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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2291-1 Critical: MySQL Security Issues

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Calendar Grey July 17, 2014
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Critical vulnerabilities addressed in MySQL for Ubuntu LTS versions. Upgrade promptly to protect your database infrastructures today.
Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Software Description:

- mysql-5.5: MySQL database

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes

a new upstream MySQL version to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to

5.5.38.

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

new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Please see the following for more information:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-38.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2014.html

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Topics Covered

security advisory MySQL Ubuntu security issue critical update database

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.38-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2291-1

CVE-2014-2494, CVE-2014-4207, CVE-2014-4258, CVE-2014-4260

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July 17, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory MySQL Ubuntu security issue critical update database

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/5.5.38-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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