CVE-1999-1518

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1999-07-15 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1518, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1518

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P