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SUSE: CVE-2022-4170: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2022-4170: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/09/2022
Created
10/24/2023
Added
10/23/2023
Modified
10/23/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-rxvt-unicode

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