The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:42733 advisory.

    * glibc: glibc: Information disclosure or denial of service via ungetwc function with specific wide     character encodings (CVE-2026-5928)

    * glibc: glibc: Out-of-bounds write via TSIG record processing (CVE-2026-5435)

    * glibc: glibc: Application crash or uninitialized memory read via crafted DNS response (CVE-2026-6238)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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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RockyLinux 8 : glibc (RLSA-2026:42733)

high Nessus Plugin ID 328882

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Version 1.3 Jul 23, 2026, 8:43 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202607230843
Version 1.2 Jul 22, 2026, 11:06 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202607222306
Version 1.1 Jul 22, 2026, 11:38 AM New Plugin Feed: 202607221138