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Alpine: libexpat, multiple expat packages: security update to 2.7.0-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423868

Description

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

 - A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity
 expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nested entity references, libexpat
 can be forced to recurse indefinitely, exhausting the stack space and causing a crash. This issue could
 lead to denial of service (DoS) or, in some cases, exploitable memory corruption, depending on the
 environment and library usage. (CVE-2024-8176)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-8176

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423868

Version: Revision 1.12

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

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: 23.74

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8176

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: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8176

IAVA: 2025-A-0186