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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : OpenJDK 11 vulnerabilities (USN-6811-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 200142

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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-6811-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 11 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 11 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 11 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)

 Yakov Shafranovich discovered that OpenJDK 11 did not properly manage memory in the Pack200 archive format. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-21085)

 It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 11 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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6811-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 200142

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6811-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2024

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21094

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-demo, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jre, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jdk, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jre-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jre-zero, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21011, CVE-2024-21012, CVE-2024-21068, CVE-2024-21085, CVE-2024-21094

USN: 6811-1