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FKIE_CVE-2007-0842

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-02-13 11:28 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:36

Severity

Summary

The 64-bit versions of Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 standard library (MSVCR80.DLL) time functions, including (1) localtime, (2) localtime_s, (3) gmtime, (4) gmtime_s, (5) ctime, (6) ctime_s, (7) wctime, (8) wctime_s, and (9) fstat, trigger an assertion error instead of a NULL pointer or EINVAL when processing a time argument later than Jan 1, 3000, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application exit) via large time values. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a design limitation of the functions, and the vulnerability lies with any application that does not validate arguments to these functions. However, this behavior is inconsistent with documentation, which does not list assertions as a possible result of an error condition.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a442x3ye%28VS.80%29.aspx	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://osvdb.org/33626	Broken Link
cve@mitre.org	http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2237	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459847/100/0/threaded	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32454	VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a442x3ye%28VS.80%29.aspx	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://osvdb.org/33626	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2237	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459847/100/0/threaded	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32454	VDB Entry

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	microsoft	visual_c\+\+	2005

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CVE-2007-0842 (GCVE-0-2007-0842)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-02-13 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:34

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2291 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459847/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2237	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a442x3ye…	x_refsource_MISC
http://osvdb.org/33626	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Date Public

2007-02-12 00:00

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