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MiracleLinux 7 : glibc-2.17-260.el7 (AXSA:2019-3623:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 288990

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2019-3623:01 advisory.

 * glibc: Incorrect handling of RPATH in elf/dl-load.c can be used to execute code loaded from arbitrary libraries (CVE-2017-16997)
 * glibc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign in memalign functions (CVE-2018-6485)
 * glibc: Integer overflow in stdlib/canonicalize.c on 32-bit architectures leading to stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2018-11236)
 * glibc: Buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper (CVE-2018-11237)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/10072

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 288990

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2019-3623.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16997

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6485

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:nscd, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:glibc-utils, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:glibc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16997, CVE-2018-11236, CVE-2018-11237, CVE-2018-6485