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CVE-2002-0574

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2002-07-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

CWE-401

References