VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2007-0842

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 5.88%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.88%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 2.0: 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS: 5.88% probability · 93th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-399
Affected: microsoft/visual c\+\+
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a442x3ye%28VS.80%29.aspxPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://osvdb.org/33626Broken Link
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2237Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459847/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32454VDB Entry
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a442x3ye%28VS.80%29.aspxPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://osvdb.org/33626Broken Link
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2237Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459847/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32454VDB Entry

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.