DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0638

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0638

    Published: 2 Mar 2005Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2005-0638

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-0638

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xli

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/xli?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.17.0-18

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High