Alpine: libtiffxx, multiple tiff packages: security update to 4.0.8-r1 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400790

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- In PCRE 8.41, after compiling, a pcretest load test PoC produces a crash overflow in the function match()
in pcre_exec.c because of a self-recursive call. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this report,
noting that there are options that can be used to limit the amount of stack that is used (CVE-2017-16231)

- LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service
(memory consumption), as demonstrated by tif_open.c, tif_lzw.c, and tif_aux.c. NOTE: Third parties were
unable to reproduce the issue (CVE-2017-16232)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400790

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-2017-16232

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: 11/23/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16231, CVE-2017-16232

BID: 101688, 101696

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