Seeing "socket" exceptions for Oracle connections in EAP

Issue

JBoss EAP logs report errors such as the following:

java.sql.SQLRecoverableException: No more data to read from socket
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CMAREngine.unmarshalUB1(T4CMAREngine.java:1157)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:350)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:227)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:531)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.doOall8(T4CPreparedStatement.java:208)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.executeForRows(T4CPreparedStatement.java:1046)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1336)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeInternal(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3613)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.execute(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3714)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatementWrapper.execute(OraclePreparedStatementWrapper.java:1378)
        at org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.WrappedPreparedStatement.execute(WrappedPreparedStatement.java:404)
        ...

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
        at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:196) [rt.jar:1.7.0_51]
        at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:122) [rt.jar:1.7.0_51]
        at oracle.net.ns.Packet.receive(Packet.java:308)
        at oracle.net.ns.DataPacket.receive(DataPacket.java:106)
        at oracle.net.ns.NetInputStream.getNextPacket(NetInputStream.java:324)
        at oracle.net.ns.NetInputStream.read(NetInputStream.java:268)
        at oracle.net.ns.NetInputStream.read(NetInputStream.java:190)
        at oracle.net.ns.NetInputStream.read(NetInputStream.java:107)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CSocketInputStreamWrapper.readNextPacket(T4CSocketInputStreamWrapper.java:124)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CSocketInputStreamWrapper.read(T4CSocketInputStreamWrapper.java:80)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CMAREngine.unmarshalUB1(T4CMAREngine.java:1137)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:350)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:227)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:531)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CStatement.doOall8(T4CStatement.java:195)
        at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CStatement.executeForDescribe(T4CStatement.java:876)
        ...