CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-1214
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1997-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
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.
Affected configurations
• sgi irix
• bsd bsd
• bsd bsd 4.4
• freebsd freebsd 6.2
• netbsd netbsd 2.0.4
• openbsd openbsd 2.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt www.openbsd.com
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt www.openbsd.com
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt www.openbsd.com
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt www.openbsd.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/11062 www.osvdb.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt www.openbsd.com
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt www.openbsd.com
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt www.openbsd.com
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt www.openbsd.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/11062 www.osvdb.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com