CVE-2016-4336: Buffer Overflow

First published: Fri Jan 06 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cret@cert.org

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