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

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