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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: sgi
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T17:03:28.264Z
Reserved: 2006-03-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-1168

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-08-14T20:04:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2006-1168
