The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0176 advisory.

    - Revert problematic libresolv change, not needed for the       CVE-2015-7547 fix (#1296030).
    - Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer overflow (#1296030).

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-2016-0176)

high Nessus Plugin ID 88777

Version 2.21

Version 2.20

Version 2.21 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 2.20 Oct 23, 2024, 3:47 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2015-7547") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2015-7547, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410231547