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Alpine: libxml2: security update to 2.9.14-r2

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 405420

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the
 XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to
 access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault. (CVE-2022-40303)

 - An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. Certain invalid XML entity definitions can corrupt a
 hash table key, potentially leading to subsequent logic errors. In one case, a double-free can be
 provoked. (CVE-2022-40304)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-40303

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-40304

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405420

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: 5

Percentile: 94.19

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40304

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 10/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40303, CVE-2022-40304