It was discovered that the Networking component did not properly enforce exclusive port binding. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to bind to ports intended to be exclusively bound.
External References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpujun2013-1899847.html
OpenJDK7 upstream repositories commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/8dd8266a2f4b
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:0963 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0963.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-2013:1060 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1060.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-2013:1059 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1059.html
Fixed in IcedTea6 versions 1.11.12 and 1.12.6, and IcedTea7 versions 2.1.9, 2.2.9, 2.3.10 and 2.4.1: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-July/023941.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-June/023849.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-June/023860.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-July/023895.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
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