Update: Oracle and OpenSSL ‘Heartbleed’ vulnerability
While writing a post about the new Critical Patch Advisory I’ve discovered, that Oracle made the Information about the OpenSSL Vulnerability publicly available. The information in MOS Note 1645479.1...
View ArticleAudit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2
Oracle has just released a new Release of its Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. The new release is immediately available on Oracle’s Software Delivery Cloud. It look’s like Oracle added a bunch...
View ArticleTrivadis PL/SQL & SQL CodeChecker
A couple of days ago Trivadis released the Trivadis PL/SQL & SQL CodeChecker (tvdcc) as SQL Developer Extension. TVDCC does check the editor content for compliance violations of the Trivadis PL/SQL...
View ArticleAVDF installation ISO
Due to some problems during the installation of Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 (see AVDF installation fails on HP server with Smart Array Disk Controller), I’ve looked at the AVDF ISO...
View ArticleAVDF installation fails on HP server with Smart Array Disk Controller
I’ve successfully set up a couple of AVDF installation on different VM Server as well on HP Blade or Rack servers. On the VM server I never had any problems. For the installation of AVDF 12.1.1.x on HP...
View ArticleUpdate: AVDF installation fails on HP server with Smart Array
A couple of days ago I’ve wrote about some problems when installing Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 on HP server with Smart Array Disk Controller. The problem is still not resolved, but...
View ArticleOracle passwords and special characters
As commonly known passwords should have a certain complexity. Thereby it is common to use special characters, numbers, lower and uppercase characters. Depending on the type of special characters Oracle...
View ArticleRelease of Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 Bundle Patch 1
Earlier today, Oracle has released the first Bundle Patch for Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2. The patch can be downloaded on Oracle Metalink as Patchset 18728905 for existing installations or...
View ArticleOracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement July 2014
Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement for the July 2014 Critical Patch Update. It looks like that the next Critical Patch Update is somewhat more extensive from the database point of view....
View ArticleSecure External Password Store for RMAN
The draft version of this blog post is lying around for some time in my inbox. I've never found time to finish it. But due to a task in a project it's about time to finish my notes on Oracle's Secure...
View ArticleOracle 12.1.0.2.0 Patchset released
Oracle has released the first patchset 12.1.0.2.0 for Oracle 12c Release 1. Or at least partially released on Oracle Software Delivery Cloud eDelivery.oracle.com. So far the patch set is only available...
View ArticleUpdate: Oracle 12.1.0.2.0 Patchset released
I finally found some time to update my blog post on Oracle 12.1.0.2.0 Patchset released. Beside the list of new features, I have included a number of links related to this patch set.
View ArticleRelease of Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 Bundle Patch 2
End of last week, Oracle has released the second Bundle Patch for Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2. I’ve missed the release due to public holiday here in Switzerland. The patch can be...
View ArticleOracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement January 2015
Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement for the first Critical Patch Update in 2015. This Critical Patch Update contains 167 new security vulnerability fixes across all Oracle products. It...
View ArticleRelease of Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 Bundle Patch 5
Today Oracle released the new Bundle Patch for Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2. The patch can be downloaded as usual on Oracle Metalink as Patchset 20829881 for existing installations. The...
View ArticleDOAG SIG Security Munich 2015
Just finished my presentation about Unified Audit at the DOAG SIG Security in München. It is about Oracle Unified Audit and a few considerations for migrating old standard audit to new policy based...
View ArticleOracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement July 2015
Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement for the July Critical Patch Update. This Critical Patch Update contains 193 new security vulnerability fixes across all Oracle products. It looks like...
View ArticleMemory Leak in Network Checksum with new SHA-2 Functions
I’ve just stumbled over an issue with the new checksum algorithm introduced with Oracle 12c. It seams that in certain situation the new SHA-2 function cause a memory leak. A search on My Oracle Support...
View ArticleWALLET_LOCATION in sqlnet.ora for Container Databases
Recently I’ve setup Oracle Enterprise User Security (EUS) with Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) on my favorite linux test system. Among regular 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2 databases I do also have a 12.1.0.2...
View ArticleRelease of Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 Bundle Patch 7
Today Oracle released the new Bundle Patch for Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2. The patch can be downloaded as usual on Oracle Metalink as Patchset 21920205 for existing installations. The...
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