The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2199 advisory.

    - Backport fixes for various security flaws (#1209107):
      - Prevent heap buffer overflow in swscanf (CVE-2015-1472, CVE-2015-1473,
          - Prevent integer overflow in _IO_wstr_overflow (#1195762).
      - Prevent potential denial of service in internal_fnmatch (#1197730).
      - Prevent buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions         with misaligned buffer (CVE-2015-1781, #1199525).
    - Fix invalid file descriptor reuse when sending DNS query       (CVE-2013-7423, #1194143).

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 7 : glibc (ELSA-2015-2199)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 87092

Version 2.15

Version 2.14

Version 2.15 Nov 1, 2024, 11:44 PM 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: 202411012344
Version 2.14 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 9.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2015-1472") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2015-1781") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114