CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1518

5.0 MEDIUM Published 1999-07-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-07-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Operating systems with shared memory implementations based on BSD 4.4 code allow a user to conduct a denial of service and bypass memory limits (e.g., as specified with rlimits) using mmap or shmget to allocate memory and cause page faults.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 1.1.5.1 • freebsd freebsd 2.0 • freebsd freebsd 2.0.5 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.0 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.5 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.6 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.7.1 • freebsd freebsd 2.2.2 • freebsd freebsd 2.2.3 • freebsd freebsd 2.2.4 • freebsd freebsd 2.2.5 • freebsd freebsd 2.2.6 • freebsd freebsd 2.2.8 • freebsd freebsd 3.0 • freebsd freebsd 3.1 • freebsd freebsd 3.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.3.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.3.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.3.3 • netbsd netbsd 1.4

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