CVE-1999-1214 - The asynchronous I/O facility in 4.4 BSD kernel does not check user credentials when setting the rec

CVE-1999-1214

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.

References

Vulnerable Configurations

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

CVSS

Base:	2.1 (as of 10-10-2017 - 01:29)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-255

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
LOCAL	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	NONE	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

refmap via4

misc	http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt
openbsd	19970915 Vulnerability in I/O Signal Handling
osvdb	11062
xf	openbsd-iosig(556)

Last major update

10-10-2017 - 01:29

Published

15-09-1997 - 04:00

Last modified

10-10-2017 - 01:29