Alpine: multiple lz4 packages: security update to 1.9.3-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400015

Description

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

- There's a flaw in lz4. An attacker who submits a crafted file to an application linked with lz4 may be
able to trigger an integer overflow, leading to calling of memmove() on a negative size argument, causing
an out-of-bounds write and/or a crash. The greatest impact of this flaw is to availability, with some
potential impact to confidentiality and integrity as well. (CVE-2021-3520)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400015

Version: Revision 1.41

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3520

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 12/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3520

Detections

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