Alpine: multiple libxslt packages: security update to 1.1.27-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401177

Description

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

- libxslt before 1.1.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and
crash) via an (1) empty match attribute in a XSL key to the xsltAddKey function in keys.c or (2)
uninitialized variable to the xsltDocumentFunction function in functions.c. (CVE-2012-6139)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401177

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: 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-2012-6139

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: 4/11/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6139

BID: 58685

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