Alpine: multiple libarchive packages: security update to 3.1.2-r2 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401043

Description

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

- Heap-based buffer overflow in the zip_read_mac_metadata function in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in
libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted entry-size values in
a ZIP archive. (CVE-2016-1541)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401043

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

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-2016-1541

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: 5/30/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1541

BID: 89355

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