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Overview
Vulnerability Score	5.0
CVE Id	CVE-1999-1518
Last Modified	05 Sep 2008 04:19:42
Published	15 Jul 1999 12:00:00
Confidentiality Impact	NONE
Integrity Impact	NONE
Availability Impact	PARTIAL
Access Vector	NETWORK
Access Complexity	LOW
Authentication	NONE

CVE-1999-1518

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Systems

Operating System

• Freebsd 1.1.5.1

• Freebsd 2.0

• Freebsd 2.0.5

• Freebsd 2.1.0

• Freebsd 2.1.5

• Freebsd 2.1.6

• Freebsd 2.1.7.1

• Freebsd 2.2.2

• Freebsd 2.2.3

• Freebsd 2.2.4

• Freebsd 2.2.5

• Freebsd 2.2.6

• Freebsd 2.2.8

• Freebsd 3.0

• Freebsd 3.1

• Freebsd 3.2

• Netbsd 1.3.1

• Netbsd 1.3.2

• Netbsd 1.3.3

• Netbsd 1.4

References

XF - bsd-shared-memory-dos(2351)

BID - 526

BUGTRAQ - 19990715 Shared memory DoS's