The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2568 advisory.

    IBM Java SE version 8 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

    This update upgrades IBM Java SE 8 to version 8 SR5-FP20.

    Security Fix(es):

    * IBM JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API (CVE-2018-12539)

    * openssl: BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)

    * openssl: bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)

    * IBM JDK: DoS in the java.math component (CVE-2018-1517)

    * IBM JDK: path traversal flaw in the Diagnostic Tooling Framework (CVE-2018-1656)

    * Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (Libraries)     (CVE-2018-2940)

    * OpenJDK: insufficient index validation in PatternSyntaxException getMessage() (Concurrency, 8199547)     (CVE-2018-2952)

    * Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (JSSE) (CVE-2018-2973)

    * OpenSSL: Double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting CVE-2016-0705. Upstream acknowledges Adam     Langley (Google/BoringSSL) as the original reporter of CVE-2016-0705.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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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RHEL 7 : java-1.8.0-ibm (RHSA-2018:2568)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 112131

Version 1.8

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Version 1.8 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.7 Aug 14, 2024, 8:18 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" set to "No known exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202408140818
Version 1.6 Apr 28, 2024, 3:17 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2016-0705") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404280317