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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-01T17:02:53.762Z
Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00
Link: CVE-1999-1214

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Status : Deferred
Published: 1997-09-15T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-1999-1214

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