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CVE-1999-1214

CVE-1999-1214

EPSS 0.3%
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.
Affected products
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References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txthttp://www.osvdb.org/11062