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  "id": "CVE-2007-4840",
  "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
  "published": "2007-09-12T20:17:00.000",
  "lastModified": "2024-11-21T00:36:34.623",
  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
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      "value": "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."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "PHP 5.2.4 y anteriores permite a usuarios locales o remotos dependiendo del contexto provocar una denegaci\u00f3n de serviciO (ca\u00edda de aplicaci\u00f3n) mediante (1) una cadena larga en el par\u00e1metro out_charset para la funci\u00f3n iconf; o una cadena larga en el par\u00e1metro charset para las funciones (2) iconv_mime_decode_headers, (3) iconv_mime_decode, o (4) iconf_strlen. NOTA: esto no podr\u00edan ser una vulnerabilidad en la mayor\u00eda de los entornos de servidor web que soportan m\u00faltiples hilos, a no ser que se pueda demostrar que estos problemas permiten ejecuci\u00f3n de c\u00f3digo."
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          "baseScore": 5.0,
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          "accessComplexity": "LOW",
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          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
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        "acInsufInfo": false,
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  "vendorComments": [
    {
      "organization": "Red Hat",
      "comment": "We do not consider this to be a security issue. For more information please see\nhttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1\nand http://www.php.net/security-note.php",
      "lastModified": "2007-09-13T00:00:00"
    }
  ]
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