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Finance industry faces serious IT security issues

23rd June 2008 The finance industry needs to keep its eye on the small change as well as the bigger picture of its security vulnerabilities Read More

Retail sector faces serious IT security issues

23rd June 2008 The retail sector needs to set out its stall and ring the changes in its security vulnerabilities if it is to avoid the potential for hackers to gain unauthorised system access and disrupt service availability Read More

IT managers have more security headaches to deal with

11th May 2008 NTA Monitor's 2008 Annual Security Report has revealed that the average number of vulnerabilities found per test have increased to 21 compared with 19 in 2007 Read More

Solutions not excuses for patch management warns NTA Monitor

23rd April 2008 Patch management is a vital security requirement for any organsation Read More
Date: 1st May 2007
Risk: High

Oracle has issued patches for 37 vulnerabilities in its database and e-business suite as well as JD Edwards and PeopleSoft products. Still, at least it's a little better than the last time Oracle released a batch of fixes; in January it issued patches for 51 vulnerabilities.

Oracle rates its vulnerabilities by assigning a score based on its Common Vulnerability Scoring System. The highest available score is 10 and although no vulnerability has ever been rated that highly by Oracle, a core RDBMS vulnerability is rated as a 7.0, the highest score ever for an Oracle product.

The Critical Patch Update contains full vulnerability details and is available at:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuapr2007.html

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