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Oracle Patch Batch Affects 'hundreds' of Products


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:11:39 -0500 (CDT)

http://www.csoonline.com/article/691961/oracle-patch-batch-affects-hundreds-of-product

By Chris Kanaracus
IDG News Service
October 18, 2011

Oracle on Tuesday will release 76 patches affecting hundreds of its products as well as Java SE.

Fifty-six of the patches are aimed at Oracle products, and due to the danger of a successful attack, customers should apply them immediately, Oracle said.

Affected products include Oracle's 11g and 10g database; Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Application Server 10g; E-Business Suite releases 12 and 11i; various versions of PeopleSoft Enterprise and Siebel CRM; Oracle Linux 5; and Oracle Sun Ray.

The most serious fix is for Oracle's Solaris OS. That vulnerability earned a 9.3 base score on the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System), the highest in the patch bundle.

None of the four database server patches can be exploited by a remote attacker without a password and username, Oracle said. However, the opposite is true for five of the 10 Fusion Middleware fixes and three of the ones for E-Business Suite.

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