Home / bulletins MS08-071 – Critical: Vulnerabilities in GDI Could Allow Remote Code Execution (956802) - Version:1.1
Posted on 14 April 2009
CriticalSeverity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.1 (December 10, 2008): Updated the Severity Ratings and Vulnerability Identifiers table to list the security impact for GDI Heap Overflow Vulnerability - CVE -2008-3465 as Remote Code Execution for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2, and Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems and Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems.Summary: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in GDI. Exploitation of either of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted WMF image file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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- MS08-071 - Version: 1.0
- MS08-071 - Version: 1.1
- MS08-071 - Version: :1.1
