Critical Oracle Patch

: "Oracle urges customers to apply critical update
January 19, 2005

By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Database maker Oracle released on Tuesday a single critical update for its database and Web application software that's designed to close nearly two dozen security holes. The update marks the first from the software maker to come out on a quarterly schedule.

The Critical Patch Update, available on the software company's Web site, is meant to fix 17 flaws in different versions of the Oracle Database Server, three flaws in Oracle's Application Server and another flaw in the Oracle Collaboration Server."