linux.2.x.ipc.DoS.txt

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 01:41:25 +0100 From: Michal Zalewski Linux 2.x IPC vunerability Linux IPC implementation seems to be broken. I noticed Alan about one/two months ago, so I believe it has been fixed in recent 2.2.x Linuxes. In fact, any luser may consume whole memory available on system using...

CVE-1999-1086

Novell 5 and earlier, when running over IPX with a packet signature level less than 3, allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges by spoofing the MAC address in IPC fragmented packets that make NetWare Core Protocol NCP calls...

BSD/Linux Kernel 2.3 (BSD/OS 4.0 / FreeBSD 3.2 / NetBSD 1.4) - Shared Memory Denial of Service

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/526/info Operating systems with a shared memory implementation based on or influenced by the 4.4BSD 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. Wh...

BSDLinux Kernel 2.3 (BSDOS 4.0 FreeBSD 3.2 NetBSD 1.4) - Shared Memory Denial of Service

BSDLinux Kernel 2.3 BSDOS 4.0 FreeBSD 3.2 NetBSD 1.4 - Shared Memory Denial of Service / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/526/info Operating systems with a shared memory implementation based on or influenced by the 4.4BSD code may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack The problem...