The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1911 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: improper connection handling during TLS handshake (8294474) (CVE-2023-21930)

    * OpenJDK: Swing HTML parsing issue (8296832) (CVE-2023-21939)

    * OpenJDK: incorrect enqueue of references in garbage collector (8298191) (CVE-2023-21954)

    * OpenJDK: certificate validation issue in TLS session negotiation (8298310) (CVE-2023-21967)

    * OpenJDK: missing string checks for NULL characters (8296622) (CVE-2023-21937)

    * OpenJDK: incorrect handling of NULL characters in ProcessBuilder (8295304) (CVE-2023-21938)

    * OpenJDK: missing check for slash characters in URI-to-path conversion (8298667) (CVE-2023-21968)

    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-2023:1911)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174952

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.4 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.3 Nov 5, 2024, 6:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051829
Version 1.2 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.1 May 24, 2023, 8:43 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305242043
Version 1.0 Apr 29, 2023, 3:58 PM New Plugin Feed: 202304291558