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Alpine: finch, libpurple, multiple pidgin packages: security update to 2.10.11-r1

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 406407

Description

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

 - An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Pidgin before 2.12.0 processed XML content. A malicious
 remote server could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin or execute arbitrary code in the context of
 the pidgin process. (CVE-2017-2640)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-2640

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 406407

Version: Revision 1.27

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2640

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 3/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2640

BID: 96775

IAVB: 2017-B-0029