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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : mysql-5.5, mysql-dfsg-5.1 vulnerabilities (USN-2006-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70606

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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 5.1.72 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 13.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.5.34.

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/5.1/en/news-5-1-72.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-34.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013-1899837.h tml.

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-5.1 and / or mysql-server-5.5 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2006-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70606

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2006-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/25/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-5.5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-5.1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-3839, CVE-2013-5807

BID: 63105, 63109

USN: 2006-1