National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1083

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in the CreateDIBPatternBrushPt function in GDI in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista, and Server 2008 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an EMF or WMF image file with a malformed header that triggers an integer overflow, aka "GDI Heap Overflow Vulnerability."

Impact

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-099A

Name: TA08-099A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-099A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#632963

Name: VU#632963

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/632963

External Source: BID

Name: 28571

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28571

External Source: MS

Name: MS08-021

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-021.mspx

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29704

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29704

External Source: XF

Name: win-emf-wmf-header-bo(41471)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41471

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1019798

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019798

External Source: BID

Name: 30933

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30933

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080408 ZDI-08-020: Microsoft GDI WMF Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/490584/100/0/threaded

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 6330

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6330

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1145

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1145/references

External Source: MSKB

Name: 948590

Hyperlink:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948590

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5441

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5441

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20080408 Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=681

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-020/

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-020/

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 44214

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/44214

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 44213

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/44213

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 5442

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5442

External Source: HP

Name: SSRT080048

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120845064910729&w=2

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20080408 ZDI-08-020: Microsoft GDI WMF Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-04/0168.html