CVE-1999-1518

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.031 · 88 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

3.07% (88th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

21 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USLLM-inferredCWE-400USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-19423BSD/Linux Kernel 2.3 (BSD/OS 4.0 / FreeBSD 3.2 / NetBSD 1.4) - Shared Memory Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db

affected products (21)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
freebsd freebsd= 1.1.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.1.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.1.6nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.1.7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.2.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.2.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 2.2.8nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd= 1.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd= 1.3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd= 1.3.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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also known as (2)

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sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 1999-07-15modified 2026-06-16

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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