GSD-2006-1168

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19
Details
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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CVE-2006-1168
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      "lastModifiedDate": "2017-10-11T01:30Z",
      "publishedDate": "2006-08-14T20:04Z"
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