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CVE-1999-1214

low 2.1

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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Details

Status
Modified
Published
Last changed
Source
cve@mitre.org
Weakness
CWE-255

Severity

VersionScoreVectorSource
CVSS 2.0 low 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P nvd@nist.govPrimary

Affected products

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References