Oracle Patch Testing

[Damieon Stark <visigoth () securitycentric com>]

NGS Krew,  (oh yea.. and the rest of you too ;)

Anybody know of a uniform way to test for a particular patch in
Oracle instances?  The question assumes that one is NOT using
an Oracle management server or 3rd party patching tools...

Ideally, I'm lookin for some kind of:
SELECT * from PATCH_TABLE where patch_id='12345'

but haven't been able to find it.

If there is no standard way, perhaps all of the testing/auditing
software out there is researching test methods per patch?  This
just doesn't seem reasonable to me...

TIA,

-visigoth

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