Oracle Patch Advisories describe critical software patches for Oracle products. To help ensure a secure and reliable configuration, all relevant and current critical Oracle patches should be applied.
To promote critical patch application, Enterprise Manager performs an assessment of vulnerabilities by examining the host configurations collected for your enterprise to determine the Oracle homes that require one or more critical patches to be installed.
On this page, all the Critical Patch Advisories are listed with their corresponding Impact areas, a brief description of each advisory, the number of Affected Hosts and Oracle homes for each advisory.
Note: The Patches To Apply, and Patchsets To Apply tables list all the available patches/patchsets in the ascending order. That is, the patches/patchsets released last are listed first, and those with the previous releases are listed after.
In this release, Critical Patch Advisories also provides support for Remedies. When you select an advisory, you can view the calculated remedies from the context of that Advisory, as well as the affected Oracle homes. Click Advisory to view the selected Critical Patch Advisory details are displayed.
This page also lists the available Patchsets and Interim Patches to be applied, along with the corresponding product, version, platform, and the number of Oracle homes on which these patches/patchsets are applicable.
For more information about setting up and managing critical patch advisories with Enterprise Manager, see Managing Critical Patch Advisories, which explains:
Necessary steps to enable Enterprise Manager to provide critical patch advisories
How to view critical patch advisories
How to apply critical patches to Oracle homes
Related Topics
Specifying Patching Credentials
Managing Critical Patch Advisories
Enterprise Manager Information Roadmap
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