CVE-1999-1214
lowpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.003 · 22 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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