USN-1909-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

25 July 2013

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

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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 5.1.70 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 have been updated to MySQL 5.5.32.

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/5.1/en/news-5-1-70.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-32.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2013-1899826.html

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04

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