Alpine: multiple libgit2 packages: security update to 0.27.3-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400666

Description

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

- In ng_pkt in transports/smart_pkt.c in libgit2 before 0.26.6 and 0.27.x before 0.27.4, a remote attacker
can send a crafted smart-protocol "ng" packet that lacks a '\0' byte to trigger an out-of-bounds read that
leads to DoS. (CVE-2018-15501)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400666

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15501

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: 10/3/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15501

Detections

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