Bzip2 Parsing Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Lexmark Perspective Document Filters

CVE-2016-4336 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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