Transparent HugePages on several Linux kernels should be turned off

Even though the document "ALERT: Disable Transparent HugePages on SLES11, RHEL6, RHEL7, OL6, OL7 and UEK2 Kernels" in note ID 1557478.1 on MOS has been out there for years, it is still good information to have that the Transparent HugePages (not regular HugePages) feature is enabled by default AND that it can cause instability in RAC or non-RAC environments!  Since Oracle recommends turning this off in all your database machines, do you know if it is off in your systems?

ALERT: Bash vulnerability and Oracle products

Coming straight from Oracle Security Alert CVE-2014-7169, is the notice that the GNU Bash shell command line for Unix/Linux has a newly released vulnerability which will allow an unauthenticated user session to run code.  There are many products like Exadata, Solaris and Linux which do have a patch available to fix this (Exadata was not patched earlier this morning, unless I missed something) but there is a long list of Oracle application which do not yet have patches.  Follow the link to find all the details!