Security vulnerabilities addressed by this Critical Patch Update affect the products listed below. Please note that an MOS note summarizing the content of this Critical Patch Update and other Oracle Software Security Assurance activities is located at January 2020 Critical Patch Update: Executive Summary and Analysis. This Critical Patch Update contains 334 new security patches across the product families listed below. Oracle therefore strongly recommends that customers remain on actively-supported versions and apply Critical Patch Update security patches without delay.

In some instances, it has been reported that attackers have been successful because targeted customers had failed to apply available Oracle patches. Oracle continues to periodically receive reports of attempts to maliciously exploit vulnerabilities for which Oracle has already released security patches. Critical Patch Updates, Security Alerts and Bulletins for information about Oracle Security Advisories.Thus, prior Critical Patch Update advisories should be reviewed for information regarding earlier published security patches. These patches are usually cumulative, but each advisory describes only the security patches added since the previous Critical Patch Update advisory. Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2020 DescriptionĪ Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities.