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Low
CVE-1999-1214
The asynchronous I/O facility in 4.4 BSD kernel does not...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
irix, bsd, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd
Vulnerable Versions:
4.4, 6.2, 2.0.4, 2.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 9th, 2002
Last Modified:
August 1st, 2024
Added to House:
July 17th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.