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Alpine: multiple icu packages: security update to 57.1-r1

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423970

Description

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

 - The uloc_acceptLanguageFromHTTP function in common/uloc.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU)
 through 57.1 for C/C++ does not ensure that there is a '\0' character at the end of a certain temporary
 array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have
 unspecified other impact via a call with a long httpAcceptLanguage argument. (CVE-2016-6293)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-6293

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423970

Version: Revision 1.8

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6293

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6293

BID: 92127