It was discovered that the awt_getPixelByte, awt_getPixelShort, awt_setPixelByte, and awt_setPixelShort functions did not properly verify certain raster attributes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger a Java Virtual Machine memory corruption and, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the virtual machine.
External References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013-1899837.html
Fixed in Oracle Java SE 7u45 and 6u65. OpenJDK upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/26edfc8182bb
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2013:1440 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1440.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2013:1447 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1447.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:1451 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1451.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:1505 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1505.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2013:1509 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1509.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:1508 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1508.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:1507 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1507.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4 Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.5 Red Hat Satellite Server v 5.6 Via RHSA-2013:1793 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1793.html
Fixed in IcedTea7 2.4.3 and IcedTea6 1.11.14 and 1.12.7: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-October/025087.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-November/025278.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-November/025328.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:0414 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0414.html