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CVE-2007-4840

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CVE-2007-4840

Published: Sep 12, 2007

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

PHP 5.2.4 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a long string in the out_charset parameter to the iconv function; or a long string in the charset parameter to the (2) iconv_mime_decode_headers, (3) iconv_mime_decode, or (4) iconv_strlen function. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability in most web server environments that support multiple threads, unless these issues can be demonstrated for code execution.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

SUSE-SA:2008:004
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
28658
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
GLSA-200710-02
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
30040
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
27659
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
3122
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SREASON
SSRT080056
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_HP
HPSBUX02332
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_HP
27102
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
38916
vdb-entry
x_refsource_OSVDB

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