Hello, this is Bruce Lowenthal, Director of the Security Alerts Team. This note is to announce the publishing of the Pre-Release Announcement of the April 2007 Critical Patch Update (CPU). This Pre-Release Announcement provides a summary of the information that will be published as the April 2007 Critical Patch Update Advisory on April 17, 2007. It contains the following information:
- Name and version numbers of the Oracle products affected by new vulnerabilities that are fixed in the CPU
- Specific product components affected
- The number of vulnerabilities being fixing in total and in each suite
- The CVSS base score of the most severe vulnerability in total and in each suite. Note that CVSS scores for all vulnerabilities will be provided in the CPU Advisory itself.
- Additional information that may be relevant to help customers plan for the application of the CPU in their environment
While Oracle tries to make CPU Pre-Release Announcements as accurate as possible at the time of their publication, the information they contain may change before the actual publication of the CPU.
The April 2007 Critical Patch Update will be released on Tuesday, April 17th. The Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement can be found online on the Critical Patch Update and Security Alerts page on Oracle Technology Network.
