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CVE-2005-0638 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (xli, xloadimage), 8 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 6, needs-triage 2.
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.