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CVE-1999-1214

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 1997-09-15 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd FreebsdNetbsd NetbsdOpenbsd OpenbsdSgi IrixBsd Bsd

Weakness Type

CWE-255

References