Alpine: multiple libwebp packages: security update to 1.3.0-r2 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400075

Description

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

- There exists a use after free/double free in libwebp. An attacker can use the ApplyFiltersAndEncode()
function and loop through to free best.bw and assign best = trial pointer. The second loop will then
return 0 because of an Out of memory error in VP8 encoder, the pointer is still assigned to trial and the
AddressSanitizer will attempt a double free. (CVE-2023-1999)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400075

Version: Revision 1.38

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/24/2023

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1999

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: 5/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1999

Detections

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