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April 10, 2007 5:11 PM PDT

Oracle patches to fix 37 flaws

Oracle next week plans to release fixes for 37 security flaws across all its products, the company said Tuesday.

The fixes will be delivered April 17 as part of Oracle's quarterly patch cycle. Seven of the bugs are serious and could allow a system running the vulnerable Oracle software to be compromised remotely, the company said in a note on its Web site.

This is the second time Oracle is giving a heads-up on patches. The first such advance notice was in January. Microsoft has been giving customers a similar early warning since late 2004. Both companies have put their patches on a schedule so customers know when to expect them. The early warning is meant to allow for extra preparedness.

Oracle's advance notification goes further than Microsoft's, which only states the product family for which patches will be released and gives a broad indication of bug severity. Oracle also lists the number of vulnerabilities it plans to patch and gives details of which products and components will get fixes.

Oracle's "Critical Patch Update" is planned to include 13 fixes for Oracle database products, five for Application Server, 11 for E-Business Suite, and four for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards products, according to Oracle's note.

In January, Oracle released fixes for 51 vulnerabilities.

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Monopoly!!!!!!
by Kings X Rocks! April 11, 2007 5:29 AM PDT
How can people continue purchasing these products? We though 95 was bad, then all the exploits of XP and now Vista...

WAIT A MINUTE!! This article was about Windows flaws, wasn't it???

Sorry Mr. Ellison...
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Oracle - Google's Gadgets
by faouzialim April 11, 2007 7:52 AM PDT
But is the Oracle's boeugs has a relation with the implementation of Google's Gadget, that Oracle has plan to insert with some of his products ?
Portail généraliste
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Wait a minute now!!!
by wbenton April 14, 2007 10:08 AM PDT
Oracle is probably the ONLY company in the world whom can actually claim that their security is probably far more worse off than Microsoft.

I mean... worse than Microsoft... that in itself is an achievement worthy of something... (* GRIN *)

Only problem is... I can't seem to figure out what that "something" might be. (* CHUCKLE *)

Walt
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