Oracle has released a new quarterly batch of security updates for more than 80 products from its software portfolio, fixing 276 vulnerabilities.
This is the largest Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) to date. The average number of flaws fixed per Oracle update last year was 161, according to security vendor Qualys. Furthermore, out of the 276 security flaws fixed in this update, 159 can be exploited remotely without authentication.
At the top of the priority list should be the Java patches, which address 13 new vulnerabilities. That’s because Java is used in a lot of applications and is installed on a large number of systems.
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