VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-1999-1518

CVSS score5 NONE
EPSS probability3.07%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1999-07-15
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Primary references