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Alpine: libcurl, multiple curl packages: security update to 8.3.0-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423830

Description

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

 - When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that they can be accessed later
 via the libcurl headers API. However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would
 accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series of headers and eventually
 cause curl to run out of heap memory. (CVE-2023-38039)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-38039

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423830

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 5/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

Percentile: 96.81

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-2023-38039

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: 9/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38039

IAVA: 2023-A-0485-S, 2023-A-0531-S