Get ready for a bigger-than-usual Patch Tuesday this month.
October is one of Oracle's Critical Patch Update (CPU) months, and
there are usually more fixes in a CPU than there are Bulletins in the
average Microsoft or Adobe update.
That's because Oracle buffers up its fixes for a quarter at a time, instead of patching every month.
Oracle also publishes its patches on the Tuesday closest to the
middle of the month, which often gives you a week's breathing space
after Microsoft and Adobe go live on the second Tuesday.
But October 2014 starts on a Wednesday, which pushes the second
Tuesday far enough into the month to co-incide with Oracle's "mid-month"
calendar calculations.
As a result, Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft patches are all arriving together on Tuesday 14 October 2014.
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