

If you need to occasionally use Java for certain websites, but don’t need it enabled all the time, you can disable it instead of uninstalling. Now that you only have the latest version, we can do one of two things: either disable Java or uninstall it. As you can see, I don’t need Java 8 Update 60 because I have the latest Java 8 Update 65 installed. If there are older versions, you will get a message showing you the versions and giving you the ability to uninstall them.Ĭlick on the Uninstall Selected Versions button to remove the older versions. The applet will check your version of Java and then remove out-of-date versions. To get rid of the older versions, you can download and install the latest version of Java, which will automatically check for older versions and then install the latest version or you can run the Java Uninstall Tool. If version 1.8.x cannot be obtained, versions 1.7.0_151 and 1.6.0_161 have also been patched for these vulnerabilities.So what’s next? Well, the first thing I do when removing Java on Windows is to uninstall the older versions first. This may allow a remote attacker to exhaust available memory and potentially cause a crash. Description The version of Oracle Java SE installed on the remote host is prior to 6 Update 161, 7 Update 151, or 8 Update 141, and is therefore affected by a flaw that is triggered during object deserialization. Synopsis The remote host is missing a critical Oracle Java SE patch update. Severity display preferences can be toggled in the settings dropdown. Plugins that do not have a CVSS v3 score will fall back to CVSS v2 for calculating severity. The calculated severity for Plugins has been updated to use CVSS v3 by default.
