Ubuntu 12.10 USN-1703-1 Moderate Security Fixes for MySQL

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January 22, 2013

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Software Description:

- mysql-5.5: MySQL database

- mysql-5.1: MySQL database

- mysql-dfsg-5.1: 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 5.1.67 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.5.29.

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://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.1/en/news-5-1-67.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2013.html

Topics Covered

security advisory security update mysql security fix moderate severity ubuntu database

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  mysql-server-5.1                5.1.67-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.1                5.1.67-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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