Alpine: multiple postsrsd packages: security update to 1.6-r3 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400302

Description

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

- srs2.c in PostSRSd before 1.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via
a long timestamp tag in an SRS address. (CVE-2020-35573)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=15bc136e03dc39f28cdebdad6b3e048be6eb19ba

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=29b2633b58a3b3257a031629b270c4194ff39222

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400302

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

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: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35573

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: 12/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35573