NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in HZ module in iconv implementation in FreeBSD 10.0 and NetBSD

CVE-2014-3951 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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