The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-1844 advisory.

    - Fixes variation of CVE-2016-5418: Hard links could include '..' in their path.
    - Fixes CVE-2016-5418: Archive Entry with type 1 (hardlink) causes file overwrite (#1365777)

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 : libarchive (ELSA-2016-1844)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93446

Version 2.12