Oracle monthly patches.Oracle have released a number of patches as it moves to a monthly release schedule. These include patches related to versions 10g, 9i and 8i of its Database Server and versions 10g and 9i of its Application Server available on via its MetaLink website. Some of the patches fix issues that have been outstanding for seven months. The vulnerabilities range from buffer overflow A common cause of malfunctioning software. If the amount of data written into a buffer exceeds the size of the buffer, the additional data will be written into adjacent areas, which could be buffers, constants, flags or variables. issues, PL/SQL (Procedural Language/SQL) A programming language from Oracle that is used to write triggers and stored procedures that are executed by the Oracle DBMS. It is also used to add additional processing (sorting and other manipulation) of the data that has been returned by Injection, trigger abuse, character set conversion bugs and denial of service A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack. . NGSS NGSS Northrop Grumman Ship Systems NGSS Next Generation Security Software NGSS Next Generation Satellite Systems NGSS Next Generation Surveillance System NGSS Next-Generation Switching Silicon NGSS Now Go Sell Something NGSS Next Generation SONET/SDH . Oracle planned to release all patches on a monthly basis, but has still to set to a regular date. Last October, Microsoft began issuing software patches on a single day each month. www.oracle.com |
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