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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2005-3178 json

Buffer overflow in xloadimage 4.1 and earlier, and xli, might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long title name…

published 2005-10-07 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-3177

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.0%
EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer overflow in xloadimage 4.1 and earlier, and xli, might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long title name in a NIFF file, which triggers the overflow during (1) zoom, (2) reduce, or (3) rotate operations.

Patch / fix

  • xli Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.17.0-20
  • xloadimage Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.1-15

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3178

  • xloadimage RHEL 3 4.1-36.RHEL3
  • xloadimage RHEL 4 4.1-36.RHEL4

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:802

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-3178 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 xloadimage 4.1-36.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 xloadimage 4.1-36.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 xloadimage 4.1-36.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 xloadimage 4.1-36.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 xloadimage 4.1-36.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 xloadimage 4.1-36.RHEL4
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 xloadimage 4.1-36.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 xloadimage 4.1-36.RHEL4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:802

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.