CVE-2005-0638

N/A Unknown

Published: March 02, 2005 Modified: April 16, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79762

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/14459

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/14462

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-134_RHSA-2005-332.pdf

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-695

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.osvdb.org/14365

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-332.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433935/30/5010/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12712

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10898

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79762