CVE-2006-1168

CVE Details

Release Date:

2006-08-14

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.

See more information about CVE-2006-1168 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	7.5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (ncompress)	ELSA-2006-0663	2006-11-30
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ncompress)	ELSA-2006-0663	2006-11-30
Oracle Linux version 5 (busybox)	ELSA-2012-0308	2012-03-01
Oracle Linux version 6 (busybox)	ELSA-2012-0810	2012-06-27

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