FKIE_CVE-2022-4170

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-12-09 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:20
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The rxvt-unicode package is vulnerable to a remote code execution, in the Perl background extension, when an attacker can control the data written to the user's terminal and certain options are set.
References
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
rxvt-unicode_project rxvt-unicode 9.25
rxvt-unicode_project rxvt-unicode 9.26
fedoraproject extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux 8.0
fedoraproject fedora 37
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