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Alpine: multiple libtasn1 packages: security update to 4.12-r1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424071

Description

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

 - The _asn1_check_identifier function in GNU Libtasn1 through 4.12 causes a NULL pointer dereference and
 crash when reading crafted input that triggers assignment of a NULL value within an asn1_node structure.
 It may lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-10790)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-10790

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424071

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-10790

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10790