It was discovered that the CardImpl class in the Smart Card IO component of OpenJDK failed to properly update its state in the finalize() method. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to gain unexpected access to a smart card, bypassing certain Java sandbox restrictions.
Public now via Oracle CPU October 2017: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html#AppendixJAVA The issue was fixed in Oracle JDK 9.0.1, 8u151, 7u161, and 6u171.
OpenJDK-8 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/8913fd33ceee
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:2998 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2998
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-2017:2999 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2999
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-2017:3047 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3047
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 Via RHSA-2017:3046 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3046
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:3392 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3392