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CVE-1999-1214
Published: Mar 9, 2002
Modified: Aug 1, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
x_refsource_MISC
19970915 Vulnerability in I/O Signal Handling
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_OPENBSD
11062
vdb-entry
x_refsource_OSVDB
openbsd-iosig(556)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
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