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.
References
Link Resource
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip.asc Broken Link Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.php Broken Link
http://www.osvdb.org/5232 Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539 Broken Link Patch Third Party Advisory VDB Entry Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2002-08-17T00:00:00

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


Link: CVE-2002-0574

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2024-01-26T18:55:40.850


Link: CVE-2002-0574

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