low2.1
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 cau…
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Sgi | Irix | All versions |
| Bsd | Bsd | All versions Version 4.4 |
| Freebsd | Freebsd | Version 6.2 |
| Netbsd | Netbsd | Version 2.0.4 |
| Openbsd | Openbsd | Version 2.1 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.osvdb.org/11062
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.osvdb.org/11062
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556