Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual C\+\+
CVE-2007-0842
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.059 (93.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.056 · newest: 0.059 · change: +0.003
Affected products
- Microsoft Visual C\+\+ — versions 2005
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32454 (VDB Entry, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459847/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/2237 (Exploit, third-party-advisory)
- msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a442x3ye(VS.80).aspx (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- osvdb.org/33626 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)