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CVE-2014-5384

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-08-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The VIQR module in the iconv implementation in FreeBSD 10.0 before p6 and NetBSD allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) via a crafted argument to the iconv_open function. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2014-3951 per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 10.0
• Netbsd: all versions

References

• http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2014/06/24/msg055822.html
• http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:15.iconv.asc
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030458
• http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2014/06/24/msg055822.html
• http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:15.iconv.asc
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030458

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