What is CVE-2016-5646?

CVE-2016-5646 is a high-severity vulnerability in Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-01-06.

How severe is CVE-2016-5646?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters

CVE-2016-5646

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.020 (79.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters — versions 11.2.0.1732
Lexmark Perceptive_document_filters — versions 11.2.0.1732

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cret@cert.org (Technical Description, Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5646?: CVE-2016-5646 is a high-severity vulnerability in Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-01-06.
How severe is CVE-2016-5646?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.