checkpath in OpenRC before 0.44.7 uses the direct output of strlen() to allocate strings, which does not account for the '\0' byte at the end of the string. This results in memory corruption. CVE-2021-42341 was introduced in git commit 63db2d99e730547339d1bdd28e8437999c380cae, which was introduced as part of OpenRC 0.44.0 development.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - checkpath in OpenRC before 0.44.7 uses the direct output of strlen() to allocate strings, which does not
    account for the '\0' byte at the end of the string. This results in memory corruption. CVE-2021-42341 was
    introduced in git commit 63db2d99e730547339d1bdd28e8437999c380cae, which was introduced as part of OpenRC
    0.44.0 development. (CVE-2021-42341)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
424261	Alpine: agetty-openrc, multiple openrc packages: security update to 0.44.6-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
424261	Alpine: agetty-openrc, multiple openrc packages: security update to 0.44.6-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
406026	Alpine: openrc: security update to 0.43.3-r2	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
406026	Alpine: openrc: security update to 0.43.3-r2	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
400099	Alpine: agetty-openrc, multiple openrc packages: security update to 0.44.6-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
400099	Alpine: agetty-openrc, multiple openrc packages: security update to 0.44.6-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2021-42341

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