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Alpine: busybox: security update to 1.24.2-r12

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 403728

Description

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

 - The recv_and_process_client_pkt function in networking/ntpd.c in busybox allows remote attackers to cause
 a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged NTP packet, which triggers a
 communication loop. (CVE-2016-6301)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-6301

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403728

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6301

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6301

BID: 92277