It was discovered that the Security component in OpenJDK could pass mutable strings to untrusted code. 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 and 6u71. 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/07004bb53c3c
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-2014:0135 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