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Alpine: binutils: security update to 2.28-r3

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 403678

Description

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

 - GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and
 application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to the byte_get_little_endian function in elfcomm.c,
 the get_unwind_section_word function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word
 offsets. (CVE-2017-9038)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-9038

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 403678

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9038

BID: 98589