USN-4250-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

27 January 2020

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

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Releases

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes
new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.

MySQL has been updated to 8.0.19 in Ubuntu 19.10. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS have been updated to MySQL 5.7.29.

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:

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

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