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Ubuntu 11.10 USN-1397-1 Urgent: MySQL Vulnerabilities Detected

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2012
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Critical security patch for MySQL across various Ubuntu versions to address significant vulnerabilities, safeguarding database reliability.
Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Software Description:

- mysql-5.1: MySQL database

- mysql-dfsg-5.1: MySQL database

- mysql-dfsg-5.0: MySQL database

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes

new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.

MySQL has been updated to 5.1.61 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10,

Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has been updated to

MySQL 5.0.95.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new

features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Please see the following for more information:

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2012.html

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical MySQL Ubuntu database issue

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10:
  mysql-server-5.1                5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
  mysql-server-5.1                5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.10:
  mysql-server-5.1                5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.1                5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.0                5.0.95-0ubuntu1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1397-1

CVE-2007-5925, CVE-2008-3963, CVE-2008-4098, CVE-2008-4456,

CVE-2008-7247, CVE-2009-2446, CVE-2009-4019, CVE-2009-4030,

CVE-2009-4484, CVE-2010-1621, CVE-2010-1626, CVE-2010-1848,

CVE-2010-1849, CVE-2010-1850, CVE-2010-2008, CVE-2010-3677,

CVE-2010-3678, CVE-2010-3679, CVE-2010-3680, CVE-2010-3681,

CVE-2010-3682, CVE-2010-3683, CVE-2010-3833, CVE-2010-3834,

CVE-2010-3835, CVE-2010-3836, CVE-2010-3837, CVE-2010-3838,

CVE-2010-3839, CVE-2010-3840, CVE-2011-2262, CVE-2012-0075,

CVE-2012-0087, CVE-2012-0101, CVE-2012-0102, CVE-2012-0112,

CVE-2012-0113, CVE-2012-0114, CVE-2012-0115, CVE-2012-0116,

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March 12, 2012

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical MySQL Ubuntu database issue

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.1/5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.1/5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.1/5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-dfsg-5.1/5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-dfsg-5.0/5.0.95-0ubuntu1

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