Alpine: multiple libxml2 packages, multiple py3-libxml2 packages: security update to 2.9.0-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401248

Description

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

- libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory
consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many
references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity. (CVE-2013-0338)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401248

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: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0338

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: 4/8/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0338

BID: 58180

Detections

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