CVE-2022-4170

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    CVE-2022-4170

    Published: 9 Dec 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    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: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/4xxx/CVE-2022-4170.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4170, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 4cbc689ec6ff9174e2d28c12f5777e224b2c79ba
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    9.25

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
    None
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    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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