CVE-1999-1214

Published: 1997-09-15

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.

Severity

Overall Severity: N/A

CVSS Metrics

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Affected Products

sgi - irix

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bsd - bsd

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bsd - bsd

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freebsd - freebsd

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netbsd - netbsd

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openbsd - openbsd

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References

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