Alpine: ncurses: security update to 6.2_p20210109-r1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 405697

Description

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

- ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings
in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library. (CVE-2022-29458)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-29458

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405697

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29458

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/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: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29458