60 per cent of fixes in Oracle's October CPU were aimed at business-critical apps

Tom Allen
Tom Allen
clock 18 October 2017 •
More than 70 per cent of vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely
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More than 70 per cent of vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely

Oracle has closed 1,119 issues in the first 10 months of 2017; 22 per cent more than all of 2016

Oracle has fixed a security vulnerability in its PeopleSoft business application rated 9.8/10 for criticality by the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), in its October Critical Patch Update (CPU)....

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