CVE-1999-1214

CVSS 2.0 Score 2.1 of 10 (low)

Details

Published Sep 15, 1997
Updated: Nov 20, 2024
CWE ID 255

Summary

CVE-1999-1214 is a vulnerability affecting the asynchronous I/O facility in the 4.4 BSD kernel. This issue permits local users to cause a denial of service by manipulating certain ioctl and fcntl calls. The kernel fails to verify user credentials when setting the recipient of I/O notifications, enabling attackers to arbitrarily send signals to any process ID. This vulnerability poses a serious threat to system stability and availability.

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Affected Products

  • SGI IRAX
  • BSD BSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD

Affected Vendors

  • OpenBSD Project
  • Netbsd
  • Blue State Digital
  • Saskatchewan Government Insurance