debian · CVE-2005-0638

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:59:54 GMT

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CVE-2005-0638 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (xli, xloadimage), 10 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 10.

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.

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