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CVE-2006-1168

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
9.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
9.814

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
(RHSA-2012:0308) Low: busybox security and bug fix update busybox-1.2.0-13.el5.i386.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2012:0308) Low: busybox security and bug fix update busybox-1.2.0-13.el5.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2012:0308) Low: busybox security and bug fix update busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-13.el5.i386.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2012:0308) Low: busybox security and bug fix update busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-13.el5.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234