CVE-1999-1518

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-07-15 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 1.1.5.1

1.1.5.1

FreeBSD 2.0

2.0

FreeBSD 2.0.5

2.0.5

FreeBSD 2.1.0

2.1.0

FreeBSD 2.1.5

2.1.5

FreeBSD 2.1.6

2.1.6

FreeBSD 2.1.7.1

2.1.7.1

FreeBSD 2.2.2

2.2.2

FreeBSD 2.2.3

2.2.3

FreeBSD 2.2.4

2.2.4

FreeBSD 2.2.5

2.2.5

FreeBSD 2.2.6

2.2.6

FreeBSD 2.2.8

2.2.8

FreeBSD 3.0

3.0

FreeBSD 3.1

3.1

FreeBSD 3.2

3.2

NetBSD 1.3.1

1.3.1

NetBSD 1.3.2

1.3.2

NetBSD 1.3.3

1.3.3

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