CVE-1999-1214
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2002-03-09 05:00
Modified
2024-08-01 17:02
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.osvdb.org/11062
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556
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