CVE-2007-4840

Publication date 12 September 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

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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Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php5 8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life, was needed
7.10 gutsy Ignored end of life, was needed
7.04 feisty Ignored end of life, was needed
6.10 edgy Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life, was needed

Notes

kees

local php instance crasher only, not a serious security issue