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Alpine: lz4: security update to 1.9.1-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405491

Description

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

 - LZ4 before 1.9.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in LZ4_write32 (related to LZ4_compress_destSize),
 affecting applications that call LZ4_compress_fast with a large input. (This issue can also lead to data
 corruption.) NOTE: the vendor states "only a few specific / uncommon usages of the API are at risk."
 (CVE-2019-17543)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-17543

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405491

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: 6.9

Percentile: 96.99

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-2019-17543

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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: 10/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17543