CVE-2019-5600

CRITICAL

FreeBSD Out-of-bounds Write in iconv Implementation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_freebsd
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:09.iconv.asc

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0227
EPSS Percentile 84.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (3)
freebsd/freebsd 11.2 (10 CPE variants)
freebsd/freebsd 11.3 rc3
freebsd/freebsd 12.0 (7 CPE variants)
Published Jul 03, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026