CVE-2007-4840

N/A Unknown
Published: September 12, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://osvdb.org/38916
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://osvdb.org/38916
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/27659
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/30040
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3122
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0242
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478730/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491693/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1943
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

24 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
3.2%
86th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

php