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Credentials Management Errors

CVE-1999-1214

Low
2.1/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-255 - Credentials Management Errors

Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of credentials.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published