CVE-2005-0638
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 3.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 3.6% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2005-0639)
- Published
- March 2, 2005
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2005-0639 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- altlinux / alt linux
- altlinux / alt linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
- suse / suse linux
and 6 more…
Certified products that may be affected
4 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise OpenSSL 1 Cryptographic Module - SUSE LLC - FIPS 140 5238 - active
- SUSE Linux Enterprise OpenSSL 3 Cryptographic Module - SUSE LLC - FIPS 140 5096 - active
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 - SUSE LLC - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-1214-2025 - active
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server V8, Service Pack 3, RC4, with certification-sles-eal3 package - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0234-2004 - archived
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79762(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14459(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14462(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml(Vendor Advisory)
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-134_RHSA-2005-332.pdf
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-695(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/14365
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-332.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433935/30/5010/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12712
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10898
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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