Some vulnerabilities have been reported in xli, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An input validation error in the handling of compressed images can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted filename containing shell meta characters.

2) A boundary error in the "facesLoad()" function when handling Faces Project images can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and potentially execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted image.

3) Some errors in the validation of image properties may potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Solution
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the CVS repository.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team

2) Originally discovered by:
* zen-parse

Reported in xli by:
* Rob Holland, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team

3) Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

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

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