According to CRN Oracle has dumped a load of 237 patches for the Spectre and Meltdown bugs:
Oracle laid a big job at the feet of its partners when it posted dozens of software patches to close Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.
The software giant based in Redwood Shores, Calif. introduced 237 patches in all on Tuesday for on-premises software spanning a vast portfolio of enterprise applications, databases, middleware and development environments.
Managed services partners in the coming days will need to secure customer environments by implementing the array of fixes, making sure to identify all affected products deployed in the field.
That’s why my initial reaction was that this could be a near-death experience for Intel. Microsoft and Oracle are just two of the major corporate players who are being forced to push out patches to their partners on a priority basis and their partners will need to start applying them on a priority basis. All of this costs money.
And it’s all a consequence of failures of workmanship.
