Alpine: multiple tcpdump packages: security update to 4.9.0-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424556

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- The ISO CLNS parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-isoclns.c:clnp_print().
(CVE-2017-5486)

- The AH parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-ah.c:ah_print(). (CVE-2016-7922)

- The ARP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-arp.c:arp_print(). (CVE-2016-7923)

- The ATM parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-atm.c:oam_print(). (CVE-2016-7924)

- The compressed SLIP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-sl.c:sl_if_print().
(CVE-2016-7925)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 424556

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 6/10/2025

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-2017-5486

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: 1/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7922, CVE-2016-7923, CVE-2016-7924, CVE-2016-7925, CVE-2016-7926, CVE-2016-7927, CVE-2016-7928, CVE-2016-7929, CVE-2016-7930, CVE-2016-7931, CVE-2016-7932, CVE-2016-7933, CVE-2016-7934, CVE-2016-7935, CVE-2016-7936, CVE-2016-7937, CVE-2016-7938, CVE-2016-7939, CVE-2016-7940, CVE-2016-7973, CVE-2016-7974, CVE-2016-7975, CVE-2016-7983, CVE-2016-7984, CVE-2016-7985, CVE-2016-7986, CVE-2016-7992, CVE-2016-7993, CVE-2016-8574, CVE-2016-8575, CVE-2017-5202, CVE-2017-5203, CVE-2017-5204, CVE-2017-5205, CVE-2017-5341, CVE-2017-5342, CVE-2017-5482, CVE-2017-5483, CVE-2017-5484, CVE-2017-5485, CVE-2017-5486

BID: 95852

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