Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting freebsd package, versions [,6.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383148
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Sept 1997
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Sep 1997

CVE-1999-1214  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials. 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.

CVSS Scores

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