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Alpine: expat: security update to 2.1.1-r1

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404261

Description

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

 - Expat allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute
 arbitrary code via a malformed input document, which triggers a buffer overflow. (CVE-2016-0718)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-0718

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 404261

Version: Revision 1.26

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 6/24/2026

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: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-0718

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: 5/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0718

BID: 90729