CVE-1999-1214

The CVE-1999-1214 issue affects the 4.4 BSD kernel’s asynchronous I/O facility. It does not validate credentials when setting the recipient of I/O notification, allowing a local user to trigger a signal to an arbitrary process ID via specific ioctl/fcntl calls, causing a denial of service. The do...

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...