Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-4170
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 | |
| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 1 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1