CVE-1999-0555

CVE-1999-0555 describes a UID 0 issue where a Unix account whose name is not "root" has root privileges. Multiple connected sources corroborate that any non-root-named account can effectively gain full control, exposing complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Red Hat and PT-...

CVE-1999-0084

CVE-1999-0084 affects certain NFS servers . The vulnerability permits a local user to perform a privileged action by running mknod to create a writable kmem device and set the UID to 0, effectively enabling a privilege escalation to root as described in the provided sources. Multiple connected do...