CVE-1999-1518
Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—💥 Exploit
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.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Base score: 5
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 3.07%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 87
- Score date: 10/8/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
💥 Public exploits
Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.
- Published on Exploit-DB · BSD/Linux Kernel 2.3 (BSD/OS 4.0 / FreeBSD 3.2 / NetBSD 1.4) - Shared Memory Denial of Service (7/15/1999)
Affected technologies (2)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-Other
References
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