CVE-1999-1518

The CVE-1999-1518 entry describes that operating systems with BSD 4.4–style shared memory implementations allow a user to perform a denial-of-service and bypass memory limits by using mmap or shmget to allocate memory and trigger page faults. The impact stated is partial availability; no specific...

CVE-2001-1397

The System V SYS5 shared memory implementation for Linux kernel before 2.2.19 could allow attackers to modify recently freed memory...

patch_for_ipc_vuln.txt

Subject: Re: KKIS19990914.004b: ShareDream - shared memory - ipc vulnerability To: [email protected] Attached is a trivial Linux-2.2.12 patch wich adds add a procfs entry for tuning the limit of shared memory allocable. /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax Max number of shared memory pages Attached is...

shared_mem_DoS.txt

Subject: KKIS19990914.004b: ShareDream - shared memory - ipc vulnerability To: [email protected] S E C U R I T Y Contacts KKI Security Team Cracow Commercial Internet http://www.security.kki.pl http://www.kki.pl mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Informations Raport title...

CVE-1999-1518

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...

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...