CVE-1999-1214

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
• http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
• http://www.osvdb.org/11062
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556

References

• http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
• http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
• http://www.osvdb.org/11062
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556

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