The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2985 advisory.

    The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java     Software Development Kit.

    Security Fix(es):

    * OpenJDK: Bypass of boundary checks in nio.Buffer via concurrent access (Libraries, 8238920)     (CVE-2020-14583)

    * OpenJDK: Incomplete bounds checks in Affine Transformations (2D, 8240119) (CVE-2020-14593)

    * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of access control context in ForkJoinPool (Libraries, 8237117)     (CVE-2020-14556)

    * OpenJDK: Unexpected exception raised by DerInputStream (Libraries, 8237731) (CVE-2020-14578)

    * OpenJDK: Unexpected exception raised by DerValue.equals() (Libraries, 8237736) (CVE-2020-14579)

    * OpenJDK: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of the use-grammar-pool-only feature     (JAXP, 8242136) (CVE-2020-14621)

    * OpenJDK: HostnameChecker does not ensure X.509 certificate names are in normalized form (JSSE, 8237592)     (CVE-2020-14577)

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

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 6 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2020:2985)

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Version 1.11 Nov 7, 2024, 8:52 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070852
Version 1.10 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") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.9 Jan 23, 2023, 7:12 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301231912