cve/2006/CVE-2006-1168.md

### [CVE-2006-1168](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1168)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9373

#### Github
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