Summary
Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream version 5.5.40. Please see the MySQL 5.5 Release Notes and Oracle's Critical Patch Update advisory for further details:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-39.htmlhttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-40.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 5.5.40-0+wheezy1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mysql-5.5 packages.
Insight
MySQL is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server.
Affected
mysql-5.5 on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
-
CVSS Base Score: 8.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C
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