SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openj9 (SUSE-SU-2025:0435-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216184

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0435-1 advisory.

Update to OpenJDK 8u442 build 06 with OpenJ9 0.49.0 virtual machine.

- CVE-2024-21235: unauthorized read/write access to data through the Hotspot component. (bsc#1231719)
- CVE-2024-21217: partial denial-of-service through the Serialization component. (bsc#1231716)
- CVE-2024-21210: unauthorized read/write access to data through the Hotspot component. (bsc#1231711)
- CVE-2024-21208: partial denial-of-service through the Networking component. (bsc#1231702)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216184

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0435-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/12/2025

Updated: 2/12/2025

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: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21235

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openj9, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openj9-accessibility, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openj9-headless, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openj9-src, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openj9-demo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openj9-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21208, CVE-2024-21210, CVE-2024-21217, CVE-2024-21235

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0435-1

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