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Ubuntu: USN-4195-1 Critical Update for MySQL Security Issues

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2019
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4195-1 reveals critical MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 vulnerabilities allowing unauthorized access, urging users to update for protection.
Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Software Description:

- mysql-8.0: MySQL database

- mysql-5.7: 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 8.0.18 in Ubuntu 19.10. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu

18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 19.04 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.28.

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/5.7/en/news-5-7-28.html

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-18.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2019.html

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update MySQL Ubuntu

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.10:
  mysql-server-8.0                8.0.18-0ubuntu0.19.10.1

Ubuntu 19.04:
  mysql-server-5.7                5.7.28-0ubuntu0.19.04.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.7                5.7.28-0ubuntu0.18.04.4

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  mysql-server-5.7                5.7.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4195-1

CVE-2019-2910, CVE-2019-2911, CVE-2019-2914, CVE-2019-2920,

CVE-2019-2922, CVE-2019-2923, CVE-2019-2924, CVE-2019-2938,

CVE-2019-2946, CVE-2019-2948, CVE-2019-2950, CVE-2019-2957,

CVE-2019-2960, CVE-2019-2963, CVE-2019-2966, CVE-2019-2967,

CVE-2019-2968, CVE-2019-2969, CVE-2019-2974, CVE-2019-2982,

CVE-2019-2991, CVE-2019-2993, CVE-2019-2997, CVE-2019-2998,

CVE-2019-3003, CVE-2019-3004, CVE-2019-3009, CVE-2019-3011,

CVE-2019-3018

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security advisory security issue software update MySQL Ubuntu

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-8.0/8.0.18-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/5.7.28-0ubuntu0.19.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/5.7.28-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/5.7.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

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