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CVE-1999-1518

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
15/07/1999
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:1.1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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