An insecure class construction flaw, related to the incorrect handling of exception stack frames, was found in the Hotspot component of OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.
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 and 7u131.
OpenJDK 8 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/02a3d0dcbedd
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: 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 Satellite 5.6 Red Hat Satellite 5.7 Via RHSA-2017:1216 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1216