CVE-2006-1168
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2006-08-14 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
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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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.5 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| 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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