Alpine: multiple clamav packages, multiple freshclam packages: security update to 0.100.1-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 403838

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.
(CVE-2017-16932)

- ClamAV before 0.100.1 has an HWP integer overflow with a resultant infinite loop via a crafted Hangul Word
Processor file. This is in parsehwp3_paragraph() in libclamav/hwp.c. (CVE-2018-0360)

- ClamAV before 0.100.1 lacks a PDF object length check, resulting in an unreasonably long time to parse a
relatively small file. (CVE-2018-0361)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-16932

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-0360

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-0361

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403838

Version: Revision 1.29

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16932

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16932, CVE-2018-0360, CVE-2018-0361