FKIE_CVE-2005-0638
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-03-02 05:00 - Updated: 2026-04-16 00:27
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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