Alpine: multiple exim packages: security update to 4.89-r7 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400751

Description

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

- The receive_msg function in receive.c in the SMTP daemon in Exim 4.88 and 4.89 allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (infinite loop and stack exhaustion) via vectors involving BDAT commands and an
improper check for a '.' character signifying the end of the content, related to the bdat_getc function.
(CVE-2017-16944)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400751

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

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: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16944

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16944

Detections

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