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CVE-2008-1928

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1928 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Imager versions 0.42 through 0.63. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted image where the input and output channel counts differ during a fill operation. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a medium-severity vulnerability that can be exploited remotely with low complexity, leading to system crashes. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.42CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imager:imager:0.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.43CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imager:imager:0.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.43_03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imager:imager:0.43_03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.44CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imager:imager:0.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.44_01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imager:imager:0.44_01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0167 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-1928Moderate

perl-Imager: buffer overflow when using an image based fill on a double precision image

Apr 22, 2008

References

imager.perl.org / i/release064/Imager_0_64
rt.cpan.org / Public/Bug/Display.html
secunia.com / advisories/30011
secunia.com / advisories/30030
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41986
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00569.html
securityfocus.com / bid/28980
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1387/references