The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1087 advisory.

    The IBM 1.5.0 Java release includes the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and     the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit.

    This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the IBM Java 2 Runtime     Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit. Detailed     vulnerability descriptions are linked from the IBM Security alerts page,     listed in the References section. (CVE-2011-0802, CVE-2011-0814,     CVE-2011-0862, CVE-2011-0865, CVE-2011-0867, CVE-2011-0871, CVE-2011-0873)

    All users of java-1.5.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, containing the IBM 1.5.0 SR12-FP5 Java release. All running     instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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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RHEL 5 / 6 : java-1.5.0-ibm (RHSA-2011:1087)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55667

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