FKIE_CVE-2006-1168
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-08-14 20:04 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:22
Severity
Summary
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
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