CVE-2019-5600: Freebsd

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 11.2 only; version 11.3 only; version 12.0 only

Published 2019-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.