CVE-2006-1168 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141728 http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100158840 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0810.html http://secunia.com/advisories/21427 http://secunia.com/advisories/21434 http://secunia.com/advisories/21437 http://secunia.com/advisories/21467 http://secunia.com/advisories/21880 http://secunia.com/advisories/22036 http://secunia.com/advisories/22296 http://secunia.com/advisories/22377 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-03.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1016836 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-226.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1149 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:140 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:129 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0663.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19455 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3234 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728536 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28315 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9373