Detections
Analytics

Alpine: agetty, blkid, cfdisk, dmesg, findmnt, hexdump, mcookie, multiple libblkid packages, multiple partx packages, multiple umount packages, runuser, setarch, wipefs: security update to 2.37.2-r0

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424636

Description

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

 - An integer overflow in util-linux through 2.37.1 can potentially cause a buffer overflow if an attacker
 were able to use system resources in a way that leads to a large number in the /proc/sysvipc/sem file.
 NOTE: this is unexploitable in GNU C Library environments, and possibly in all realistic environments.
 (CVE-2021-37600)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-37600

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 424636

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: Low

Base Score: 1.2

Temporal Score: 0.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-37600

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: 7/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-37600