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Alpine: libcurl, multiple curl packages: security update to 8.9.1-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423820

Description

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

 - libcurl's ASN1 parser code has the `GTime2str()` function, used for parsing an ASN.1 Generalized Time
 field. If given an syntactically incorrect field, the parser might end up using -1 for the length of the
 *time fraction*, leading to a `strlen()` getting performed on a pointer to a heap buffer area that is not
 (purposely) null terminated. This flaw most likely leads to a crash, but can also lead to heap contents
 getting returned to the application when
 [CURLINFO_CERTINFO](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLINFO_CERTINFO.html) is used. (CVE-2024-7264)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-7264

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423820

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 5

Percentile: 94.39

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7264

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7264

IAVA: 2024-A-0457-S