It was discovered that the use of TimeZone.setDefault() is not restricted by SecurityManager, allowing untrusted Java application or applet to set new default time zone and hence bypass SecurityManager restrictions.
External Reference: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb2012-366318.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:0135 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0135.html
Patches were applied in following IcedTea versions: * IcedTea6 1.8.13 (based on OpenJDK6 b18) * IcedTea6 1.9.13 (based on OpenJDK6 b20) * IcedTea6 1.10.6 (based on OpenJDK6 b22) * IcedTea6 1.11.1 (based on OpenJDK6 b24) * IcedTea 2.0.1 (based on OpenJDK7 u1 + u3 security patches) http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-February/017249.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-February/017233.html Patch: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.10/file/4e7a700d4ecc/patches/security/20120214/7110687.patch
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-2012:0139 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0139.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2012:0322 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0322.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-2012:0508 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0508.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-2012:0514 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0514.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2012:0702 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0702.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: RHEL 5 for SAP RHEL 6 for SAP Via RHSA-2012:1080 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1080.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