CVE-2006-1168

NameCVE-2006-1168
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1149-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ncompress (PTS)bullseye4.2.4.6-4fixed
bookworm4.2.4.6-6fixed
sid, trixie5.0-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ncompresssourcesarge4.2.4-15sarge2DSA-1149-1
ncompresssource(unstable)4.2.4-16

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