CVE-1999-1214

Publication date

2002-03-09 05:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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.