Oracle Developer Studio is a suite of compilers, debuggers, and analysis tools, and an integrated development environment (IDE), for developing, debugging, and tuning applications for the Oracle Solaris and Linux platforms. Like other development tools, the Oracle Developer Studio compilers and tools are intended to be used in an environment that is isolated from production environments since these tools can be accessed by users to manipulate applications during execution. While production environments are typically the focus of security considerations, developer tools and development environments should also be considered from a security perspective.
System administrators play an important role in determining which assets require protection and putting in place controls and policies to protect these assets. By itself, Oracle Developer Studio does not provide any access to assets or operating environment features that the user does not already have. The risk that Oracle Developer Studio adds is that it allows users who have gained un-entitled access to assets or systems by means that do not include Oracle Developer Studio to use the capabilities of the developer tools to cause a security breach.