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CVE-2007-4840

5.0
Medium

CVE-2007-4840

cve@mitre.org
Modified

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

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http://osvdb.org/38916
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http://secunia.com/advisories/27102
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http://secunia.com/advisories/27659
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http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
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http://secunia.com/advisories/30040
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http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3122
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http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0242
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https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1943