It was discovered that the ObjectIdentifier class in the Libraries component of OpenJDK did not check the length of the object identifier read from the input before allocating memory to store the OID. An attacker able to make a Java application to decode a specially crafted DER input could cause the application to use an excessive amount of memory. The DER encoding is used in e.g. X.509 certificates or LDAP protocol.
Public now via Oracle CPU January 2017: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html#AppendixJAVA The issue was fixed in Oracle JDK 8u121 and 7u131.
OpenJDK 8 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/683c9263a5b1
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2017:0176 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0176.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:0175 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0175.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:0180 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0180.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:0263 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0263.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2017:0269 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0269.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:0337 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0337.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:0336 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0336.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Satellite 5.6 Red Hat Satellite 5.7 Via RHSA-2017:1216 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1216