Alpine: multiple zlib packages: security update to 1.2.12-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409124

Description

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

- zlib through 1.2.12 has a heap-based buffer over-read or buffer overflow in inflate in inflate.c via a
large gzip header extra field. NOTE: only applications that call inflateGetHeader are affected. Some
common applications bundle the affected zlib source code but may be unable to call inflateGetHeader (e.g.,
see the nodejs/node reference). (CVE-2022-37434)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 409124

Version: Revision 1.46

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/6/2022

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: 96.95

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-37434

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-37434

Detections

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