CVE-2002-0574 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2003-04-02

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01099.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip.asc
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.php
http://www.osvdb.org/5232
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539

History

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Freebsd Freebsd

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00.000Z

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

Reserved: 2002-06-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0574

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-0574

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-401

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