Oracle Critical Patch Update - April 2012

A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. Critical Patch Update patches are usually cumulative but each advisory describes only the security fixes added since the previous Critical Patch Update advisory. Thus, prior Critical Patch Update advisories should be reviewed for information regarding earlier published security fixes. Please refer to:

Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts for information about Oracle Security Advisories.

Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply CPU fixes as soon as possible. This Critical Patch Update contains 88 new security fixes across the product families listed below.

Oracle released a Security Alert on January 31st, 2012 to address the security issue CVE-2011-5035, a denial of service vulnerability in multiple Oracle products due to hashing collisions. Please see Security Alert (CVE-2011-5035) for the list of affected products and patch availability information.