Alpine: multiple libxslt packages: security update to 1.1.29-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400898

Description

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

- The xsltAddTextString function in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.29, as used in Blink in Google Chrome prior
to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android, lacked a check for integer
overflow during a size calculation, which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory
write via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2017-5029)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400898

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: 6.9

Percentile: 97.36

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5029

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 3/27/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5029

BID: 96767

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