CVE-2014-3951: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 10.0 only
• Netbsd Netbsd: any version

Published 2014-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.