Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-1999-1518

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.

EPSS: 0.031 (86.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5
Netbsd — versions 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)