The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3040-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to     fix these issues.

    MySQL has been updated to 5.5.50 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 15.10 has been updated     to MySQL 5.6.31. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.7.13.

    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-5-5-50.html     http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-31.html     http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-13.html     http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.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 / 16.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-3040-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 92511

Version 2.12

Version 2.10

Version 2.12 Feb 18, 2025, 11:54 PM Plugin metadata (CVSS 3 Change AC:H --> AC:L where needed) Plugin Feed: 202502182354
Version 2.10 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from 6.8 to 4.9. "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2016-3588") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2016-3477") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906