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Ubuntu 13.10 USN-2006-1 Moderate: MySQL Security Issues

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2013
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Explore security patches for MySQL in Ubuntu versions ranging from 10.04 to 13.10 that address known vulnerabilities.
Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Software Description:

- mysql-5.5: 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 5.1.72 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,

Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 13.10 have been updated to

MySQL 5.5.34.

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/cpuoct2013.html

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

Ubuntu 13.04:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.34-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.34-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.1                5.1.72-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2006-1

CVE-2013-3839, CVE-2013-5807

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October 24, 2013

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