CVE-2022-4170

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - patrick@puiterwijk.org

Published

2022-12-09

Last modified

2025-04-14

Weaknesses

CWE-74

Affected products

• Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux (Fedoraproject)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Rxvt-unicode (Rxvt-unicode Project)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1