Alpine: multiple go packages: security update to 1.16.2-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404750

Description

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

- encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader
(for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element. This can occur in the Decode,
DecodeElement, or Skip method. (CVE-2021-27918)

- archive/zip in Go 1.16.x before 1.16.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) upon
attempted use of the Reader.Open API for a ZIP archive in which ../ occurs at the beginning of any
filename. (CVE-2021-27919)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404750

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

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-2021-27918

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: 3/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27918, CVE-2021-27919

IAVB: 2021-B-0040-S

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