| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-1999-1518 (CCN-2351) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 1999-07-15 | ||||||||
| Published: | 1999-07-15 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2017-12-19 | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 4.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 5.0 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-Other | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Denial of Service | ||||||||
| References: | Source: CCN Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:36:12 -0500 Shared memory DoS's Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-1999-1518 Source: BUGTRAQ Type: UNKNOWN 19990715 Shared memory DoS's Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 13553 Multiple Unix Vendor BSD Based Memory Implementation Memory Limits Bypass Source: BID Type: Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory 526 Source: CCN Type: BID-526 Multiple Vendor Shared Memory Denial of Service Vulnerability Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN bsd-shared-memory-dos(2351) Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN bsd-shared-memory-dos(2351) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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