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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-0639 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:21:06.451Z

Reserved: 2005-03-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-0638

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-03-02T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-0638

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-0638 - Bugzilla

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