CVE-2005-0638

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.

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79762Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14459Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14462Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xmlVendor Advisory
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-134_RHSA-2005-332.pdf
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-695Vendor Advisory
• http://www.osvdb.org/14365
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-332.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433935/30/5010/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12712
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10898
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79762Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14459Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14462Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xmlVendor Advisory
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-134_RHSA-2005-332.pdf
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-695Vendor Advisory
• http://www.osvdb.org/14365
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-332.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433935/30/5010/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12712
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10898

Published

Mar 2, 2005

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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