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CVE-2005-0638

Published: Mar 02, 2005 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0638
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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 Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
XliXli1.14 (including)1.14 (including)
XliXli1.15 (including)1.15 (including)
XliXli1.16 (including)1.16 (including)
XliXli1.17 (including)1.17 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3RedHatxloadimage-0:4.1-34.RHEL3*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatxloadimage-0:4.1-34.RHEL4*
XliUbuntudapper*
XliUbuntudevel*
XliUbuntuedgy*
XliUbuntufeisty*
XloadimageUbuntudapper*
XloadimageUbuntudevel*
XloadimageUbuntuedgy*
XloadimageUbuntufeisty*

References

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