{"id":"CVE-2002-0574","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2002-0574","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:51:19.493Z","title":"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…","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":"2002-07-03T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:57:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-401"],"affected":["freebsd/freebsd"],"epss":{"score":0.0196,"percentile":0.80176,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.96%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip.asc","tags":["Broken Link","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.php","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/5232","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539","tags":["Broken Link","Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip.asc","tags":["Broken Link","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8893.php","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/5232","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4539","tags":["Broken Link","Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0574","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}