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 cve@mitre.org

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
NetBSD NetBSD	=1.4
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=3.1
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.2.5
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.2.2
NetBSD NetBSD	=1.3.1
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.2.3
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.0.5
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=1.1.5.1
NetBSD NetBSD	=1.3.3
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.2.8
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=3.0
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=3.2
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.2.4
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.1.0
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.2.6
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.1.6
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.1.7.1
NetBSD NetBSD	=1.3.2
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.1.5
FreeBSD FreeBSD	=2.0
	=1.1.5.1
	=2.0
	=2.0.5
	=2.1.0
	=2.1.5
	=2.1.6
	=2.1.7.1
	=2.2.2
	=2.2.3
	=2.2.4
	=2.2.5
	=2.2.6
	=2.2.8
	=3.0
	=3.1
	=3.2
	=1.3.1
	=1.3.2
	=1.3.3
	=1.4

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