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.

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

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