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Flaws in Oracle file processing SDKs affect major third-party products

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Seventeen high-risk vulnerabilities out of the 276 flaws fixed by Oracle Tuesday affect products from third-party software vendors, including Microsoft.

The vulnerabilities were found by researchers from Cisco’s Talos team and are located in the Oracle Outside In Technology (OIT), a collection of software development kits (SDKs) that can be used to extract, normalize, scrub, convert and view some 600 unstructured file formats.

These SDKs, which are part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware, are licensed to other software developers who then use them in their own products. Such products include Microsoft Exchange, Novell Groupwise, IBM WebSphere Portal, Google Search Appliance, Avira AntiVir for Exchange, Raytheon SureView, Guidance Encase and Veritas Enterprise Vault.

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Oracle settles FTC dispute over Java updates

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Oracle CSO to customers: we don’t need your (false positive) bug reports

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Mary Ann Davidson

Oracle’s CSO thinks customers who reverse-engineer its code in attempts to find bugs should cut it out because they’re not finding much worth acting on and, more importantly, they’re violating their licensing agreements.

The condescending tone of the blog that sets down her objections rankled readers – and presumably customers – so much so that Oracle took it down, but not before it was cached.

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Network World Tim Greene

Cyberwarfare Threat To Websites and Financial System – The Market Oracle

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Cyberwarfare Threat To Websites and Financial System
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