CVE-2006-1168

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Aug 14, 2006
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2006-1168: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix