Olle, Solar Designer, oss-security list:
I am responsible for the content and publication of Oracle Critical
Patch Updates. These are published quarterly in three formats: Tabular
format HTML "AKA risk matrix", English Language HTML format and Oasis
Standard CSAF format via references at Oracle's Critical Patch Updates,
Security Alerts and Bulletins home page at
* https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/
This home page references individual quarterly reports and provides
other information regarding our security program. In addition, that
page provides instructions allowing anyone to sign up to receive eMail
announcing when Oracle Critical Patch Updates and other security
advisories are published. See:
* Instructions for subscribing to email notifications
<https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/securityemail.html>of
Critical Patch Update Advisories and Security Alerts.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly.
Bruce
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On 1/22/25 11:50 PM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
Bruce,
For your information.
/O
Begin forwarded message:
*From: *Solar Designer <so...@openwall.com>
*Subject: **[oss-security] Oracle January 2025 Critical Patch Update*
*Date: *23 January 2025 at 03:42:22 CET
*To: *oss-security@lists.openwall.com
*Reply-To: *oss-security@lists.openwall.com
Hi,
Once in a while, Oracle publishes what they call Critical Patch Update
documents, which list many vulnerabilities addressed across many Oracle
products, some of them Open Source and some not. This is great, but it
would be even better if Oracle also communicated to oss-security about
those vulnerabilities in its Open Source products, perhaps one message
per product (e.g., MySQL separately from VirtualBox). I hope someone
from Oracle reads this and will get the wheels moving. Anyone?
Meanwhile, the latest Critical Patch Update is:
https://blogs.oracle.com/security/post/january-2025-cpu-released
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2025.html
For MySQL, it says:
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2025.html#AppendixMSQL
"Oracle MySQL Risk Matrix
This Critical Patch Update contains 39 new security patches, plus
additional third party patches noted below, for Oracle MySQL. 4 of
these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without
authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without requiring
user credentials. The English text form of this Risk Matrix can be
found here."
and links to:
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2025verbose.html#MSQL
and lists additional information on some CVEs not included in the matrix
itself (duplicate or not vulnerable). With so many CVEs, all of this is
rather long, but I imagine someone from Oracle - or someone external -
could copy-paste the "English text form of this Risk Matrix" and the
extra notes on a few CVEs to a separate message focusing on MySQL.
Similarly, there's info on a couple of VirtualBox CVEs here, which would
ideally be a separate message with copy-pasted detail:
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2025.html#AppendixOVIR
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2025verbose.html#OVIR
Perhaps there's more Open Source software listed in there, which needs
similar treatment. Not only this time, but each time, please.
Alexander
