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Alpine: multiple tar packages: security update to 1.29-r1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424547

Description

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

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might
 allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and write to arbitrary files via vectors
 related to improper sanitization of the file_name parameter, aka POINTYFEATHER. (CVE-2016-6321)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-6321

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424547

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: 5

Percentile: 94.64

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6321

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:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6321

BID: 93937