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Alpine: multiple rpcbind packages: security update to 0.2.4-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424442

Description

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

 - rpcbind through 0.2.4, LIBTIRPC through 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-rc through 1.0.2-rc3, and NTIRPC through 1.4.3 do
 not consider the maximum RPC data size during memory allocation for XDR strings, which allows remote
 attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption with no subsequent free) via a crafted UDP
 packet to port 111, aka rpcbomb. (CVE-2017-8779)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-8779

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424442

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: 5.7

Percentile: 97

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-2017-8779

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: 5/3/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8779

BID: 98325