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Ubuntu 15.10 USN-2953-1 Critical: MySQL Multiple Security Issues

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2016
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Follow these steps to secure MySQL on Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, and 15.10 against vulnerabilities, enhancing your database's security and stability.
Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Software Description:

- mysql-5.6: MySQL database

- mysql-5.5: 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 5.5.49 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Ubuntu 15.10 has been updated to MySQL 5.6.30.

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/5.6/en/news-5-6-29.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-30.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2016v3.html

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
  mysql-server-5.6                5.6.30-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.49-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.49-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2953-1

CVE-2016-0639, CVE-2016-0640, CVE-2016-0641, CVE-2016-0642,

CVE-2016-0643, CVE-2016-0644, CVE-2016-0646, CVE-2016-0647,

CVE-2016-0648, CVE-2016-0649, CVE-2016-0650, CVE-2016-0655,

CVE-2016-0661, CVE-2016-0665, CVE-2016-0666, CVE-2016-0668,

CVE-2016-2047

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.6/5.6.30-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/5.5.49-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/5.5.49-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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