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xli, xloadimage — security advisory
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.
- Products
- xli, xloadimage
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.17.0-18, 4.1-14.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2005-0638
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0638
xli
Fixed versions: 1.17.0-18
xli
Fixed versions: 1.17.0-18
xli
Fixed versions: 1.17.0-18
xloadimage
Fixed versions: 4.1-14.1
xloadimage
Fixed versions: 4.1-14.1
xloadimage
Fixed versions: 4.1-14.1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T03:47:40.781755701Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 412115,
"published_at": "2005-03-02T05:00:00+00:00"
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