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 1990· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-1999-0084
CVE-1999-0084
Description
Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0.
Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:sun:nfs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
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