VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-1999-1214
CVSS score2.1 NONE
EPSS probability0.30%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1997-09-15
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-255