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This is the weblog for Pete Finnigan. Pete works in the area of Oracle security and he specialises in auditing Oracle databases for security issues. This weblog is aimed squarely at those interested in the security of their Oracle databases.

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Alex has an analysis of CPU July 2006 and also advisories



Alex has released an interesting analysis page for CPU July 2006. The page is titled "Details Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2006 - V1.00" and covers some overview details of what has been fixed and details of the following bug fixes:

"DB21 - SYS.DBMS_STATS"
"DB22 - SYS.DBMS_UPGRADE"
"DB01 - SYS.DBMS_CDC_IMPDP"
"DB03 - SYS.KUPW$WORKER"
"DB06 - DBMS_EXPORT_EXTENSION"

Alex has also indicated that DB05, DB07 and DB16 are his as well but no advisories are there yet.

Also some of the bugs shown here detail the functions or procedures that are at fault.