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CVE-2016-4336

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected products

• Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters: all versions

References

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

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