CVE-2019-5600

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r349622, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.3-PRERELEASE before r349624, 11.3-RC3 before 11.3-RC3-p1, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, a bug in iconv implementation may allow an attacker to write past the end of an output buffer. Depending on the implementation, an attacker may be able to create a denial of service, provoke incorrect program behavior, or induce a remote code execution.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 11.2, 11.2-p10, 11.2-p2, 11.2-p3, 11.2-p4, 11.2-p5 (+12)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153520/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-09.iconv.html
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:09.iconv.asc
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153520/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-09.iconv.html
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:09.iconv.asc

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