CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0638

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-03-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-03-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

xloadimage before 4.1-r2, and xli before 1.17, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in filenames for compressed images, which are not properly quoted when calling the gunzip command.

Affected configurations

• xli xli 1.14 • xli xli 1.15 • xli xli 1.16 • xli xli 1.17 • altlinux alt linux 2.3 • suse suse linux 1.0 • suse suse linux 2.0 • suse suse linux 3.0 • suse suse linux 4.0 • suse suse linux 4.2 • suse suse linux 4.3 • suse suse linux 4.4 • suse suse linux 4.4.1 • suse suse linux 5.0 • suse suse linux 5.1 • suse suse linux 5.2 • suse suse linux 5.3 • suse suse linux 6.0 • suse suse linux 6.1 • suse suse linux 6.2 • suse suse linux 6.3 • suse suse linux 6.4 • suse suse linux 7.0 • suse suse linux 7.1 • suse suse linux 7.2 • suse suse linux 7.3 • suse suse linux 8.0 • suse suse linux 8.1 • suse suse linux 8.2 • suse suse linux 9.0 • suse suse linux 9.1 • suse suse linux 9.2 • suse suse linux 9.3

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