A flaw was found in the Hotspot's, the OpenJDK's JVM, optimizing C2 compiler. A byte code with incorrect range checks could be generated in certain cases, making it possible for an untrusted Java application or applet to disclose portions of the JVM memory.
Public now via Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2014. Fixed in Oracle Java SE 5.0u75, 6u85, and 7u71. External References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html#AppendixJAVA
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:1633 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1633.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2014:1620 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1620.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:1634 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1634.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:1636 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1636.html
This issue was fixed in IcedTea6 1.13.5 and IcedTea7 2.5.3: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-October/029884.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-October/029889.html Upstream OpenJDK commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/hotspot/rev/97fb076fab01
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:1658 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1658.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:1657 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1657.html