Alpine: libcap: security update to 2.64-r1

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 405140

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- A vulnerability was found in the pthread_create() function in libcap. This issue may allow a malicious
actor to use cause __real_pthread_create() to return an error, which can exhaust the process memory.
(CVE-2023-2602)

- A vulnerability was found in libcap. This issue occurs in the _libcap_strdup() function and can lead to an
integer overflow if the input string is close to 4GiB. (CVE-2023-2603)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-2602

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-2603

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 405140

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2603

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2602, CVE-2023-2603