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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.

Published

2002-07-03T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-401

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	freebsd	freebsd	≤ 4.5	Yes

References

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip.asc Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.php Broken Link ([email protected])
http://www.osvdb.org/5232 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539 Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip.asc Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.php Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.osvdb.org/5232 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539 Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)