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Alpine: multiple wavpack packages: security update to 5.4.0-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427018

Description

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

 - WavPack 5.3.0 has an out-of-bounds write in WavpackPackSamples in pack_utils.c because of an integer
 overflow in a malloc argument. NOTE: some third-parties claim that there are later "unofficial" releases
 through 5.3.2, which are also affected. (CVE-2020-35738)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-35738

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427018

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.63

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35738

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 12/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35738