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Alpine: musl: security update to 1.1.16-r14

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 405666

Description

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

 - musl libc before 1.1.17 has a buffer overflow via crafted DNS replies because dns_parse_callback in
 network/lookup_name.c does not restrict the number of addresses, and thus an attacker can provide an
 unexpected number by sending A records in a reply to an AAAA query. (CVE-2017-15650)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-15650

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405666

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15650

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15650