Hi Ruth, This is related to the first quarterly patch set release. NGS are probably one of many researchers who have found security bugs that are to be fixed in this patch. I have not checked for 30 minutes or so, but there was no news of the patch release or advisory from Oracle yet. NGS posted this at 3:30PM UK time probably in anticipation of the well announced Jan 18 patch release. Kind regards Pete -- Pete Finnigan (email:pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Web site: http://www.petefinnigan.com - Oracle security audit specialists Oracle security blog: http://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/entries/index.html Book:Oracle security step-by-step Guide - see http://store.sans.org for details. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l