The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0805 advisory.

  - glibc: denial of service in getnetbyname function (CVE-2014-9402)

  - glibc: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type (CVE-2015-5180)

  - glibc: Fragmentation attacks possible when EDNS0 is enabled (CVE-2017-12132)

  - glibc: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)

  - glibc: Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator (CVE-2017-15804)

  - glibc: realpath() buffer underflow when getcwd() returns relative path allows privilege escalation     (CVE-2018-1000001)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : glibc (RHSA-2018:0805)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 108985

Version 1.10