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Alpine: qt5-qtwebengine: security update to 5.15.3_git20211112-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406843

Description

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

 - There is a flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality of libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker
 who is able to supply a crafted file to be processed by an application linked with the affected
 functionality of libxml2 could trigger an out-of-bounds read. The most likely impact of this flaw is to
 application availability, with some potential impact to confidentiality and integrity if an attacker is
 able to use memory information to further exploit the application. (CVE-2021-3517)

 - A flaw was found in libxml2. Exponential entity expansion attack its possible bypassing all existing
 protection mechanisms and leading to denial of service. (CVE-2021-3541)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-3517

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-3541

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 406843

Version: Revision 1.29

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 2/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3517

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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: 5/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3517, CVE-2021-3541