CVE-2014-3951 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3951?

CVE-2014-3951 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 21 Aug 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3951?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Freebsd Freebsd, Netbsd Netbsd.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3951?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-3951 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2014-3951 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3951 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd

• CVE-2018-17160 Memory corruption in FreeBSD Critical 10.0
• CVE-2014-3954 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-4304 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-0226 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0002 Denial of service in n/a Critical 10.0

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x9hx-g4q9-mm5h.