It was discovered that the JNDI DNS client did not properly randomize the DNS query ID. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to e.g. perfom DNS spoofing attacks.
Fixed now in Oracle Java SE 5.0u75, 6u75, 7u55 and 8u5 via Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2014. Fixed in IcedTea6 1.13.3 and IcedTea7 2.4.7: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-April/027214.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-April/027222.html External References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html#AppendixJAVA
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:0407 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0407.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0406 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0406.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0408 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0408.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-2014:0413 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0413.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-2014:0412 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0412.html
OpenJDK upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/93b496a5f918 Follow up commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/c6836440c427
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 5 Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0486 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0486.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-2014:0508 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0508.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-2014:0509 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0509.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2014:0675 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0675.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2014:0685 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0685.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