CVE-1999-1518 Information

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.

Reference

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