We have recently run into a patch, marked as security related (and therefor required by many governmental agencies), on the patch site for many months as the latest revision, depended on by other patches, and contains a catastrophic issue for oracle database servers. The fact this was known inside Oracle for several months and seen as tolerable by Oracle, is rather disconcerting. My take away message from this, is that security related patches can no longer be assumed to be well tested or unimpactful, nor can the readme files be trusted (at least until the absorption of Sun into Oracle gets better ironed out, if ever.)
This places much more pressure on our development and testing environments, for what was for to here routine. Jeff ☺ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 6:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: pca Digest, Vol 48, Issue 3 Send pca mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/pca or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of pca digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: can patch 147440-09 be trusted ? (Martin Paul) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:52:56 +0100 From: Martin Paul <[email protected]> To: [email protected], "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [pca] can patch 147440-09 be trusted ? Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Dennis Clarke wrote: > I guess really the question is, can MOS and Oracle be trusted to > provide a kernel patch that won't make things far worse? I can't answer that, but I agree in that the bug descriptions have become pretty useless recently (since Oracle took over?). Like revision 04 of 145080 ("SunOS 5.10: Firefox 3 patch") which reads: Problem Description: 7030533 problem with Firefox browser Never would've guessed that the patch for firefox would fix a problem with firefox. Martin. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pca mailing list [email protected] https://lists.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/pca End of pca Digest, Vol 48, Issue 3 **********************************
