Alpine: multiple firefox packages: security update to 38.6.0-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400995

Description

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

- The SillMap::readFace function in FeatureMap.cpp in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4, as used in Mozilla
Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, mishandles a return value, which allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (missing initialization, NULL pointer dereference, and application
crash) via a crafted Graphite smart font. (CVE-2016-1523)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400995

Version: Revision 1.29

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-1523

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: 2/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1523

BID: 82991

IAVA: 2016-A-0033-S

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