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CVE-1999-0446
CVE-1999-0446 affects NetBSD 1.3.3 and earlier. A local user can trigger a denial of service by creating an unusual symbolic link with the ln command, exploiting a bug in the VFS subsystem. The connected Red Hat and CVE records corroborate the local DoS impact. The available documents do not spec...
CVE-1999-0446
Local users can perform a denial of service in NetBSD 1.3.3 and earlier versions by creating an unusual symbolic link with the ln command, triggering a bug in VFS...
FreeBSD_DoS.txt
Resending once, since it's been 10.5 days... Here's an interesting denial-of-service attack against FreeBSD =3.0 systems. It abuses a flaw in the new' FreeBSD vfscache.c; it has no way to purge entries unless the vnode' e.g. the file they point to is removed from memory -- which generally doesn't...
CVE-1999-0912
FreeBSD VFS cache vfscache allows local users to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of files...
FreeBSD 3.03.13.2 - vfs_cache Denial of Service
FreeBSD 3.03.13.2 - vfscache Denial of Service // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/653/info A vulnerability exists in FreeBSD's new VFS cache introduced in version 3.0 that allows a local and possibly remote user to force the kernel to consume large quantities of wired memory thus creati...
FreeBSD 3.0/3.1/3.2 - 'vfs_cache' Denial of Service
// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/653/info A vulnerability exists in FreeBSD's new VFS cache introduced in version 3.0 that allows a local and possibly remote user to force the kernel to consume large quantities of wired memory thus creating a denial of service condition. The new VFS...