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published date: September 15, 1997

CVE-1999-1214 : Denial of Service Vulnerability

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.

Product(s):

  • bsd bsd *
  • Bsd Bsd -
  • Bsd Bsd 4.1
  • Bsd Bsd 4.2
  • Bsd Bsd 4.3
  • Bsd Bsd 4.4

Question to Ask Vendors:

  1. Can you confirm whether your systems are affected by CVE-1999-1214, and if so, what steps are you currently taking to mitigate this vulnerability?
  2. What is your estimated timeline for fully resolving CVE-1999-1214 in your products or services, and how will you communicate updates on this issue to us as your customer?

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