The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3691-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK did not correctly perform merging of multiple     sections for the same file listed in JAR archive file manifests. An attacker could possibly use this to     modify attributes in a manifest without invalidating the signature. (CVE-2018-2790)

    Francesco Palmarini, Marco Squarcina, Mauro Tempesta, and Riccardo Focardi discovered that the Security     component of OpenJDK did not restrict which classes could be used when deserializing keys from the JCEKS     key stores. An attacker could use this to specially craft a JCEKS key store to execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2018-2794)

    It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK in some situations did not properly limit the     amount of memory allocated when performing deserialization. An attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-2795)

    It was discovered that the Concurrency component of OpenJDK in some situations did not properly limit the     amount of memory allocated when performing deserialization. An attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-2796)

    It was discovered that the JMX component of OpenJDK in some situations did not properly limit the amount     of memory allocated when performing deserialization. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-2797)

    It was discovered that the AWT component of OpenJDK in some situations did not properly limit the amount     of memory allocated when performing deserialization. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-2798)

    It was discovered that the JAXP component of OpenJDK in some situations did not properly limit the amount     of memory allocated when performing deserialization. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-2799)

    Moritz Bechler discovered that the RMI component of OpenJDK enabled HTTP transport for RMI servers by     default. A remote attacker could use this to gain access to restricted services. (CVE-2018-2800)

    It was discovered that a vulnerability existed in the Hotspot component of OpenJDK affecting     confidentiality, data integrity, and availability. An attacker could use this to specially craft an Java     application that caused a denial of service or bypassed sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2018-2814)

    Apostolos Giannakidis discovered that the Serialization component of OpenJDK did not properly bound memory     allocations in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2018-2815)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities (USN-3691-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110662

Version 1.8