CVE-2007-4840
EPSS 1.4%Published: 9/12/2007Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4840
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 packages (1)
- Debian/glibcfrom 0, < 2.7-1