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CVE-2008-3465
Heap-based buffer overflow in an API in GDI in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1,…
Critical9.8EPSS 13.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in an API in GDI in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a WMF file with a malformed file-size parameter, which would not be properly handled by a third-party application that uses this API for a copy operation, aka "GDI Heap Overflow Vulnerability."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.7% · top 3.5% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- n/a
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
- CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-119
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- ADV-2008-3383 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6062 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MS08-071 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 1021365 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- TA08-344A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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