CVE-1999-1214
IRIX - Denial of Service via Asynchronous I/O Signal Notification
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/11062
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556
Scores
EPSS
0.0008
EPSS Percentile
23.7%
Details
CWE
CWE-255
Status
published
Products (6)
bsd/bsd
bsd/bsd
4.4
freebsd/freebsd
6.2 stable
netbsd/netbsd
2.0.4
openbsd/openbsd
2.1
sgi/irix
Published
Sep 15, 1997
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026