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Alpine: libarchive: security update to 3.2.2-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405117

Description

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

 - An error in the lha_read_file_header_1() function (archive_read_support_format_lha.c) in libarchive 3.2.2
 allows remote attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds read memory access and subsequently cause a crash via
 a specially crafted archive. (CVE-2017-5601)

 - libarchive 3.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xml_data heap-based buffer over-
 read and application crash) via a crafted xar archive, related to the mishandling of empty strings in the
 atol8 function in archive_read_support_format_xar.c. (CVE-2017-14166)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-14166

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-5601

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405117

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: 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-2017-5601

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: 1/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14166, CVE-2017-5601

BID: 100841, 95837