N/A - USN-3078-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	MySQL vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-3078-1	First vendor Publication	2016-09-13
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2016-09-13
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

MySQL could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - mysql-5.7: MySQL database - mysql-5.5: MySQL database

Details:

Dawid Golunski discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled configuration files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

MySQL has been updated to 5.5.52 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.7.15.

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-5-5-51.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-52.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-14.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-15.html

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
mysql-server-5.7 5.7.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
mysql-server-5.5 5.5.52-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
mysql-server-5.5 5.5.52-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3078-1
CVE-2016-6662

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/5.7.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/5.5.52-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/5.5.52-0ubuntu0.12.04.1