Oracle weblogic is the core component of Fussion Middleware products like, SOA, Forms and Reports, OBIEE etc.
Security is the most important part of running application and keeping applications away from vulnerabilities, its important that we apply Oracle recommended patches time to time on our FMW environments.
Patching 11g and older environments for weblogic with bsu, BSU tool can be used to view, install and remove the patches:
To check the installed patches
cd into <your installed middleware home DIR>/utils/bsu
sh bsu.sh -view -status=applied -prod_dir=<you installed middleware home DIR>/wlserver_10.3
for example:
./bsu -view -status=applied -prod_dir=/techsapps/prod/Middleware/wlserver_10.3
To remove the installed patches
cd into <your installed middleware home DIR>/utils/bsu
sh bsu.sh -remove -patchlist=<name of installed patch> -prod_dir=<you installed middleware home DIR>/wlserver_10.3
for example:
./bsu -remove -patchlist=ABCD -prod_dir=/techsapps/prod/Middleware/wlserver_10.3