Alpine: multiple binutils packages: security update to 2.39-r1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435828

Description

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

- In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called
from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file. (CVE-2022-38533)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 435828

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/28/2025

Updated: 11/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-38533

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38533

Detections

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