Various memory allocating parts of the Hotspot component did not correctly handle out-of-memory errors. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use these flaws to terminate the Java VM.
External References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpujun2013-1899847.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2013:0958 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0958.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:0957 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0957.html
OpenJDK7 upstream repositories commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/hotspot/rev/ed3ac73a70ab
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: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:1014 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1014.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: 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