7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.103 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.0%
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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | ncompress | < 4.2.4-16 | ncompress_4.2.4-16_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | ncompress | < 4.2.4-16 | ncompress_4.2.4-16_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | ncompress | < 4.2.4-16 | ncompress_4.2.4-16_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | ncompress | < 4.2.4-16 | ncompress_4.2.4-16_all.deb |