Alpine: multiple binutils packages: security update to 2.40-r5 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400070

Description

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

- Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64. (CVE-2023-1579)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400070

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2023

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: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1579

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1579

Detections

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