CPU October 2019 Patch Bundles are available

As of Oct 15, 2019, the CPU October 2019 Patch Bundles are available for download. So let me do the quarterly exercise to download and install all of them into my various environments.

Critical Patch Alert October 2019

At first, I check the Alert and the Risk Matrix whether critical issues with a high risk score are included. I will install the patch bundles anyway, but I’m curious. In my particular case I will take care on the database only. You of course will check for other products you are using, too.

• Critical Patch Update Advisory October 2019
• Oracle Database Server RISK MATRIX, versions 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.1, 18c, 19c

The Risk Matrix for the database shows a “relatively” low security risk this time. If you don’t have OJVM in your database, the highest score for the RDBMS is 5.7 but has 3 other 5.0 scores in addition. Hence, I would strongly recommend to apply it.

This is not something you should ignore but the previous July 2019 patch bundles fixed a 9.8 score issue with the database.

Downloading the Patch Bundles

There are two routes to download the correct patches:

• MOS Note: 2118136.2 (Assistant: Download Reference for Oracle Database/GI Update, Revision, PSU, SPU(CPU), Bundle Patches, Patchsets and Base Releases)
• Find the Database Patch Bundles here – MOS Note: 2568292.1 (Critical Patch Update (CPU) Program Oct 2019 Patch Availability Document (PAD))

These are the ones I will download for my installations (I don’t have OJVM installed anywhere). I’m on Linux-64bit.

• Database Update 19.5.0.0.191015 Patch 30125133 for UNIX
  • Readme
  • Opatch 12.2.0.1.17 minimum required
• Database Update 18.8.0.0.191015 Patch 30112122 for UNIX
  • Readme
  • Opatch 12.2.0.1.17 minimum required
• Database Oct 2019 Update 12.2.0.1.191015 Patch 30138470 for UNIX
  • Readme
  • Opatch 12.2.0.1.17 minimum required
• Database Proactive Bundle Patch 12.1.0.2.191015 Patch 30070242 for UNIX
  
  • Readme
  • Opatch 12.2.0.1.17 minimum required
• Database PSU 11.2.0.4.191015 Patch 29913194 for UNIX
  • Readme
  • Opatch 11.2.0.3.20 minimum required

In my next blog post I will show you how to apply all these patches. And check whether I can apply all of them flawless 🙂

Read here how I applied all October 2019 Patch Bundles to my homes and databases:

• Patching all my environments with the October 2019 Patch Bundles

–Mike