The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1491 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: Defective secure validation in Apache Santuario (Libraries, 8278008) (CVE-2022-21476)

    * OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation when compiling crafted XPath expressions (JAXP, 8270504)     (CVE-2022-21426)

    * OpenJDK: Improper object-to-string conversion in AnnotationInvocationHandler (Libraries, 8277672)     (CVE-2022-21434)

    * OpenJDK: Missing check for negative ObjectIdentifier (Libraries, 8275151) (CVE-2022-21443)

    * OpenJDK: URI parsing inconsistencies (JNDI, 8278972) (CVE-2022-21496)

    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 8 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2022:1491)

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