Upstream information

CVE-2022-4170 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (CISA-ADP) National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 9.8 9.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1206069 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4
  • rxvt-unicode >= 9.31-bp154.2.9.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2023-306
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5
  • rxvt-unicode >= 9.31-bp155.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2023-306
openSUSE Leap 15.4
  • rxvt-unicode >= 9.31-bp154.2.9.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2023-306
openSUSE Leap 15.5
  • rxvt-unicode >= 9.31-bp155.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2023-306
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • rxvt-unicode >= 9.31-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-13323

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Dec 5 15:00:03 2022
CVE page last modified: Sun Apr 20 17:48:38 2025