Users have been advised to upgrade as soon as possible

Jul 22, 2015 14:32 GMT  ·  By

Details about a number of MySQL vulnerabilities have been published by Canonical for its Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.

According to Canonical, a number of security issues have been found within MySQL, which means that it's time to integrate yet another version from upstream sources. Nothing out of the ordinary has jumped out, but it's a good idea to upgrade nonetheless.

"Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.44 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. Ubuntu 15.04 has been updated to MySQL 5.6.25. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes," reads the security notice.

For a more detailed description of the problems, you can see Canonical's security notification. The flaws can be fixed if you upgrade your system to the latest mysql-server-5.6 packages specific to each distribution. To apply the patch, users will have to run the Update Manager application. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes and there is no need for a restart.

You can also update the system by using the terminal. Just open a terminal and enter the following commands:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade