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CWE-401

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

VariantDraftLikelihood: Medium

Description

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

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CVEs mapped to this weakness (201)

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CVESevRiskCVSSEPSSKEVPublishedDescription
CVE-2002-05740.000.01Jul 3, 2002Memory 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.