The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5546-1 advisory.

    Neil Madden discovered that OpenJDK did not properly verify ECDSA signatures. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected OpenJDK     17 and OpenJDK 18. (CVE-2022-21449)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly limited memory when compiling a specially crafted XPath     expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was fixed     in OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 18. USN-5388-1 and USN-5388-2 addressed this issue in OpenJDK 11 and OpenJDK 17.
    (CVE-2022-21426)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled converting certain object arguments into their textual     representations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was     fixed in OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 18. USN-5388-1 and USN-5388-2 addressed this issue in OpenJDK 11 and     OpenJDK 17. (CVE-2022-21434)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly validated the encoded length of certain object identifiers. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was fixed in OpenJDK 8 and     OpenJDK 18. USN-5388-1 and USN-5388-2 addressed this issue in OpenJDK 11 and OpenJDK 17. (CVE-2022-21443)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly validated certain paths. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to bypass the secure validation feature and expose sensitive information in XML files. This issue     was fixed in OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 18. USN-5388-1 and USN-5388-2 addressed this issue in OpenJDK 11 and     OpenJDK 17. (CVE-2022-21476)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly parsed certain URI strings. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to make applications accept invalid of malformed URI strings. This issue was fixed in OpenJDK 8 and     OpenJDK 18. USN-5388-1 and USN-5388-2 addressed this issue in OpenJDK 11 and OpenJDK 17. (CVE-2022-21496)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly generated class code in the Hotspot component. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-21540)

    It was dicovered that OpenJDK incorrectly restricted access to the invokeBasic() method in the Hotspot     component. An attacker could possibly use this issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information.
    (CVE-2022-21541)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly computed exponentials. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected OpenJDK 17.
    (CVE-2022-21549)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK includes a copy of Xalan that incorrectly handled integer truncation. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-34169)

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 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : OpenJDK vulnerabilities (USN-5546-1)

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Version 1.8 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 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: 202408281943
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