Vulnerability in Freebsd

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.

EPSS: 0.020 (78.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)