CVE-2008-3465: Microsoft Windows 2000

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 13.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in an API in GDI in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a WMF file with a malformed file-size parameter, which would not be properly handled by a third-party application that uses this API for a copy operation, aka "GDI Heap Overflow Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: any version
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version; version gold only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2008-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.