Hi Oracle Security Folks, Following the tradition for one off Java Security Alerts Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2013-1493: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2013-1493-1915081.html The reporters http://blog.fireeye.com/research/2013/02/yaj0-yet-another-java-zero-day-2.html say it is an unreliable exploit. Of course it depends on Java being used in the browser so one fix is to unplug the JVM [...]
Hi, It is good to check the integrity or health of a system to avoid future problems. DBMS_HM.RUN_CHECK(‘Dictionary Integrity Check’, ‘my_run’); SET LONG 100000 SET LONGCHUNKSIZE 1000 SET PAGESIZE 1000 SET LINESIZE 512 SELECT DBMS_HM.GET_RUN_REPORT(‘MY_RUN’) from dual; SQL> SELECT DBMS_HM.GET_RUN_REPORT(‘MY_RUN’) from dual; DBMS_HM.GET_RUN_REPORT(‘MY_RUN’) ——————————————————————————- ——————————————————————————- ——————————————————————————- ——————————————————————————- Basic Run Information Run Name : my_run Run [...]
New Year – New vulnerabilities…yes it’s alert season again, with the main patch out on the 15th, but an out of band alert today for the Java 0 day. It is good to see Oracle taking this well publicised issue so seriously. Here is the alert – http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html For an excellent advanced analysis please see [...]