DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4170

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-4170
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4170.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4170
Upstream
Published
2022-12-09T18:15:20.327Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:16:02.407091Z
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"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4170.json"

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

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4170.json"

Debian:14 / 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

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4170.json"