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Alpine: multiple tar packages: security update to 1.34-r2

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424588

Description

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

 - GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a
 conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs
 in from_header in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace characters.
 (CVE-2022-48303)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-48303

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 424588

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48303

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: 1/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48303