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CVE-2008-4250: Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2026-05-20
• EPSS: 98.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-10-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The Server service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, Server 2008, and 7 Pre-Beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC request that triggers the overflow during path canonicalization, as exploited in the wild by Gimmiv.A in October 2008, aka "Server Service Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1150
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32326
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/827267
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497808/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497816/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31874
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021091
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-297A.html
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-088A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2902
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-067

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