CVE-1999-1214

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-255 Credentials Management

Publication date:

15/09/1997

Last modified:

03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

2.10

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:bsd:bsd::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:bsd:bsd:4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:stable::::::
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.1:::::::*

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CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:bsd:bsd::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:bsd:bsd:4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:stable::::::
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.1:::::::*

CVE-1999-1214

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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