CVE-1999-1214

Summary

CVECVE-1999-1214
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published1997-09-15 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-10-10 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-255

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Bsd Bsd All All All All
Operating System Bsd Bsd 4.4 All All All
Operating System Bsd Bsd All All All All
Operating System Bsd Bsd 4.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.2 stable All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.2 stable All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 2.0.4 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 2.0.4 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 2.1 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 2.1 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix All All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
11062 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt MISC www.openbsd.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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