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Vulnerability record · CVE-1999-1214 · published 15 September 1997

CVE-1999-1214: Sgi irix vulnerability

Sgi · Irix

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.

2.1 CVSS 2.0 Low EPSS 0.30% · top 79.9% CWE-255 · CWE-255
2.1CVSS 2.0 base score
0.30%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
5Affected product versions listed by NVD
12References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

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

Affected products

5 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-1999-1214), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-28). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.