One of those features-turned-bugs situation (ala the recent one in pdf) :

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Apr/119

It's incredible that Oracle (that looks funny to my eyes when talking about 
Java) doesn't think it's a big enough issue to put out an out-of-band patch.  

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/193946/nifty_java_bug_could_lead_to_attack.html

It's also incredible that people don't think JRE attacks are part of standard 
browser exploit toolkits...

"Java has not been exploited to any extent that should worry the average 
consumer, heck, or business for that matter," he said via instant message."

Tavis's PoC:
http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/bb5eafbc6c6e67e11c4afc88b4e1dd22/testcase.html

Alex


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