A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in FreeBSD 10.0 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is the function iconv_open of the component Array Access. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was presented 08/21/2014 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securitytracker.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-5384 since 08/21/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 10.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• 10.0

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