{"id":"CVE-2007-4840","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:39:12.576012Z","published":"2007-09-12T20:17:00Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/27102"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/27659"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/28658"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/30040"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://osvdb.org/38916"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3122"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0242"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478730/100/0/threaded"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491693/100/0/threaded"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1943"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}