Alpine: multiple libtasn1 packages: security update to 4.13-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400528

Description

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

- GNU Libtasn1-4.13 libtasn1-4.13 version libtasn1-4.13, libtasn1-4.12 contains a DoS, specifically CPU
usage will reach 100% when running asn1Paser against the POC due to an issue in
_asn1_expand_object_id(p_tree), after a long time, the program will be killed. This attack appears to be
exploitable via parsing a crafted file. (CVE-2018-1000654)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400528

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: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000654

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 7/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000654

BID: 105151

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