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CVE-1999-1518

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1999-07-15 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0, 2.1.5, 2.1.6 (+10)
• Netbsd: 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93207728118694&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/526
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2351
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93207728118694&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/526
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2351

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