Oracle's refusal to get specific about the vulnerabilities addressed by a recent patch increase the risk to customers, a pair of Gartner analysts alleged Thursday. . . .
Oracle's refusal to get specific about the vulnerabilities addressed by a recent patch increase the risk to customers, a pair of Gartner analysts alleged Thursday.

Gartner's Neil MacDonald and Rich Mogull said that Oracle has declined to provide more detailed information about the vulnerabilities that spawned a patch first released in August, then re-released in October. Although keeping mum is Oracle's standard policy, the analysts took the company to task for not spelling out the consequences of not applying the patch, and more important, whether the vulnerabilities affect older, non-supported versions of Oracle's Database Server, Application Server, and Enterprise Manager.

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