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FreeBSD Ports: xli
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
FreeBSD Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
6 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following packages are affected: xli xloadimage CVE-2005-0638 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.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79762 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/310d0087-0fde-4929-a41f-96f17c5adffe.html