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 to an arbitrary process ID.

CVSS v2.0 2.1 LOW

2.1^/10

CVSS v2.0 : LOW

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/11062
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:bsd:bsd::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:bsd:bsd:4.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:stable::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.0.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.1:::::::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 1997-09-15 04:00

Updated : 2023-12-10 10:17

NVD link : CVE-1999-1214

Mitre link : CVE-1999-1214

CVE.ORG link : CVE-1999-1214

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Products Affected

netbsd

netbsd

bsd

bsd

sgi

irix

openbsd

openbsd

freebsd

freebsd

CWE

CWE-255

Credentials Management Errors

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