CVE-2006-1168

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.

References

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141728

http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100158840

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0810.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/21427

http://secunia.com/advisories/21434

http://secunia.com/advisories/21437

http://secunia.com/advisories/21467

http://secunia.com/advisories/21880

http://secunia.com/advisories/22036

http://secunia.com/advisories/22296

http://secunia.com/advisories/22377

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-03.xml

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016836

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-226.htm

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1149

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:140

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:129

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0663.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19455

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3234

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728536

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28315

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9373

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2