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Vulnerability · Published Jan 31, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-24130

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the xterm package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.7% (higher than 77% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.7%top 23.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

xterm through Patch 370, when Sixel support is enabled, allows attackers to trigger a buffer overflow in set_sixel in graphics_sixel.c via crafted text.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9xterm366-12.el9_6ALSA-2025:14075
AlmaLinux:9xterm-resize366-12.el9_6ALSA-2025:14075
Alpine:v3.20xterm371-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-24130
Alpine:v3.21xterm371-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-24130
Alpine:v3.22xterm371-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-24130
Alpine:v3.23xterm371-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-24130
Alpine:v3.24xterm371-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-24130
Debian:12xterm370-2DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24130
Debian:13xterm370-2DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24130
Debian:14xterm370-2DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24130
Rocky Linux:9xterm0:366-12.el9_6RLSA-2025:14075
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSxtermno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24130
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSxtermno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24130
Ubuntu:25.10xtermno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24130
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSxtermno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24130
Ubuntu:26.10xtermno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24130

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References