Oracle announced last week that it will be adding its Solaris suite of products to its quarterly Critical Patch Update cycle. This is a move that will be well-received by end users, as it means that Sun Microsoft users will known months in advance if their systems need patching.
It’s a great improvement for Sun users. Prior to the Oracle takeover, security updates for products were released on an ad-hoc, rather haphazard basis, meaning headaches for IT staff.
This quarter’s patch update will go out this week. Oracle has certainly wasted no time in bringing Solaris products into line, having only acquired Sun in January this year. In a statement, an Oracle spokesperson said: "Starting April 2010, the Critical Patch Update includes security vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris.
"This Critical Patch Update contains 47 new security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of Oracle products. 16 out of 47 vulnerabilities are in Sun Solaris."
Eight of the 16 security fixes scheduled for Solaris are for vulnerabilities which may be "remotely exploited without authentication", or in other words without the need for a network user name and password, the software giant said.
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