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Alpine: curl: security update to 7.49.1-r3

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 403950

Description

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

 - Multiple integer overflows in the (1) curl_escape, (2) curl_easy_escape, (3) curl_unescape, and (4)
 curl_easy_unescape functions in libcurl before 7.50.3 allow attackers to have unspecified impact via a
 string of length 0xffffffff, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2016-7167)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-7167

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 403950

Version: Revision 1.25

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7167

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7167

BID: 92975