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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2002-03-09T05:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-01T17:02:53.762Z
Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00
Link: CVE-1999-1214
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 1997-09-15T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:30:35.227
Link: CVE-1999-1214
Redhat
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