It was discovered that the DerValue class in the Libraries component of OpenJDK failed to sufficiently limit the amount of memory allocated when reading DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoded input. It could allocate a large amount of memory even when processing short input. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make a Java application use an excessive amount of memory if it parsed attacker-supplied DER encoded input.
Public now via Oracle CPU January 2018: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html#AppendixJAVA The issue was fixed in Oracle JDK 9.0.4, 8u161, 7u171, and 6u181.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:0095 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0095
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-2018:0099 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0099
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-2018:0100 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0100
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-2018:0115 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0115
OpenJDK-8 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/450e608cda84
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary Via RHSA-2018:0351 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0351
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Via RHSA-2018:0352 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0352
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:0349 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0349
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary Via RHSA-2018:0458 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0458
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Via RHSA-2018:0521 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0521
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Satellite 5.8 Via RHSA-2018:1463 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1463
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Satellite 5.6 Red Hat Satellite 5.7 Via RHSA-2018:1812 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1812