Alpine: agetty-openrc, multiple openrc packages: security update to 0.44.6-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400099

Description

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)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400099

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

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: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42341

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42341

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