Oracle 41 security patches
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January 8, 2009 (Computerworld) Oracle Corp. will issue 41 security patches next Tuesday addressing vulnerabilities across "hundreds" of its products, the company said in a pre-release announcement.
The updates fix vulnerabilities across "hundreds of Oracle products", an alert from Oracle warns.
Highlights include nine critical bug fixes for Oracle Secure Backup, all of which might lend themselves to remote exploitation, and two critical fixes for Oracle Application Server. There's also five critical updates for Oracle BEA WebLogic server software packages."
More than 15 of those patches address flaws that were described by the company as being remotely executable without the need for authentication -- a class of vulnerability to which Oracle usually assigns its highest severity rating. Of these, nine are slated for Oracle Secure Backup, two for its Application Server product and five for its BEA Product Suite.
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