Alpine: multiple sysklogd packages: security update to 1.5-r18 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401007

Description

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

- rsyslog before 7.6.6 and 8.x before 8.4.1 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (crash), possibly execute arbitrary code, or have other unspecified impact via a crafted
priority (PRI) value that triggers an out-of-bounds array access. (CVE-2014-3634)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401007

Version: Revision 1.24

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3634

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 1/23/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3634

BID: 70187

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