SUSE CVE-2009-2673

The proxy mechanism implementation in Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15, and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20, allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and connect to arbitrary sites via unspecified vectors, related to a declaration that lack...

Privilege Escalation

JRE proxy implementation is vulnerable to privilege escalation. Two flaws were found in the JRE proxy implementation. An untrusted applet or application could use these flaws to discover the usernames of users running applets and applications, or obtain web browser cookies and use them for sessio...