Y3K problems ?

Published: 2007-02-13
Last Updated: 2007-02-13 15:31:09 UTC
by Swa Frantzen (Version: 2)
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I almost had a déjà-vu moment when I read: CVE-2007-0842
So time handling functions in Visual C++ 8.0 can't go beyond Jan 1st 3000, didn't the industry learn almost a decade ago that dates move on and building any arbitrary limit is a bad idea(tm).

To add injury to the insult it's not that it returns something indicating it can't handle a date that far in the future, but just throws up an exception and terminates the application, causing opportunity for causing a DoS.

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Swa Frantzen -- NET2S.com
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