{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2006-08-08T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ncompress: .bss buffer underflow in decompression",
    "id" : "201919",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=201919"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy (Google Security Team) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2006-09-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2006:0663",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "ncompress-0:4.2.4-39.rhel3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2006-09-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2006:0663",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "ncompress-0:4.2.4-43.rhel4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2012-02-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0308",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "busybox-1:1.2.0-13.el5",
    "impact" : "low"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2012-06-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0810",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "busybox-1:1.15.1-15.el6",
    "impact" : "low"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "busybox",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "impact" : "low"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ncompress",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ncompress",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-1168\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1168" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2006-1168",
  "csaw" : false
}