why would you not patch to 8174?. Oracle do occasionally backport patches,
but It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to patch the current versions.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"I.A. Saez" <i.a.saez.scheihingGEENSPAM_at_tue.nl> wrote in message
news:3E50B15D.3A7BD962_at_tue.nl...
> Hi people,
>
> I would like to hear you opinion about this: there is a new
> vulnaribility in Oracle (Oracle9i Database Release 2, Oracle9i Database
> Release 1, Oracle8i Database v 8.1.7, Oracle Database v 8.0.6). And
> there is a patch for it, 2642117, but it the case of 8i it is for
> 8.1.7.4. If we would like to patch the problem (we run 8.1.7.2 ) then
> we are forced to upgrade to 8.1.7.4. Has Oracle stopped with patch for
> version lower than 8.1.7.4?
>
> kind regards,
>
> Ivan
>
Received on Mon Feb 17 2003 - 05:04:20 CST
