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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 IDCVE-2002-0574
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS score5.0
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWECWE-401
StatusModified
Published2002-07-03
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionMemory 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.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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