CVE-2006-1168 (GCVE-0-2006-1168)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-08-14 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 17:03
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/21437 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28315 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-03.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:140 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22296 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9373 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19455 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100158840 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141728 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/21434 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1149 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/21467 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-226.htm x_refsource_CONFIRM
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SGI
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0663.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3234 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0810.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728536 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/22377 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/21427 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016836 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/22036 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/21880 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:129 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
Impacted products
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