VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2002-0574

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.96%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2002-07-03
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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