CVE-1999-1214

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…

published March 9, 2002

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00297 · 21.3th percentile
Published
2002-03-09T05:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 MAR 05:00Z
    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…
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