CVE-1999-1214

Low CVSS 2.1

Published 1997-09-15 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1214, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1214

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