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CVE-2005-0638

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2005-03-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Xli XliAltlinux Alt LinuxSuse Suse Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References