It was discovered that the JAXP (Java API for XML Processing) component in OpenJDK did not properly check code permissions when creating document builder factories. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to bypass certain 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
Related note in the release notes: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u51-relnotes-2085002.html Change in JAXP Xalan Extension Functions In JDK 7u51, a change has been made in JAXP Xalan Extension functions to always use the default DOM implementation when Security Manager is present. This change affects the NodeSet created by DOM Document. Before this change, the DOM implementation is located through the DOM factory lookup process. With this change, when security is enabled, the lookup process is skipped and the default DOM implementation is used. This change will only affect those applications that use a 3rd party DOM implementation. In general, the NodeSet structure is expected to be compatible with that of the JDK default implementation.
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 commits: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jaxp/rev/42be8e6266ab http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jaxp/rev/783ceae9b736
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