CVE-2002-0574 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (Memory leak in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier allows remote attacke)
Memory leak in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via ICMP echo packets that trigger a bug in ip_output() in which the reference count for a routing table entry is not decremented, which prevents the entry from being removed.
| CVE ID | CVE-2002-0574 |
|---|---|
| Severity | MEDIUM |
| CVSS score | 5.0 |
| CVSS vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| CWE | CWE-401 |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2002-07-03 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | Memory leak in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via ICMP echo packets that trigger a bug in ip_output() in which the reference count for a routing table entry is not decremented, which prevents the entry from being removed. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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