Vulnerability CVE-2006-1168


Published: 2006-08-14   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Ncompress -> Ncompress 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1149
http://secunia.com/advisories/21437
http://secunia.com/advisories/21434
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728536
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3234
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:129
http://secunia.com/advisories/21427
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0810.html
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9373
http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100158840
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141728
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28315
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19455
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0663.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:140
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-226.htm
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016836
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-03.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/22377
http://secunia.com/advisories/22296
http://secunia.com/advisories/22036
http://secunia.com/advisories/21880
http://secunia.com/advisories/21467
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc

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