VulnerabilityModified
CVE-1999-1214
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…
LOW 2.1EPSS 0.30%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 2.1 LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 0.30% probability · 22th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-255
- Affected
- sgi/irix · bsd/bsd · freebsd/freebsd · netbsd/netbsd · openbsd/openbsd
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.osvdb.org/11062
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
- http://www.osvdb.org/11062
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.