Alpine: multiple shadow packages: security update to 4.2.1-r10 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400856

Description

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

- A race condition was found in util-linux before 2.32.1 in the way su handled the management of child
processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges
under specific conditions. (CVE-2017-2616)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=31b47e3f9bfbb9c1e438a8161ec9021131c7244e

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=f6afcbbc796f404b70cfea1fdef72fa5e7ed0896

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400856

Version: Revision 1.23

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: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2616

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/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: 5/17/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2616

BID: 96404