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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:18:07.521Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-1518

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-07-15T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-12-19T02:29:09.440

Link: CVE-1999-1518

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