Description
The decompress function in compress42.c in (1) ncompress 4.2.4 and (2) liblzw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow.
Published: 2006-08-14
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 9.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1149-1 New ncompress packages fix potential code execution
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-1172 The decompress function in compress42.c in (1) ncompress 4.2.4 and (2) liblzw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow.
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Ncompress Ncompress
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: sgi

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:03:28.264Z

Reserved: 2006-03-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-1168

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-08-14T20:04:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-1168

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2006-08-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-1168 - Bugzilla

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