SUSE SLED15: java-17-openjdk / java-17-openjdk-accessibility / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:2660-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163824

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2660-1 advisory.

Update to upstream tag jdk-17.0.4+8 (July 2022 CPU)

- CVE-2022-21540: Improve class compilation (bsc#1201694)
- CVE-2022-21541: Enhance MethodHandle invocations (bsc#1201692)
- CVE-2022-34169: Improve Xalan supports (bsc#1201684)
- CVE-2022-21549: java.util.random does not correctly sample exponential or Gaussian distributions (bsc#1201685)

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: High

ID: 163824

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2660-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/4/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34169

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-17-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-17-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-17-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-17-openjdk-headless

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21540, CVE-2022-21541, CVE-2022-21549, CVE-2022-34169

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2660-1

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