32-bit Oracle Client encounters Segmentation fault even after updating glibc to RHSA-2015-2199 [Red Hat BugZilla - Bug 1150282]

Issue

• 32 bit Oracle client 12.1.0.2 fails with a “Memory fault“ error on RHEL 7.
• Even after updating to glibc-2.17-106.el7_2.1.x86_64, Oracle sqlplus gets killed by SIGSEGV.

• strace to sqlplus shows /etc/sysconfig/64bit_strstr_via_64bit_strstr_sse2_unaligned missing on system.

  • Trace log:

    read(6, "#orabasetab file is used to trac"..., 1048576) = 140
    stat("/etc/sysconfig/64bit_strstr_via_64bit_strstr_sse2_unaligned", 0xff920494) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SI_KERNEL, si_addr=0} ---
    +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++