CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-1168

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-08-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-08-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• ncompress ncompress 4.2.4

References