USN-3537-2: MySQL vulnerabilities

25 January 2018

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

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Releases

USN-3537-1 fixed vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update
provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory 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 5.5.59 in Ubuntu 12.04 ESM LTS.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes,
new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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

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

USN-3537-1: mysql-server-5.5, mysql-client-5.7, mysql-testsuite-5.7, libmysqlclient18, libmysqld-dev, mysql-common, mysql-5.5, mysql-testsuite, libmysqlclient-dev, mysql-testsuite-5.5, mysql-client-5.5, mysql-client-core-5.5, libmysqld-pic, mysql-server, mysql-client-core-5.7, mysql-server-core-5.7, libmysqlclient20, mysql-server-5.7, mysql-source-5.5, mysql-source-5.7, mysql-5.7, mysql-server-core-5.5, mysql-client

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