CVE-2002-0574

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2002-07-03

Last modified

2024-08-08

Weaknesses

CWE-401

Affected products

• Freebsd (Freebsd)

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/5232
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539