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Alpine: expat: security update to 2.1.1-r2

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404262

Description

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

 - The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows
 remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML
 data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.
 (CVE-2016-4472)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-4472

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404262

Version: Revision 1.28

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: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 6/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4472

BID: 91528