Debian/ncompress: unknown

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 l

Action: Upgrade ncompress to 4.2.4-16 or later.

Affected

Fixed versions

Sources

• osv: DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1168#Debian:14/ncompress
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-1168

published 2006-08-14T20:04:00Z · modified 2026-10-22T23:47:22.683663730Z · JSON