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CVE-2026-58081: Heap based buffer overflow in iconv(3)
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-08-19 · updated 2026-10-27
- Weakness: CWE-122
Description
Several encoding modules, including HZ, UTF-7, VIQR, and ZW, did not properly check the size of the caller-supplied output buffer before writing converted characters. An application that uses iconv(3) to convert untrusted input to or from one of the affected encodings may be vulnerable to buffer overflows if it uses one of the affected encoding modules.
Affected products
- FreeBSD: 14.3, 14.3-p1, 14.3-p10, 14.3-p11, 14.3-p12, 14.3-p13 (+32)
References
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