CVE-1999-1518

First published: Thu Jul 15 1999(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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