Ncompress is a legacy file-compression utility with a narrow, historically significant footprint in Unix and Unix-like systems. The observed vulnerability surface centers on the compression tool itself and reflects the classification challenges inherent to older codebases where weakness specificity may be limited; current severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Ncompress over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (3 CVEs).
3 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2006-1168HIGH 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 | Aug 14, 2006 | 7.5 | 21 | NO | NO |
CVE-2001-1413HIGH Stack-based buffer overflow in the comprexx function for ncompress 4.2.4 and earlier, when used in situations that cross security boundaries (such as FTP server), may allow remote | Dec 23, 2004 | 7.5 | 21 | NO | NO |
ncompress 4.2.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files using (1) zdiff or (2) zcmp, a different vulnerability than CVE- | Sep 20, 2005 | 2.1 | 11 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (3 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Ncompress.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Ncompress — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.