The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7098-1 advisory.

    Andy Boothe discovered that the Networking component of OpenJDK 17 did not properly handle access under     certain circumstances. An unauthenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2024-21208)

    It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 did not properly handle vectorization under     certain circumstances. An unauthenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to access unauthorized     resources and expose sensitive information. (CVE-2024-21210, CVE-2024-21235)

    It was discovered that the Serialization component of OpenJDK 17 did not properly handle deserialization     under certain circumstances. An

    unauthenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial

    of service. (CVE-2024-21217)

    It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 was not properly bounding certain UTF-8     strings, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a     denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2024-21131)

    It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 could be made to run into an infinite loop. If     an automated system were tricked into processing excessively large symbols, an attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2024-21138)

    It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 did not properly perform range check     elimination. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary     code or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2024-21140)

    Sergey Bylokhov discovered that OpenJDK 17 did not properly manage memory when handling 2D images. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue was only addressed in     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21145)

    It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 incorrectly handled memory when performing     range check elimination under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a     denial of service, execute arbitrary code or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. This issue was only     addressed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21147)

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 / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : OpenJDK 17 vulnerabilities (USN-7098-1)

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