Alpine: multiple grep packages: security update to 2.21-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401060

Description

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

- The bmexec_trans function in kwset.c in grep 2.19 through 2.21 allows local users to cause a denial of
service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash) via crafted input when using the -F option. (CVE-2015-1345)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 401060

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1345

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1345

BID: 72281

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