The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2170-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes a new upstream MySQL version to     fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.37.

    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-5-5-36.html     http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-37.html     http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html

    Additionally, Matthias Reichl discovered that the mysql-5.5 packages were missing the patches applied     previously in the mysql-5.1 packages to drop the default test database and localhost permissions granting     access to any databases starting with test_. This update reintroduces these patches for Ubuntu 12.04     LTS, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 13.10. Existing test databases and permissions will not be modified on     upgrade. To manually restrict access for existing installations, please refer to the following:

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/default-privileges.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-2170-1)

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