At moments like this I am so VERY glad that I’m not a database administrator.
From Oracle:
This Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement provides advance information about the Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2012, which will be released on Tuesday, January 17, 2012. While this Pre-Release Announcement is as accurate as possible at the time of publication, the information it contains may change before publication of the Critical Patch Update Advisory.
A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. This Critical Patch Update contains 78 new security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of Oracle products. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in this Critical Patch Update affect multiple products. Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply Critical Patch Update fixes as soon as possible.
78 security patches. I’ll say that again. 78 oracle security patches. While I’m glad that they’re fixing their stuff it is just a little amazing that there are that many. And DBA’s being who they are will vacillate and come up with all kinds of reasons why they can’t apply patches as they still haven’t done the ones from 2010. In other words…job security for the rest of us.
Oh, and if that wasn’t enough there will also be 27 MySQL patches released at the same time.
Happy new year folks.
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