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Oracle October 2024 Critical Patch Update Addresses 198 CVEs
Oracle addresses 198 CVEs in its fourth quarterly update of 2024 with 334 patches, including 35 critical updates.
Background
On October 15, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2024, the fourth and final quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 198 CVEs in 334 security updates across 28 Oracle product families. Out of the 334 security updates published this quarter, 10.5% of patches were assigned a critical severity. High severity patches accounted for the bulk of security patches at 44.6%, followed by medium severity patches at 39.5%.
This quarter’s update includes 35 critical patches across 16 CVEs.
| Severity | Issues Patched | CVEs |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 35 | 16 |
| High | 149 | 86 |
| Medium | 132 | 80 |
| Low | 18 | 16 |
| Total | 334 | 198 |
Analysis
This quarter, the Oracle Commerce product family contained the highest number of patches at 100, accounting for 29.9% of the total patches, followed by Oracle Hyperion at 45 patches, which accounted for 13.5% of the total patches.
A full breakdown of the patches for this quarter can be seen in the following table, which also includes a count of vulnerabilities that can be exploited over a network without authentication.
| Oracle Product Family | Number of Patches | Remote Exploit without Authentication |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Commerce | 100 | 81 |
| Oracle Hyperion | 45 | 12 |
| Oracle Financial Services Applications | 32 | 25 |
| Oracle E-Business Suite | 20 | 15 |
| Oracle Communications Applications | 18 | 1 |
| Oracle SQL Developer | 13 | 10 |
| Oracle Food and Beverage Applications | 12 | 7 |
| Oracle Java SE | 12 | 2 |
| Oracle Secure Backup | 9 | 5 |
| Oracle Hospitality Applications | 8 | 8 |
| Oracle Autonomous Health Framework | 7 | 4 |
| Oracle Communications | 7 | 3 |
| Oracle Siebel CRM | 7 | 5 |
| Oracle Database Server | 6 | 2 |
| Oracle Systems | 5 | 0 |
| Oracle Essbase | 4 | 1 |
| Oracle MySQL | 4 | 4 |
| Oracle Application Express | 3 | 1 |
| Oracle Enterprise Manager | 3 | 3 |
| Oracle Fusion Middleware | 3 | 3 |
| Oracle Analytics | 3 | 1 |
| Oracle Retail Applications | 3 | 3 |
| Oracle Supply Chain | 3 | 3 |
| Oracle Graph Server and Client | 2 | 2 |
| Oracle PeopleSoft | 2 | 2 |
| Oracle Blockchain Platform | 1 | 1 |
| Oracle GoldenGate | 1 | 0 |
| Oracle NoSQL Database | 1 | 1 |
Solution
Customers are advised to apply all relevant patches in this quarter’s CPU. Please refer to the October 2024 advisory for full details.
Identifying affected systems
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