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Today's Topics:

1. [USN-1397-1] MySQL vulnerabilities (Marc Deslauriers)
2. [USN-1398-1] LTSP Display Manager vulnerability (Marc Deslauriers)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:43:20 -0400
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [USN-1397-1] MySQL vulnerabilities
Message-ID: <1331563400.7671.161.camel@mdlinux>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1397-1
March 12, 2012

mysql-5.1, mysql-dfsg-5.0, mysql-dfsg-5.1 vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Software Description:
- mysql-5.1: MySQL database
- mysql-dfsg-5.1: MySQL database
- mysql-dfsg-5.0: 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 5.1.61 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10,
Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has been updated to
MySQL 5.0.95.

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/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-x.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-x.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2012-366304.html

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10:
mysql-server-5.1 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
mysql-server-5.1 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.10:
mysql-server-5.1 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
mysql-server-5.1 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
mysql-server-5.0 5.0.95-0ubuntu1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1397-1
CVE-2007-5925, CVE-2008-3963, CVE-2008-4098, CVE-2008-4456,
CVE-2008-7247, CVE-2009-2446, CVE-2009-4019, CVE-2009-4030,
CVE-2009-4484, CVE-2010-1621, CVE-2010-1626, CVE-2010-1848,
CVE-2010-1849, CVE-2010-1850, CVE-2010-2008, CVE-2010-3677,
CVE-2010-3678, CVE-2010-3679, CVE-2010-3680, CVE-2010-3681,
CVE-2010-3682, CVE-2010-3683, CVE-2010-3833, CVE-2010-3834,
CVE-2010-3835, CVE-2010-3836, CVE-2010-3837, CVE-2010-3838,
CVE-2010-3839, CVE-2010-3840, CVE-2011-2262, CVE-2012-0075,
CVE-2012-0087, CVE-2012-0101, CVE-2012-0102, CVE-2012-0112,
CVE-2012-0113, CVE-2012-0114, CVE-2012-0115, CVE-2012-0116,

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.1/5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.1/5.1.61-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.1/5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-dfsg-5.1/5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-dfsg-5.0/5.0.95-0ubuntu1


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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:46:52 -0400
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [USN-1398-1] LTSP Display Manager vulnerability
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1398-1
March 12, 2012

ldm vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04

Summary:

LTSP Display Manager could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description:
- ldm: LTSP display manager

Details:

Tenho Tuhkala discovered that the LTSP Display Manager (ldm) incorrectly
filtered keybindings. An attacker could use the default keybindings to
execute arbitrary commands as root at the login screen.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10:
ldm 2:2.2.4-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
ldm 2:2.2.1-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart the LTSP Display Manager
to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1398-1
CVE-2012-1166

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ldm/2:2.2.4-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ldm/2:2.2.1-0ubuntu1.1


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