Several encoding modules, including HZ, UTF-7, VIQR, and ZW, did not properly check the size of the caller-supplied output buffer before writing converted characters.
An application that uses iconv(3) to convert untrusted input to or from one of the affected encodings may be vulnerable to buffer overflows if it uses one of the affected encoding modules.
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Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Several encoding modules, including HZ, UTF-7, VIQR, and ZW, did not properly check the size of the caller-supplied output buffer before writing converted characters. An application that uses iconv(3) to convert untrusted input to or from one of the affected encodings may be vulnerable to buffer overflows if it uses one of the affected encoding modules. | |
| Title | Heap based buffer overflow in iconv(3) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-122 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: freebsd
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-19T07:20:26.880Z
Reserved: 2026-06-29T01:40:17.498Z
Link: CVE-2026-58081
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-19T08:17:12.263
Modified: 2026-08-19T08:17:12.263
Link: CVE-2026-58081
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