The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3092 advisory.

  - glibc: Incorrect handling of RPATH in elf/dl-load.c can be used to execute code loaded from arbitrary     libraries (CVE-2017-16997)

  - glibc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign in memalign functions (CVE-2018-6485)

  - glibc: Integer overflow in stdlib/canonicalize.c on 32-bit architectures leading to stack-based buffer     overflow (CVE-2018-11236)

  - glibc: Buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper (CVE-2018-11237)

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-2018:3092)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118527

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Version 1.10 Apr 28, 2024, 3:17 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404280317
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