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,…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 39.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
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."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
References tagged exploit2 references
- 6716 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 6619 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 2 months later
· 2 months 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 39.3% · top 1.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- 32154 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1020838 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- HPSBST02372 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- MS08-052 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20080909 ZDI-08-055: Microsoft Windows GDI+ BMP Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2696 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.evilfingers.com/patchTuesday/MS08_052_GDI+_Vulnerability.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 6716 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-055 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 31022 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5881 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.evilfingers.com/patchTuesday/MS08_052_GDI+_Vulnerability_ver2.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 6619 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- TA08-253A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2520 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2008-3005 (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-2008-3015)Record last updated .