It was discovered that the javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl did not properly perform access control checks. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.
Fixed now in Oracle JDK 7u9 and 6u37. External Reference: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2012-1515924.html
Fix included in IcedTea6 versions 1.10.10 and 1.11.5: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-October/020556.html http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.11/file/d9564350faa6/patches/security/20121016/7198296.patch
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:1386 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1386.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2012:1385 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1385.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:1384 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1384.html
Fix included in IcedTea7 versions 2.1.3, 2.2.3 and 2.3.3: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-October/020571.html http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.3/jdk/rev/a0ae1a8c83e0
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:1391 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1391.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-2012:1392 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1392.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:1467 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1467.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-2012:1465 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1465.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-2012:1466 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1466.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.5 Via RHSA-2013:1456 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1456.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4 Via RHSA-2013:1455 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1455.html