Alpine: multiple cups packages, ipptool: security update to 2.4.6-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401367

Description

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

- Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and
libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. This issue has been
fixed in CUPS version 2.4.7, released in September of 2023. (CVE-2023-4504)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401367

Version: Revision 1.41

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/21/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4504

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/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: 9/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4504

Detections

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