Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-1999-1441

Linux 2.0.34 does not properly prevent users from sending SIGIO signals to arbitrary processes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending SIGIO to processes that do not catch it.

EPSS: 0.007 (49.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.0.34
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)