CVE-1999-1518 (GCVE-0-1999-1518)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2001-09-12 04:00
Modified
2024-08-01 17:18
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
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