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Date: 1st May 2008
Risk: High

Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update was issued on 16th April and contains 41 security fixes for multiple Oracle products.

17 of these vulnerabilities reside in the Oracle database. Amichai Shulman, Chief Technology Officer at database security vendor Imperva, said one of the database vulnerabilities fixed in the update allows an outside attacker to perform an activity in the database server without the activity being reported by the internal audit trail mechanism.

Oracle rated one of the Application Server vulnerabilities a 9.3 (out of 10) on its vulnerability scoring system. Oracle have said that this flaw, which is applicable to client-only installations, affects only the client portion of Oracle Application Server.

The next Oracle quarterly update will be issued on 15th July 2008.

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