CVE-2006-1168
N/A
Published: August 14, 2006 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:22 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNcompress
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (25)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SGI
Source: bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.ascx_refsource_MISC
Source: bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141728x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100158840Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0810.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
http://secunia.com/advisories/21427Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
http://secunia.com/advisories/21434Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
http://secunia.com/advisories/21437Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
http://secunia.com/advisories/21467Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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