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CVE-2008-0986

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0986 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in the libsgl.so library within Google Android SDK versions m3-rc37a and earlier, and m5-rc14. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a specially crafted BMP image file containing a negative offset in its header. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is an ExploitDB entry for this vulnerability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= m3-rc37aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:android_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
m5-rc14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:android_sdk:m5-rc14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-31308 · Mar 4, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0487 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

android-developers.blogspot.com / 2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html
securityreason.com / securityalert/3727
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/40999
coresecurity.com
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/489135/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28006