CVE-2002-0574 Information

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.

Reference

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