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Vulnerability assessment missing patches (CPU vs PSU)

edited Aug 24, 2016 5:00AM in Database Administration (MOSC) 5 commentsAnswered

Hi all,

We performed a vulnerability assessment of a database and it retuned that the following patches were missing:

Database Patch Set Update (PSU)   Database Security Patch Set Update (SPU)

14390396                                         14275629

14841459                                         14727319

16270946                                         16056270

13632738                                         13632743

16742123                                         16619894

The DBA said that, since we are using CPUs to maintain the database up to date, the missing patches are not really an issue. From the literature we read it looks like using CPUs vs PSUs is more of a "philosophical" approach and that there is no absolute right or wrong. However, we would like to understand whether this database is actually vulnerable and whether the DBA needs to install (at least) the SPUs. Could you please help us? (please find below the OPatch inventory)?

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