Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2002· Updated Apr 16, 2026
CVE-2002-0574
CVE-2002-0574
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 products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
4- ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip.ascnvdBroken LinkPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539nvdBroken LinkPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB EntryVendor Advisory
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.phpnvdBroken Link
- www.osvdb.org/5232nvdBroken Link
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