CVE-2007-4840

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…

published September 12, 2007

CVSS
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EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03152 · 87.8th percentile
Published
2007-09-12T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 SEP 20:00Z
    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…
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