Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-1168: ncompress: Buffer Underflow
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
08/14/2006
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
10/29/2021
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.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-arch-ncompress
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-apps-busybox
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