Alpine: multiple apr packages: security update to 1.4.5-r3 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401297

Description

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

- tables/apr_hash.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library through 1.4.5 computes hash values without
restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers
to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash
table. (CVE-2012-0840)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401297

Version: Revision 1.25

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: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0840

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0840

BID: 51917

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