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An alternative would be to write the Image contents to a ByteArrayOutputStream, and using its writeTo() method to write the contents to the Servlet's Response. However that would require some additional memory, as the contents have to be buffered.

Are there any other corresponding cases of this bug?

The PDF generating software module PD4ML has had a corresponding problem when calling the render() methods in class org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4ML with response.getOutputStream() as argument. That causes the response stream to be closed from a finalizer() method of a class called PD4Device. When using an Apache/Tomcat connector, this unexpected stream close from the finalizer thread has occationally caused responses to be sent to wrong requestor (request/response mix up). The workarounds described above for ImageIO works perfectly in this case too. A general way to protect the response output streams from misbehaving web applications is to set the system property org.apache.catalina.connector.RECYCLE_FACADES=true, since that makes Tomcat create new stream instances for each request (of course at the cost of performance).

PD4ML has fixed this bug in their latest releases, but sites using older versions of the library can still be affected.