Memory Leak in FreeBSD: Remote Denial of Service via ICMP Echo Packets

CVE-2002-0574 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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