Oracle Tackles a Massive 405 Bugs for Its April Quarterly Patch Update

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Oracle admins are staring down the barrel of a massive quarterly Critical Patch Update that includes 405 patches.
 
Business software giant Oracle Corp. revealed 286 of those vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable across nearly two dozen product lines.
 
Impacted with multiple critical flaws, rated 9.8 CVSS in severity, are 13 key Oracle products including Oracle Financial Services Applications, Oracle MySQL, Oracle Retail Applications and Oracle Support Tools, according to the company’s April Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement, posted Monday.
 
Each of the bugs will be addressed with mitigation advice or patches by Oracle on Tuesday, coinciding with Microsoft’s April’s Patch Tuesday release of fixes. That will keep system and network admins taxed with a flood of critical vulnerabilities to contend with.

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