Alpine: multiple libgcrypt packages: security update to 1.8.4-r1 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400556

Description

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

- In Libgcrypt 1.8.4, the C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack
because physical addresses are available to other processes. (The C implementation is used on platforms
where an assembly-language implementation is unavailable.) NOTE: the vendor's position is that the issue
report cannot be validated because there is no description of an attack (CVE-2019-12904)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400556

Version: Revision 1.35

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12904

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12904

Detections

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