Oracle Security Patches: October 2010

Oracle has released its October enterprise products critical patches:  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2010-175626.html.  Its enterprise products include Oracle database which is deemed critical by many Linux shops.  Oracle provides a risk matrix for the seven new security fixes to its database product at:  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2010-175626.html#AppendixDB

The top risks that Oracle are fixing are network based and are considered simple to exploit (with the highest requiring no user privileges.)

Time for patching…