CVE-2006-1168
Published Aug 14, 2006
Last updated a year ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ncompress:ncompress:4.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "4D0FDFAB-53CE-409D-9E97-14A1E50CEBED"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]