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CVE-1999-1441

Status: ModifiedLow (2.1)—Exploit
Severity2.1Low · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability0.70 %higher than 53% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

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.

CVSS

Base score
2.1
Version
2.0
Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.70 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
53
Score date
10/21/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Affected technologies (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

CWEs

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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