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Security patch fixes top dangers across 49 Oracle products
There’s a slew of new updates for Oracle software, with the April Critical Patch Update (CPU), containing 136 fixes for various vulnerabilities across the company’s portfolio, including issues within the Oracle Database Server, closing security flaws and preventing exploits that had previously left vulnerabilities.
According to ZDNet, the update provides security fixes for a total of 49 Oracle products. It’s also the first patch update released using Common Vulnerability Scoring Standard 3.0, rather than the previous 2.0. This new system has more consistent scoring and consideration for modern concerns, so it can promise a greater accuracy than an earlier update would have.
Five of the fixes in this new security release are for the Oracle Database Server, some of which allowed attackers to exploit them without authentication. Even more vulnerabilities within the Oracle Fusion Middleware allowed outside exploitation without authentication, but those too have been patched.
Several of the vulnerabilities Oracle has patched up were ranked as a top danger, with a CVSS rating of 10.00.
Users should download the patch now. The next Critical Patch Update is scheduled for July 2016.
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