CVE-2005-0638
N/A
Published: March 4, 2005 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsSUSE LinuxAltlinuxXli
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (11)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79762Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/14459Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/14462Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-134_RHSA-2005-332.pdfVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-695Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-332.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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