Mitigation Patch

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“The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it“:

• Part I – The OJVM Basics
• Part II – Important Notes and Information
• Part III – The Mitigation Patch
• Part IV – What you may have missed
• Part V – MOS Note explaining “Conditional Rolling Install” 
  

MOS Note released explaining patching without STARTUP UPGRADE mode

An important note regarding OJVM rolling patching has been published on MyOracle Support:

MOS Note: 2217053.1
RAC Rolling Install Process for the “Oracle JavaVM Component Database PSU” (OJVM PSU) Patches

“Beginning with the Jan2017 OJVM PSU patchset for 11.2.0.4 and

Related Posts on
“The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it“:

• Part I – The OJVM Basics
• Part II – Important Notes and Information
• Part III – The Mitigation Patch
• Part IV – What you may have missed
• Part V – MOS Note explaining “Conditional Rolling Install” 
  

What is missing with the “Mitigation Patch?

Michael, the team lead from a large Oracle customer mailed me the other day. He wanted to disable Java on all their +600 databases by using the Mitigation Patch for OJVM. But he received a strange error when trying to enable the …

Related Posts on
“The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it“:

• Part I – The OJVM Basics
• Part II – Important Notes and Information
• Part III – The Mitigation Patch
• Part IV – What you may have missed
• Part V – MOS Note explaining “Conditional Rolling Install” 
  

What is the “Mitigation Patch?

In MOS Note:1929745.1 – Oracle JavaVM Component Database Patches there’s a section called What is the Mitigation Patch. It says:
“For situations where the latest OJVM PSU cannot be installed immediately there is a “Mitigation Patch” that can be used. The “Mitigation …

Related Posts on
“The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it“:

• Part I – The OJVM Basics
• Part II – Important Notes and Information
• Part III – The Mitigation Patch
• Part IV – What you may have missed
• Part V – MOS Note explaining “Conditional Rolling Install” 
  

Important Notes

• MOS Note: 1929745.1 – Oracle JavaVM Component Database Patches
• MOS Note: 1940702.1 – Database JVM Vulnerabilities FAQ
• MOS Note: 2165212.1 – What to do if the Database JAVAVM Component becomes INVALID After installing an OJVM Patch?
  This Note contains a pretty detailed removal procedure for JAVAVM as

Related Posts on
“The OJVM Patching Saga – and how to solve it“:

• Part I – The OJVM Basics
• Part II – Important Notes and Information
• Part III – The Mitigation Patch
• Part IV – What you may have missed
• Part V – MOS Note explaining “Conditional Rolling Install” 
  

Who’s the Product Manager for Patching?

First of all, I’m neither a patching expert nor am I the Product Manager for Patching. There’s no such role as far as I know but there are people inside Oracle who have way more clue about this topic. There’s a group …