Published: 15/07/1999 Updated: 19/12/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 505

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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freebsd freebsd 2.1.0
freebsd freebsd 2.1.5
freebsd freebsd 1.1.5.1
freebsd freebsd 2.2.3
freebsd freebsd 2.2.4
netbsd netbsd 1.3.1
netbsd netbsd 1.3.2
freebsd freebsd 2.1.6
freebsd freebsd 2.1.7.1
freebsd freebsd 2.2.2
freebsd freebsd 3.1
freebsd freebsd 3.2
freebsd freebsd 2.2.8
freebsd freebsd 3.0
freebsd freebsd 2.0
freebsd freebsd 2.0.5
freebsd freebsd 2.2.5
freebsd freebsd 2.2.6
netbsd netbsd 1.3.3
netbsd netbsd 1.4

/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/526/info Operating systems with a shared memory implementation based on or influenced by the 44BSD code may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack The problem exists because you can mmap() or shmget() as much memory as you'd like bypassing rlimits When you trigger pagefaults, the system will begin ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/526 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93207728118694&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2351 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19423/

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