MySQL vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• mysql-5.5 - MySQL database
• mysql-5.6 - MySQL database

Details

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

MySQL has been updated to 5.5.47 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.6.28.

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-5-5-47.html&gt;
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-28.html&gt;
<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html&gt;