CVE-2022-4170

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4170
Import Source
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JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-4170
Related
Published
2022-12-09T18:15:20Z
Modified
2025-04-14T20:47:58.578054Z
Downstream
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Debian:12 / rxvt-unicode

Package

Name
rxvt-unicode
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/rxvt-unicode?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

9.*

9.30-2
9.31-1
9.31-2
9.31-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / rxvt-unicode

Package

Name
rxvt-unicode
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/rxvt-unicode?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.31-1

Affected versions

9.*

9.30-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
4a3750edbb9626312bfea9449eb568c2a3986182
Last affected
4cbc689ec6ff9174e2d28c12f5777e224b2c79ba
Last affected
963a50ca86662feb39951be3cd601a305aef6a8a

Affected versions

rxvt-unicode-1.*

rxvt-unicode-1.2
rxvt-unicode-1.3
rxvt-unicode-1.9

rxvt-unicode-2.*

rxvt-unicode-2.0
rxvt-unicode-2.1
rxvt-unicode-2.2
rxvt-unicode-2.3
rxvt-unicode-2.4
rxvt-unicode-2.5
rxvt-unicode-2.7
rxvt-unicode-2.8

rxvt-unicode-3.*

rxvt-unicode-3.0
rxvt-unicode-3.2
rxvt-unicode-3.3
rxvt-unicode-3.4
rxvt-unicode-3.5
rxvt-unicode-3.6
rxvt-unicode-3.7
rxvt-unicode-3.8

rxvt-unicode-4.*

rxvt-unicode-4.0
rxvt-unicode-4.1
rxvt-unicode-4.2
rxvt-unicode-4.3
rxvt-unicode-4.4
rxvt-unicode-4.6
rxvt-unicode-4.7
rxvt-unicode-4.8
rxvt-unicode-4.9

rxvt-unicode-5.*

rxvt-unicode-5.0
rxvt-unicode-5.1
rxvt-unicode-5.2
rxvt-unicode-5.3
rxvt-unicode-5.4
rxvt-unicode-5.5
rxvt-unicode-5.7
rxvt-unicode-5.8
rxvt-unicode-5.9

rxvt-unicode-6.*

rxvt-unicode-6.0
rxvt-unicode-6.1
rxvt-unicode-6.2
rxvt-unicode-6.3

rxvt-unicode-7.*

rxvt-unicode-7.0
rxvt-unicode-7.1
rxvt-unicode-7.2
rxvt-unicode-7.3
rxvt-unicode-7.3a
rxvt-unicode-7.4
rxvt-unicode-7.5
rxvt-unicode-7.6
rxvt-unicode-7.7
rxvt-unicode-7.8
rxvt-unicode-7.9

rxvt-unicode-8.*

rxvt-unicode-8.0