{"cve":"CVE-2006-1168","nvd":{"published":"2006-08-14T20:04:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:22:09.063","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc","http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141728","http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100158840","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0810.html","http://secunia.com/advisories/21427"],"products":["ncompress:ncompress"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:42:44.451428143+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2006-1168","score":0.05817,"percentile":0.93145,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}