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CVE-2007-4840

N/A

Published: September 12, 2007 at 08:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:44 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorPHP

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 3%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

PHP · PHPdrupal

95%

v ≤ 5.2.4

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (12)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Source: [email protected]

http://osvdb.org/38916

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/27102

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/27659

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/28658

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/30040

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON

Source: [email protected]

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3122

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0242

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-20

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