CVE-2022-4170

Summary

CVECVE-2022-4170
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-09 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-14 19:22:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Rxvt-unicode Project Rxvt-unicode 9.25 All All All
Application Rxvt-unicode Project Rxvt-unicode 9.26 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2151597 – (CVE-2022-4170) CVE-2022-4170 rxvt-unicode: remote code execution via background OSC MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
oss-security - CVE-2022-4170: rxvt-unicode code execution via background OSC MISC www.openwall.com
rxvt-unicode: Arbitrary Code Execution (GLSA 202310-20) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 503266 Alpine Linux Security Update for rxvt-unicode
  • 506238 Alpine Linux Security Update for rxvt-unicode
  • 691018 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for rxvt (5b2eac07-8b4d-11ed-8b23-a0f3c100ae18)
  • 710778 Gentoo Linux rxvt-unicode Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability (GLSA 202310-20)

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