Alpine: libxml2: security update to 2.9.9-r3

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405430

Description

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

- xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to
newDoc->oldNs. (CVE-2019-19956)

- GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at
libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e. (CVE-2020-24977)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 405430

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: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24977

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19956, CVE-2020-24977

Detections

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