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CVE-1999-1214

CVE information

Published

26 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
2.1/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:bsd:bsd:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:bsd:bsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:stable:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -