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Unscored CVE-2002-0574 EUVD-2002-0569GHSA-9mf7-mqw7-vh9v

Memory leak in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via ICMP echo packets that …

Published Apr 2, 2003 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

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