Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1518 - Denial of Service vulnerability in Multiple Vendor Shared Memory
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL 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 Configurations
Exploit-Db
| description | BSD/OS 4.0,FreeBSD 3.2,Linux kernel 2.3,NetBSD 1.4 Shared Memory Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-1999-1518 . Dos exploits for multiple platform |
| id | EDB-ID:19423 |
| last seen | 2016-02-02 |
| modified | 1999-07-15 |
| published | 1999-07-15 |
| reporter | Mike Perry |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/19423/ |
| title | BSD/OS <= 4.0,FreeBSD <= 3.2,Linux kernel <= 2.3,NetBSD <= 1.4 Shared Memory Denial of Service Vulnerability |