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Alpine: libarchive: security update to 3.2.0-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405114

Description

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

 - Heap-based buffer overflow in the zip_read_mac_metadata function in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in
 libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted entry-size values in
 a ZIP archive. (CVE-2016-1541)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-1541

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405114

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: 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-2016-1541

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 5/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1541

BID: 89355