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Alpine: multiple perl-cryptx packages: security update to 0.079-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424388

Description

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

 - In LibTomCrypt through 1.18.2, the der_decode_utf8_string function (in der_decode_utf8_string.c) does not
 properly detect certain invalid UTF-8 sequences. This allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial
 of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) or read information from other memory locations via carefully
 crafted DER-encoded data. (CVE-2019-17362)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-17362

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 424388

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17362

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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: 10/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17362