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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Information
Published : 1997-09-14 21:00
Updated : 2017-10-09 18:29
NVD link : CVE-1999-1214
Mitre link : CVE-1999-1214
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CWE
CWE-255
Credentials Management Errors
Products Affected
bsd
- bsd
netbsd
- netbsd
freebsd
- freebsd
sgi
- irix
openbsd
- openbsd