It was discovered that the URLStreamHandler class in the Networking component of OpenJDK failed to properly parse user info from the URL. A remote attacker could cause Java application to incorrectly parse attacker provided URL and interpret it differently from other applications processing the same URL.
Public now via Oracle CPU January 2017: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html#AppendixJAVA The issue was fixed in Oracle JDK 8u121, 7u131, and 6u141.
OpenJDK 8 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/cd0585378c46
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-2017:0176 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0176.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:0175 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0175.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:0177 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0177.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:0180 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0180.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:0263 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0263.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-2017:0269 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0269.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:0337 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0337.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:0336 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0336.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary Via RHSA-2017:0338 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0338.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Satellite 5.6 Red Hat Satellite 5.7 Via RHSA-2017:1216 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1216