SECURITY

USN-2953-1: MySQL vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2953-1 21st April, 2016 mysql-5.5, mysql-5.6 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in MySQL. Software description mysql-5.5 – MySQL database mysql-5.6 – MySQL database Details Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includesnew upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.49 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.Ubuntu 15.10 has been updated to MySQL 5.6.30. 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-5-5-48.htmlhttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-49.htmlhttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-29.htmlhttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-30.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 15.10: mysql-server-5.6 5.6.30-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: mysql-server-5.5 5.5.49-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 Ubuntu 12.04 [ more… ]

USN-2952-1: PHP vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2952-1 21st April, 2016 php5 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in PHP. Software description php5 – HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter Details It was discovered that the PHP Zip extension incorrectly handleddirectories when processing certain zip files. A remote attacker couldpossibly use this issue to create arbitrary directories. (CVE-2014-9767) It was discovered that the PHP Soap client incorrectly validated datatypes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash,resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2015-8835, CVE-2016-3185) It was discovered that the PHP MySQL native driver incorrectly handled TLSconnections to MySQL databases. A man in the middle attacker could possiblyuse this issue to downgrade and snoop on TLS [ more… ]