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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.4 High

CVE-1999-0084

Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0.

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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

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