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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1518

Published: Jul 15, 1999 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1518
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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 Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FreebsdFreebsd1.1.5.1 (including)1.1.5.1 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.0 (including)2.0 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.0.5 (including)2.0.5 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.1.0 (including)2.1.0 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.1.5 (including)2.1.5 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.1.6 (including)2.1.6 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.1.7.1 (including)2.1.7.1 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.2.2 (including)2.2.2 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.2.3 (including)2.2.3 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.2.4 (including)2.2.4 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.2.5 (including)2.2.5 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.2.6 (including)2.2.6 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd2.2.8 (including)2.2.8 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd3.0 (including)3.0 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd3.1 (including)3.1 (including)
FreebsdFreebsd3.2 (including)3.2 (including)
NetbsdNetbsd1.3.1 (including)1.3.1 (including)
NetbsdNetbsd1.3.2 (including)1.3.2 (including)
NetbsdNetbsd1.3.3 (including)1.3.3 (including)
NetbsdNetbsd1.4 (including)1.4 (including)

References

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