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.

Threat-Mapped Scoring

Score: 1.5

Priority: P4 - Informational (Low)

• S10 – Denial of Service

EPSS

Score: 0.01099
Percentile: 0.77069

CVSS Scoring

Mapped CWE(s)

• CWE-401 : Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

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

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