Oracle’s July Critical Patch Update included fixes for 308 vulnerabilities, 165 of which are remotely exploitable.

Oracle today in its Critical Patch Update addressed a critical vulnerability in its Oracle E-Business Suite of business applications that allows for the download of business documents.

Oracle released a record 299 patches, including a fix for a Solaris vulnerability disclosed by the ShadowBrokers, and another for the recently disclosed Apache Struts 2 flaw.

Oracle’s quarterly Critical Patch Updates (CPU) are known for their daunting volume, usually a disproportionately big number of fixes that database and system administrators have to deal with every three months. Yesterday’s CPU, however, takes the cake. Oracle pushed out the door a record 248 patches on Tuesday, for vulnerabilities across its product lines. That...