National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1168

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1149

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1149

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21437

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21437

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21434

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21434

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:140

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:140

External Source: FRSIRT

Name: ADV-2006-3234

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3234

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21427

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21427

External Source: MISC

Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141728

Hyperlink:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141728

External Source: XF

Name: ncompress-decompress-underflow(28315)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28315

External Source: BID

Name: 19455

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19455

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2006:0663

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0663.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2006:020

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:140

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:140

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-226.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-226.htm

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016836

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016836

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200610-03

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-03.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22377

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22377

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22296

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22296

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22036

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22036

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21880

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21880

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21467

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21467

External Source: SGI

Name: 20060901-01-P

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc