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It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK could fail to properly enforce restrictions (specified using the jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms security property) defined for processing of X.509 certificate chains. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Java accept certificate using one of the disabled algorithms.
Public now via Oracle CPU July 2017: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html#AppendixJAVA The issue was fixed in Oracle JDK 8u141, 7u151, and 6u161.
OpenJDK-8 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/276269460238
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-2017:1792 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1792
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 Via RHSA-2017:1791 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1791
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 Via RHSA-2017:1790 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1790
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:1789 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1789
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:3392 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3392