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CVE-2008-3012

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 31.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

gdiplus.dll in GDI+ in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, Server 2008, 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 does not properly perform memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed EMF image file, aka "GDI+ EMF Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Digital Image Suite: 2006
• Microsoft Forefront Client Security: 1.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6-sp1
• Microsoft Office: 2003-sp2, 2003-sp3, xp-sp3
• Microsoft Office Powerpoint Viewer: 2003
• Microsoft Office System: all versions
• Microsoft Report Viewer: 2005-sp1, 2008
• Microsoft Server: 2008
• Microsoft SQL Server: 2005-sp2
• Microsoft Sql Server Reporting Services: 2000-sp2
• Microsoft Visio: 2002-sp2
• Microsoft Corporation Windows: 2003_server-sp1, 2003_server-sp2
• Microsoft Windows-Nt: vista, xp-sp3
• Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions
• Microsoft Works: 8.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122235754013992&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32154
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31019
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020835
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-253A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2520
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2696
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-052
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6040
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122235754013992&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32154
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31019

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