Old jre-legacy causes isues in MC 1.8.9

The Minecraft Launcher bundles an old java version (1.8.0_51-b16) - jre-legacy - that is used to launch Minecraft 1.8.9. With this version some custom player heads are not rendered correctly, both in inventories and placed. These are rendered as Steve heads.

 

Updating the java version to an installed java (1.8.0_371-b11) in the Minecraft installation properties solves the issue for me.