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CVE-2006-1168

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2006-08-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Ncompress Ncompress

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References