Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-1999-0912. PoCs published by Charles M. Hannum.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a denial of service vulnerability in FreeBSD's VFS cache by creating a large number of hard links to consume wired memory. The code generates directories and files with long names, then creates multiple hard links to force memory exhaustion.
Description
FreeBSD VFS cache (vfs_cache) allows local users to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of files.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a denial of service vulnerability in FreeBSD's VFS cache by creating a large number of hard links to consume wired memory. The code generates directories and files with long names, then creates multiple hard links to force memory exhaustion.