CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-3951
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-08-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The HZ module in the iconv implementation in FreeBSD 10.0 before p6 and NetBSD allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted argument to the iconv_open function. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2014-5384 is used for the NULL pointer dereference.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 10.0
• netbsd netbsd
References
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2014/06/24/msg055822.html mail-index.netbsd.org
- http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:15.iconv.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030458 www.securitytracker.com
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2014/06/24/msg055822.html mail-index.netbsd.org
- http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:15.iconv.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030458 www.securitytracker.com