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TITLE:
Xloadimage Compressed Images Filename Shell Command Injection

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14462

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14462/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Xloadimage 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/4733/

DESCRIPTION:
Tavis Ormandy has reported a vulnerability in Xloadimage, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the
handling of compressed images. This can be exploited to inject
arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted filename containing
shell meta characters.

SOLUTION:
Properly escape shell meta characters in filenames for compressed
images before calling Xloadimage.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml

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