Alpine: multiple libxml2 packages, multiple py3-libxml2 packages: security update to 2.9.4-r3 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400877

Description

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

- libxml2 2.9.4, when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL
pointer dereference) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: The maintainer states "I would disagree of a CVE
with the Recover parsing option which should only be used for manual recovery at least for XML parser.
(CVE-2017-5969)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400877

Version: Revision 1.33

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: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5969

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5969

BID: 96188

Detections

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