Alpine: multiple hylafax packages: security update to 6.0.6-r4 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400636

Description

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

- HylaFAX 6.0.6 and HylaFAX+ 5.6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a dial-in session
that provides a FAX page with the JPEG bit enabled, which is mishandled in FaxModem::writeECMData() in the
faxd/CopyQuality.c++ file. (CVE-2018-17141)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400636

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: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17141

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: 10/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17141

Detections

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