Sun Java Jdk / Jre Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities

Highly critical

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Sun Java, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, or compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the JRE SOCKS proxy implementation can be exploited by untrusted applets or untrusted Java Web Start applications to obtain the username of the user running the applet or application.

2) An error in the JRE proxy mechanism implementation can be exploited by untrusted applets or untrusted Java Web Start applications to obtain browser cookies.

3) An error in the JRE proxy mechanism implementation can be exploited by untrusted applets or untrusted Java Web Start applications to establish connections to normally restricted hosts.

4) An error in the Microsoft Visual Studio Active Template Library (ATL) used by the Java Web Start ActiveX control can be exploited to execute arbitrary code when a user visits a specially crafted web page.

Secunia advisories - http://secunia.com/advisories/36159/