Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000

CVE-2008-2249

Integer overflow in GDI in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed header in a crafted WMF file, which triggers a buffer overflow, aka "GDI Integer Overflow Vulnerability."

EPSS: 0.311 (98.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows_2000
Microsoft Windows_2003_server
Microsoft Windows_server_2003
Microsoft Windows_server_2008
Microsoft Windows_vista — versions gold
Microsoft Windows_xp
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-189

References

secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_IDEFENSE, third-party-advisory)