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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-4170: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-4170: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/09/2022
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

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)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-rxvt-unicode

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