A flaw was found in the HotSpot component in OpenJDK. Certain bytecode instructions confused the memory management within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), resulting in an applet or application crashing.
Public now via Oracle CPU June 2011: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpujune2011-313339.html Also fixed in IcedTea6 versions 1.8.8, 1.9.8 and 1.10.2: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-June/014607.html Patch: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.9/file/8d393fbff5d3/patches/security/20110607/7020373.patch
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:0856 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0856.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2011:0857 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0857.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Extras for RHEL 4 Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:0860 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0860.html