The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1384 advisory.

    The Sun 1.6.0 Java release includes the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and     the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit.

    This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the Sun Java 6 Runtime     Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit. Further     information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Java SE Critical     Patch page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2011-3389,     CVE-2011-3516, CVE-2011-3521, CVE-2011-3544, CVE-2011-3545, CVE-2011-3546,     CVE-2011-3547, CVE-2011-3548, CVE-2011-3549, CVE-2011-3550, CVE-2011-3551,     CVE-2011-3552, CVE-2011-3553, CVE-2011-3554, CVE-2011-3555, CVE-2011-3556,     CVE-2011-3557, CVE-2011-3558, CVE-2011-3560, CVE-2011-3561)

    All users of java-1.6.0-sun are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which provide JDK and JRE 6 Update 29 and resolve these issues.
    All running instances of Sun Java must be restarted for the 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-1.6.0-sun (RHSA-2011:1384)

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