It was discovered that the Naming / JNDI component of OpenJDK failed to implement required package access checks. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.
Public now via Oracle CPU January 2014. Fixed in Oracle JDK 7u51, 6u71 and 5.0u61. External References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:0027 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0027.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0026 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0026.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-2014:0030 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0030.html
OpenJDK7 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/5c20ac773584 Related follow-up commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/8ee582bb96a6
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0097 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0097.html
Fixed in: IcedTea7 2.3.13 and 2.4.4: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-January/025800.html IcedTea6 1.12.8 and 1.13.1: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-January/025947.html OpenJDK 6 B30: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2014-January/003212.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-2014:0136 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0136.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-2014:0135 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0135.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-2014:0134 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0134.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
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2014:0705 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0705.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-2014:0982 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0982.html