CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
76.2%
A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team
identified a flaw in the handling of image filenames by xv.
Successful exploitation would require a victim to process
a specially crafted image with a malformed filename,
potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.