CVE-2005-0638 describes a command injection vulnerability in xloadimage before 4.1-r2 and xli before 1.17. Attackers can execute arbitrary commands by crafting filenames for compressed images that contain shell metacharacters, which are not properly sanitized before being passed to the gunzip command. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity with network access, low attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xli:xli:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xli:xli:1.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xli:xli:1.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xli:xli:1.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:altlinux:alt_linux:2.3:*:compact:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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