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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: sgi

Published: 2006-08-14T20:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2006-1168

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2023-11-07T01:58:32.137

Link: CVE-2006-1168

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2006-1168 - Bugzilla