CVE-1999-1214
N/A
Published: March 9, 2002 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:49 PM UTC
5 products affected across 5 vendorsFreeBSDOpenBSDIrix
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (3)
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSD
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txtVDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-255
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