The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6887 advisory.

    [1:21.0.1.0.12-2.0.1]
    - Add Oracle vendor bug URL

    [1:21.0.1.0.12-2]
    - Switch to using portable binaries built on RHEL 7
    - Sync the copy of the portable specfile with the RHEL 7 version
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:21.0.1.0.12-1]
    - Update to jdk-21.0.1.0+12 (GA)
    - Update release notes to 21.0.1.0+12
    - Sync the copy of the portable specfile with the latest update
    - Update openjdk_news script to specify subdirectory last
    - Add missing discover_trees script required by openjdk_news
    - Synchronise bundled versions with 21u sources (FreeType, LCMS, HarfBuzz, libpng)
    - Sync generate_tarball.sh with 11u & 17u version
    - Update bug URL for RHEL to point to the Red Hat customer portal
    - Fix upstream release URL for OpenJDK source
    - Following JDK-8005165, class data sharing can be enabled on all JIT architectures
    - Use tapsets from the misc tarball
    - Introduce 'prelease' for the portable release versioning, to handle EA builds
    - Make sure root installation directory is created first
    - Use in-place substitution for all but the first of the tapset changes
    - Synchronise runtime and buildtime tzdata requirements
    - Remove ghosts for binaries not in java-21-openjdk (pack200, rmid, unpack200)
    - Add missing jfr, jpackage and jwebserver alternative ghosts
    - Move jcmd to the headless package
    - Revert alt-java binary location to being within the JDK tree
    - Resolves: RHEL-12997
    - Resolves: RHEL-14954
    - Resolves: RHEL-14962
    - Resolves: RHEL-14958
    - Related: RHEL-14946
    - Resolves: RHEL-14959
    - Resolves: RHEL-14948

    [1:21.0.1.0.12-1]
    - Exclude classes_nocoops.jsa on i686 and arm32
    - Related: RHEL-14946

    [1:21.0.1.0.12-1]
    - Fix packaging of CDS archives
    - Resolves: RHEL-14946

    [1:21.0.0.0.35-2]
    - Update documentation (README.md)
    - Replace alt-java patch with a binary separate from the JDK
    - Drop stale patches that are of little use any more:
    - * nss.cfg has been disabled since early PKCS11 work and long superseded by FIPS work
    - * No accessibility subpackage to warrant RH1648242 & RH1648644 patches any more
    - * No use of system libjpeg turbo to warrant RH649512 patch any more
    - Replace RH1684077 pcsc-lite-libs patch with better JDK-8009550 fix being upstreamed
    - Adapt alt-java test to new binary where there is always a set_speculation function
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:21.0.0.0.35-1]
    - Update to jdk-21.0.0+35
    - Update system crypto policy & FIPS patch from new fips-21u tree
    - Update generate_tarball.sh to sync with upstream vanilla script inc. no more ECC removal
    - Drop fakefeaturever now it is no longer needed
    - Change top_level_dir_name to use the VCS tag, matching new upstream release style tarball
    - Use upstream release URL for OpenJDK source
    - Re-enable tzdata tests now we are on the latest JDK and things are back in sync
    - Install jaxp.properties introduced by JDK-8303530
    - Install lible.so introduced by JDK-8306983
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:21.0.0.0.35-1]
    - Replace smoke test files used in the staticlibs test, as fdlibm was removed by JDK-8303798
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:20.0.0.0.36-1]
    - Update to jdk-20.0.2+9
    - Update release notes to 20.0.2+9
    - Update system crypto policy & FIPS patch from new fips-20u tree
    - Update generate_tarball.sh ICEDTEA_VERSION
    - Update CLDR reference data following update to 42 (Rocky Mountain-Normalzeit => Rocky-Mountain-     Normalzeit)
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:20.0.0.0.36-1]
    - Dropped JDK-8295447, JDK-8296239 & JDK-8299439 patches now upstream
    - Adapted rh1750419-redhat_alt_java.patch
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:19.0.1.0.10-1]
    - Update to jdk-19.0.2 release
    - Update release notes to 19.0.2
    - Rebase FIPS patches from fips-19u branch
    - Remove references to sample directory removed by JDK-8284999
    - Add local patch JDK-8295447 (javac NPE) which was accepted into 19u upstream but not in the GA tag
    - Add local patches for JDK-8296239 & JDK-8299439 (Croatia Euro update) which are present in 8u, 11u & 17u     releases
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:18.0.2.0.9-1]
    - Update to jdk-18.0.2 release
    - Support JVM variant zero following JDK-8273494 no longer installing Zero's libjvm.so in the server     directory
    - Rebase FIPS patches from fips-18u branch
    - Rebase RH1648249 nss.cfg patch so it applies after the FIPS patch
    - Drop now unused fresh_libjvm, build_hotspot_first, bootjdk and buildjdkver variables, as we don't build     a JDK here
    - Drop tzdata patches added for 17.0.7 which will eventually appear in the upstream tarball when we reach     OpenJDK 21
    - Disable tzdata tests until we are on the latest JDK and things are back in sync
    - Use empty nss.fips.cfg until it is again available via the FIPS patch
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:18.0.2.0.9-1]
    - Update to ea version of jdk18
    - Add new slave jwebserver and corresponding manpage
    - Adjust rh1684077-openjdk_should_depend_on_pcsc-lite-libs_instead_of_pcsc-lite-devel.patch
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:18.0.2.0.9-1]
    - Add javaver- and origin-specific javadoc and javadoczip alternatives.
    - Related: RHEL-12997

    [1:17.0.7.0.7-4]
    - Add files missed by centpkg import.
    - Related: rhbz#2192748

    [1:17.0.7.0.7-3]
    - Create java-21-openjdk package based on java-17-openjdk
    - Related: rhbz#2192748

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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