Oracle Halloween Security Scares

The October 2019 Oracle Critical Patch Update is out, and even though Halloween is coming up, this one is actually less scary than usual.

The Oracle database gets off lightly this time, with the worst vulnerability (CVE-2019-2909) scoring "only" 6.8 on the 10-point CVSS version 3 risk scale. Java is also not hard hit, with the worst being two 6.8 vulner…