Alpine: multiple libarchive packages: security update to 3.5.2-r2 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400014

Description

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

- libarchive 3.4.1 through 3.5.1 has a use-after-free in copy_string (called from do_uncompress_block and
process_block). (CVE-2021-36976)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400014

Version: Revision 1.28

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/31/2022

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36976

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36976

Detections

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