CVE-1999-1214 Information

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.

Reference

http://www.openbsd.com/advisories/signals.txt http://www.osvdb.org/11062 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/556