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Date: 1st November 2008
Risk: High

Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update was issued on 15th October and contains 36 security fixes for multiple Oracle products.

The update includes 15 fixes for the Database Suite. According to the advisory one of the flaws is remotely exploitable without authentication.

Oracle also pushes out six patches for the Application Server Suite, four for the Applications Suite, five for PeopleSoft Enterprise and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and six for the BEA Products Suite.

The most severe vulnerability corrected was one affecting the Apache plugin for Oracle WebLogic Server.

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