CVE-2005-0638 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0638
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA14459 Secunia Advisory: SA14462 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-332.html OSVDB 14365 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/433935/30/5010/threaded DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-695 CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79762 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-134_RHSA-2005-332.pdf BID 12712

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