CVE-1999-1564

Summary

CVE-1999-1564 is a vulnerability affecting FreeBSD 3.2 and potentially other versions. This issue permits a local user to trigger a denial of service condition, resulting in a system panic. The cause of this vulnerability lies in the handling of NFS v3 mounted directories, which can succumb to a large number of accesses from numerous processes. This can lead to an unintended system response, causing the system to become unresponsive and crash.

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