Oracle ships giant raft of patches - but none of them for Java

Oracle's latest Patch Tuesday has come and gone, with the database-and-more behemoth putting out patches for 89 vulnerabilities.
Twelve products sets in the Oracle stable get from 1 to 21 patches each. These squash a total of 45 RCEs, or Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/07/17/oracle-ships-giant-raft-of-patches-but-none-of-them-for-java/
Oracle ships giant raft of patches
In Oracle's own words, which are actually well chosen and plainly put, RCEs are defined as:
vulnerabilities [that] may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password.
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