CVE-2007-4840

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-4840
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-09-12 20:17:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionPHP 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Php Php All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PHP <= 5.2.4 multiple Iconv functions denial of service - CXSecurity.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
rPath update for php5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: php4, php5 (SUSE-SA:2008 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
osvdb.org/38916 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
SUSE update for php4 and php5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1943 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
Advisories:rPSA-2007-0242 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Gentoo update for php - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
HP-UX update for Apache with PHP - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-09-13Joshua BressersWe do not consider this to be a security issue. For more information please see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1 and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

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