Alpine: multiple file packages, multiple libmagic packages: security update to 5.37-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400433

Description

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

- cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c in file through 5.37 does not restrict the number of CDF_VECTOR elements,
which allows a heap-based buffer overflow (4-byte out-of-bounds write). (CVE-2019-18218)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400433

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18218

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: 10/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18218

Detections

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