Alpine: multiple libbsd packages: security update to 0.8.1-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400998

Description

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

- Off-by-one vulnerability in the fgetwln function in libbsd before 0.8.2 allows attackers to have
unspecified impact via unknown vectors, which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2016-2090)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400998

Version: Revision 1.28

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2090

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: 8/28/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2090

BID: 82239

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