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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 6.06 | noarch | ncompress | < 4.2.4-15sarge2build0.6.06.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 6.10 | noarch | ncompress | < 4.2.4-15sarge2 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | ncompress | < 4.2.4-15sarge2 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 7.10 | noarch | ncompress | < 4.2.4-15sarge2 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | ncompress | < 4.2.4-15sarge2 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 8.10 | noarch | ncompress | < 4.2.4-15sarge2 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 9.04 | noarch | ncompress | < 4.2.4-15sarge2 | UNKNOWN |