VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-1168

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability5.82%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-08-14
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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