The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6812-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 incorrectly handled certain exceptions with     specially crafted long messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2024-21011)

    It was discovered that OpenJDK 17 incorrectly performed reverse DNS query under certain circumstances in     the Networking/HTTP client component. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive     information. (CVE-2024-21012)

    Vladimir Kondratyev discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 incorrectly handled address offset     calculations in the C1 compiler. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-21068)

    It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 incorrectly handled array accesses in the C2     compiler. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2024-21094)

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 / 23.10 : OpenJDK 17 vulnerabilities (USN-6812-1)

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