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Alpine: multiple zziplib packages: security update to 0.13.69-r2

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427696

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - An issue was discovered in ZZIPlib through 0.13.69. There is a memory leak triggered in the function
 __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c, which will lead to a denial of service attack. (CVE-2018-16548)

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in ZZIPlib 0.13.69 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a
 .. (dot dot) in a zip file, because of the function unzzip_cat in the bins/unzzipcat-mem.c file.
 (CVE-2018-17828)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-16548

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-17828

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427696

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17828

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: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: 9/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16548, CVE-2018-17828