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Alpine: multiple pkgconf packages: security update to 1.9.4-r0

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424363

Description

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

 - In pkgconf through 1.9.3, variable duplication can cause unbounded string expansion due to incorrect
 checks in libpkgconf/tuple.c:pkgconf_tuple_parse. For example, a .pc file containing a few hundred bytes
 can expand to one billion bytes. (CVE-2023-24056)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-24056

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 424363

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24056

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: 1/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24056