Database server giant Oracle on April 18 shipped its scheduled quarterly critical update with fixes for 36 vulnerabilities in several enterprise-facing products.

The mega update includes a fix for a gaping flaw in the Oracle PL/SQL Gateway that was reported to Oracle more than six months ago and was the subject of a war of words between Oracle and database security expert David Litchfield at the Black Hat Federal security conference earlier in 2006.

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