Alpine: multiple libxml2 packages, multiple py3-libxml2 packages: security update to 2.9.0-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401192

Description

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

- Heap-based buffer underflow in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.0 and
earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.91 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause
a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted entities in an XML document.
(CVE-2012-5134)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401192

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5134

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5134

BID: 56684

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