CVE-2022-4170

critical

Description

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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-12-09

Updated: 2023-11-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical