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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 : mysql-5.1, mysql-dfsg-5.0, mysql-dfsg-5.1 vulnerabilities (USN-1427-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 58872
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.MySQL has been updated to 5.1.62 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.0.96.
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/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-62.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-96.html
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected mysql-server-5.0 and / or mysql-server-5.1 packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 58872
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1427-1.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 4/25/2012
Updated: 9/19/2019
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-5.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-5.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2012
Reference Information
USN: 1427-1