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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:56:38.310Z

Reserved: 2002-06-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-0574

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-07-03T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-0574

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