CVE-2008-3015
Integer overflow in gdiplus.dll in GDI+ in Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP2 and SP3, 2007 Microsoft Office System Gold and SP1, Visio 2002 SP2, PowerPoint Viewer 2003, Works 8, Digital Image Suite 2006, SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP2, SQL Server 2005 SP2, Report Viewer 2005 SP1 and 2008, and Forefront Client Security 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BMP image file with a malformed BitMapInfoHeader that triggers a buffer overflow, aka "GDI+ BMP Integer Overflow Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 39.3% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-3005)
- Published
- September 11, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-3005 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / digital image suite
- microsoft / forefront client security
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office powerpoint viewer
- microsoft / report viewer
- microsoft / report viewer
- microsoft / sql server
- microsoft / sql server reporting services
- microsoft / visio
- microsoft / works
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122235754013992&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32154(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.evilfingers.com/patchTuesday/MS08_052_GDI+_Vulnerability.txt
- http://www.evilfingers.com/patchTuesday/MS08_052_GDI+_Vulnerability_ver2.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496153/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31022
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020838
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-253A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2520(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2696(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-055
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-052
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5881
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6619
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6716
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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