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CVE-2006-1168 Detail

Current 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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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Hyperlink Resource
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/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9373

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-1168
NVD Published Date:
08/14/2006
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
Silicon Graphics (SGI)