CVE-2005-0638 Affecting xli package, versions <1.17.0-18


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-XLI-287864
  • published2 Mar 2005
  • disclosed2 Mar 2005

Introduced: 2 Mar 2005

CVE-2005-0638  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 xli to version 1.17.0-18 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xli package and not the xli package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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