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CVE-2002-0574

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-401

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

• FreeBSD: through 4.5

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/5232
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/5232
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539

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