Alpine: busybox: security update to 1.36.1-r17

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 408415

Description

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

- A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in xasprintf function in xfuncs_printf.c:344 in BusyBox
v.1.36.1. (CVE-2023-42363)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-42363

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 408415

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Published: 5/20/2024

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: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-42363

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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: 11/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-42363