CVE-1999-1214
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 9, 2002
- Updated
- Aug 1, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 31, 2001
Description
The asynchronous I/O facility in 4.4 BSD kernel does not check user credentials when setting the recipient of I/O notification, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by using certain ioctl and fcntl calls to cause the signal to be sent to an arbitrary process ID.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- 11062vdb-entry
- openbsd-iosig(556)vdb-entry
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