Attackers can execute arbitrary code without authentication if Oracle's Identity or Web Services Managers are exposed to the Web.

Oracle has released an out-of-band security update to fix a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Identity Manager and Web Services Manager tracked as CVE-2026-21992.

But compared to previous Oracle updates, the first security bulletin of 2008 is small, experts say. Last's October's bulletin contained more than 50 patches and experts say that they've seen updates ...

To patch or not to patch - that is the question for many software customers. And it's particularly tricky one to answer when the software company won't say what the patch is for, as one reader ...

Many database administrators don’t always apply security patches to their environments in a speedy fashion, but that’s not stopping Oracle Corp. from releasing dozens of them on a quarterly basis. The ...

Two-thirds of Oracle Database professionals are not applying critical patches, security company Sentrigo has found. In a survey of 305 Oracle professionals, Sentrigo found the majority did not apply ...

Oracle will release today 128 fixes for security vulnerabilities that affect "hundreds" of its products. The software giant and Java maker said in a pre-release announcement today that four of the ...

Oracle will issue 41 security patches next Tuesday addressing vulnerabilities across “hundreds” of its products, the company said in a pre-release announcement. More than 15 of those patches address ...

Last week it was Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, this week Oracle delivers a boatload of patches. In all, the company will release 27 updates for its database, e-business suite and application server. Also ...

On the surface, a recently published survey by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) bears some seemingly frightening numbers. According to the study, which was conducted during the middle of 2008 ...

If Oracle’s licensing terms never struck you as invidious before, you might soon change your mind. The upshot is that anyone who applies the latest patches and isn’t conscientious enough to determine ...