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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.122879
Category:Oracle Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2016-3515)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'glibc' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2016-3515 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'glibc' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2016-3515 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
[2.17-106.0.1.4]
- Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions.
- Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and
1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported.

[2.17-106.4]
- Revert problematic libresolv change, not needed for the
CVE-2015-7547 fix (#1296030).

[2.17-106.3]
- Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer overflow (#1296030).
- Fix madvise performance issues (#1298930).
- Avoid 'monstartup: out of memory' error on powerpc64le (#1298956).

[2.17-106.2]
- Fix CVE-2015-5229: calloc() may return non-zero memory (#1296453).

Affected Software/OS:
'glibc' package(s) on Oracle Linux 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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