CVE-2016-4336

An exploitable out-of-bounds write exists in the Bzip2 parsing of the Lexmark Perspective Document Filters conversion functionality. A crafted Bzip2 document can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow causing an out-of-bounds write which under the right circumstance could potentially be leveraged by an attacker to gain arbitrary code execution.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cret@cert.org

Published

2017-01-06

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

• Perceptive Document Filters (Lexmark)

References

• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0173/