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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.

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
FreebsdFreebsd Version <= 4.5
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 1.1% 0.76
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 5 10 2.9
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.