CVE-2022-24130

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-01-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-120

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 products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35
Invisible-Island Xterm: through 370

References

https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00007.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BP5Y4O7WBNLV24D22E6LE7RQFYOUVD2U/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4CWYYEBT6AJRJBBQU2KLUOQDHRM7WAV/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-22
https://twitter.com/nickblack/status/1487731459398025216
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/30/2
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/30/3
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00007.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BP5Y4O7WBNLV24D22E6LE7RQFYOUVD2U/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4CWYYEBT6AJRJBBQU2KLUOQDHRM7WAV/

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