CVE-2016-5646

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Compound Binary File Format (CBFF) parser functionality of Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters library. A specially crafted CBFF file can cause a code execution. An attacker can send a malformed file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters: 11.2.0.1732

References

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0185/
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0185/

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