CVE-2014-3951

high

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.

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030458

http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:15.iconv.asc

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2014/06/24/msg055822.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-08-21

Updated: 2014-08-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High