It was discovered that the decoder (DocumentHandler in OpenJDK 7 and ObjectHandler OpenJDK 6) allowed processing of XML external entities. An application using JavaBeans could possibly disclose sensitive information, or be target of a DoS attack, triggered via XML external entities.
Public now via Oracle CPU January 2014. Fixed in Oracle JDK 7u51, 6u71 and 5.0u61. External References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:0027 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0027.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0026 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0026.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-2014:0030 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0030.html
OpenJDK7 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/995b32f013f5
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0097 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0097.html
Fixed in: IcedTea7 2.3.13 and 2.4.4: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-January/025800.html IcedTea6 1.12.8 and 1.13.1: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-January/025947.html OpenJDK 6 B30: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2014-January/003212.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-2014:0136 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0136.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-2014:0135 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0135.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-2014:0134 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0134.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
This issue has been addressed in following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2014:0705 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0705.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4 Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.5 Red Hat Satellite Server v 5.6 Via RHSA-2014:0982 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0982.html