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.
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sgi irix |
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bsd bsd |
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bsd bsd 4.4 |
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openbsd openbsd 2.1 |
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freebsd freebsd 6.2 |
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netbsd netbsd 2.0.4 |
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