Alpine: procmail: security update to 3.22-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401164

Description

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

- Heap-based buffer overflow in formisc.c in formail in procmail 3.22 allows remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted email header, related to
"unbalanced quotes." (CVE-2014-3618)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401164

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: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3618

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3618

BID: 69573

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