diff -r 63e1a2ec30f5 -r 08aff438def8 jdk/src/share/classes/com/sun/jndi/toolkit/dir/SearchFilter.java
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/com/sun/jndi/toolkit/dir/SearchFilter.java	Tue Jul 01 15:12:59 2014 +0100
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/com/sun/jndi/toolkit/dir/SearchFilter.java	Tue Jul 01 14:44:37 2014 +0100
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@
         // used for substring comparisons (where proto has "*" wildcards
         private boolean substringMatch(String proto, String value) {
             // simple case 1: "*" means attribute presence is being tested
-            if(proto.equals(new Character(WILDCARD_TOKEN).toString())) {
+            if(proto.equals(Character.toString(WILDCARD_TOKEN))) {
                 if(debug) {System.out.println("simple presence assertion");}
                 return true;
             }