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CVE-1999-1518

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CVE-1999-1518

Published: Sep 12, 2001

Modified: Aug 1, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

526
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
19990715 Shared memory DoS's
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
bsd-shared-memory-dos(2351)
vdb-entry
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