CVE-2007-4840

medium

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.

References

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/27102

http://secunia.com/advisories/27659

http://secunia.com/advisories/28658

http://secunia.com/advisories/30040

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3122

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1943

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

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml

Details

Published: 2007-09-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium