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Alpine: libxslt: security update to 1.1.31-r2

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405440

Description

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

 - In xsltCopyText in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a pointer variable isn't reset under certain
 circumstances. If the relevant memory area happened to be freed and reused in a certain way, a bounds
 check could fail and memory outside a buffer could be written to, or uninitialized data could be
 disclosed. (CVE-2019-18197)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-18197

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405440

Version: Revision 1.26

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: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 10/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18197