Essential Security Update USN-4543-1 for PostgreSQL 12 on Ubuntu
debian
September 14, 2016
Dawid Golunski discovered that the mysqld_safe wrapper provided by the MySQL database server insufficiently restricted the load path for custom malloc implementations, which could ...
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Summary
The vulnerability was addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream
version 5.5.52, which includes additional changes, such as performance
improvements, bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible
changes. Please see the MySQL 5.5 Release Notes for further details:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-51.html
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-52.html
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.5.52-0+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mysql-5.5 packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: mysql-5.5
CVE ID: CVE-2016-6662
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