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HistoryMay 08, 2017 - 6:18 p.m.

Security update for mysql-community-server (important)

2017-05-0818:18:38
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This update for mysql-community-server to version 5.6.36 fixes the
following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-5483: Mysqldump failed to properly quote certain identifiers in
    SQL statements written to the dump output, allowing for execution of
    arbitrary commands (bsc#1029014)
  • CVE-2017-3305: MySQL client sent authentication request unencrypted even
    if SSL was required (aka Ridddle) (bsc#1029396).
  • CVE-2017-3308: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: DML (boo#1034850)
  • CVE-2017-3309: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Optimizer
    (boo#1034850)
  • CVE-2017-3329: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Thread (boo#1034850)
  • CVE-2017-3453: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Optimizer
    (boo#1034850)
  • CVE-2017-3456: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: DML (boo#1034850)
  • CVE-2017-3461: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Security
    (boo#1034850)
  • CVE-2017-3462: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Security
    (boo#1034850)
  • CVE-2017-3463: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Security
    (boo#1034850)
  • CVE-2017-3464: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: DDL (boo#1034850)
  • CVE-2017-3302: Crash in libmysqlclient.so (bsc#1022428).
  • CVE-2017-3450: Unspecified vulnerability Server: Memcached
  • CVE-2017-3452: Unspecified vulnerability Server: Optimizer
  • CVE-2017-3599: Unspecified vulnerability Server: Pluggable Auth
  • CVE-2017-3600: Unspecified vulnerability in Client: mysqldump
    (boo#1034850)
  • ‘–ssl-mode=REQUIRED’ can be specified to require a secure connection
    (it fails if a secure connection cannot be obtained)

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • Set the default umask to 077 in mysql-systemd-helper (boo#1020976)
  • Change permissions of the configuration dir/files to 755/644. Please
    note that storing the password in the /etc/my.cnf file is not safe. Use
    for example an option file that is accessible only by yourself
    (boo#889126)

For more information please see
<a href=“http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-36.html”>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-36.html</a>