CVE-2008-1083: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version; affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2008-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.