CVE-2002-0574

Published Jul 3, 2002

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-401

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "2BCDB223-15E8-4E63-BB82-446AFBDE52F9",
            "versionEndIncluding": "4.5"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References