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Alpine: libbz2, multiple bzip2 packages: security update to 1.0.6-r7

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423749

Description

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

 - BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many
 selectors. (CVE-2019-12900)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-12900

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423749

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

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: 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-2019-12900

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12900

IAVA: 2020-A-0482