Alpine: multiple libmspack packages: security update to 0.7.1_alpha-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405233

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. There is an off-by-one error in the
CHM PMGI/PMGL chunk number validity checks, which could lead to denial of service (uninitialized data
dereference and application crash). (CVE-2018-14679)

- An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. It does not reject blank CHM
filenames. (CVE-2018-14680)

- An issue was discovered in kwajd_read_headers in mspack/kwajd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. Bad KWAJ
file header extensions could cause a one or two byte overwrite. (CVE-2018-14681)

- An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. There is an off-by-one error in the
TOLOWER() macro for CHM decompression. (CVE-2018-14682)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405233

Version: Revision 1.26

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 12/4/2025

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-2018-14682

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: 7/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14679, CVE-2018-14680, CVE-2018-14681, CVE-2018-14682

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