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CVE-1999-1518

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 1999-07-15 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Freebsd FreebsdNetbsd Netbsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References