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Ubuntu: 3799-1 Important: MySQL Server Security Fixes Released

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2018
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Significant vulnerabilities in MySQL were addressed in Ubuntu's latest update to enhance system stability and functionality.
Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Software Description:

- mysql-5.7: 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 5.5.62 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.24.

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-5-5-62.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-24.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2018.html

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update MySQL Ubuntu update instruction database fix

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10:
  mysql-server-5.7                5.7.24-0ubuntu0.18.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.7                5.7.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.7                5.7.24-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.5                5.5.62-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3799-1

CVE-2018-3133, CVE-2018-3143, CVE-2018-3144, CVE-2018-3155,

CVE-2018-3156, CVE-2018-3161, CVE-2018-3162, CVE-2018-3171,

CVE-2018-3173, CVE-2018-3174, CVE-2018-3185, CVE-2018-3187,

CVE-2018-3200, CVE-2018-3247, CVE-2018-3251, CVE-2018-3276,

CVE-2018-3277, CVE-2018-3278, CVE-2018-3282, CVE-2018-3283,

CVE-2018-3284

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October 23, 2018

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update MySQL Ubuntu update instruction database fix

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/5.7.24-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/5.7.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/5.7.24-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/5.5.62-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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