CVE-2008-2304
Buffer overflow in Apple Core Image Fun House 2.0 and earlier in CoreImage Examples in Xcode tools before 3.1 allows user-assisted…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 5.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in Apple Core Image Fun House 2.0 and earlier in CoreImage Examples in Xcode tools before 3.1 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a .funhouse file with a string XML element that contains many characters.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Core Image Fun House 2.0 (OSX) - Arbitrary Code Execution (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6043dos, osxpublished 11 Jul 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 6043 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.7% · top 6.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- 3988 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2008-07-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 6043 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2352 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- apple-xcode-funhouse-bo(43733) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2093 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31060 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20080711 [NETRAGARD SECURITY ADVISORY][Apple Core Image Fun House <= 2.0 OS X -- Arbitrary Code Execution][NETRAGARD-20080711] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 30189 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1020472 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-2300 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-2304)Record last updated .