CVE-2005-0758 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2005-0758?

CVE-2005-0758 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 May 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

zgrep in gzip before 1.3.5 does not properly sanitize arguments, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via filenames that are injected into a sed script.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0758?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Gnu Gzip.

How do I fix CVE-2005-0758?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2005-0758 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-0758 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0758, GHSA-gc4q-mf7x-jrrp.