Alpine: multiple libxml2 packages, multiple py3-libxml2 packages: security update to 2.9.10-r2 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400403

Description

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

- xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file
situation. (CVE-2020-7595)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=76958c600547909509a0352cfbfd9d329ff49da9

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=b406fe9df4eb8fd64af769bac02dc05540555839

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400403

Version: Revision 1.26

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7595

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7595