debian · CVE-2006-1168

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:59:28 GMT

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CVE-2006-1168 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ncompress), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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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