The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12472 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-33599: nscd: buffer overflow in netgroup cache (RHEL-34318)
    - CVE-2024-33600: nscd: null pointer dereferences in netgroup cache
    - CVE-2024-33601: nscd: crash on out-of-memory condition
    - CVE-2024-33602: nscd: memory corruption with NSS netgroup modules
    - CVE-2024-2961: Out of bounds write in iconv conversion to ISO-2022-CN-EXT (RHEL-32480)
    - CVE-2023-4911 glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation (RHEL-3000)
    - CVE-2023-4806 glibc: potential use-after-free in getaddrinfo (RHEL-2426)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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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Oracle Linux 9 : glibc (ELSA-2024-12472)

high Nessus Plugin ID 201851

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Version 1.3 Nov 2, 2024, 7:54 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411020754
Version 1.2 Oct 21, 2024, 9:27 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework metasploit" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202410210927
Version 1.1 Jul 4, 2024, 1:25 AM New Plugin Feed: 202407040125