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.
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History
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Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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References | () http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt - | |
References | () http://www.osvdb.org/11062 - | |
References | () https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556 - |
Information
Published : 1997-09-15 04:00
Updated : 2024-11-20 23:30
NVD link : CVE-1999-1214
Mitre link : CVE-1999-1214
CVE.ORG link : CVE-1999-1214
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Products Affected
openbsd
- openbsd
sgi
- irix
netbsd
- netbsd
bsd
- bsd
freebsd
- freebsd
CWE
CWE-255
Credentials Management Errors