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Alpine: multiple mpfr-dev packages: security update to 4.2.1-r0

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424207

Description

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

 - sprintf in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.37 has a buffer overflow (out-of-bounds write) in some situations
 with a correct buffer size. This is unrelated to CWE-676. It may write beyond the bounds of the
 destination buffer when attempting to write a padded, thousands-separated string representation of a
 number, if the buffer is allocated the exact size required to represent that number as a string. For
 example, 1,234,567 (with padding to 13) overflows by two bytes. (CVE-2023-25139)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-25139

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 424207

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25139

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: 2/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25139