Alpine: multiple libexif packages: security update to 0.6.21-r2 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400639

Description

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

- libexif through 0.6.21 is vulnerable to out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in exif_data_save_data_entry
function in libexif/exif-data.c caused by improper length computation of the allocated data of an
ExifMnote entry which can cause denial-of-service or possibly information disclosure. (CVE-2017-7544)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400639

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7544

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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: 10/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7544

Detections

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