fkie_cve-1999-1214
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
1997-09-15 04:00
Modified
2024-11-20 23:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.osvdb.org/11062
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/11062
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sgi irix *
bsd bsd *
bsd bsd 4.4
freebsd freebsd 6.2
netbsd netbsd 2.0.4
openbsd openbsd 2.1


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