USN-3269-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3269-1

27th April, 2017

mysql-5.5, mysql-5.7 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04



• Ubuntu 16.10



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Software description

• mysql-5.5
  - 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 5.5.55 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.18.

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-5-5-55.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-18.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2017-3236618.html

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04:

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

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CVE-2017-3600