This is a CRITICAL update and the fix mitigates the issues described in CVE-2019-12301. If you upgraded packages on Debian/Ubuntu to 5.6.44-85.0-1, please upgrade to 5.6.44-85.0-2 or later and reset all MySQL root passwords.
Issue
On 2019-05-18 Percona discovered an issue with the Debian/Ubuntu 5.6.44-85.0-1 packages for Percona Server for MySQL. When the previous versions, […]
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In this talk, we take a look at the whole stack and I don’t just mean LAMP.
We’ll cover […]
Ahead of the PCI move to deprecate the use of ‘early TLS’, we’ve previously taken steps to disable TLSv1.0.
Unfortunately at that time we encountered some issues which led us to rollback these changes. This was to allow users of operating systems that did not – yet – support TLSv1.1 or higher to download Percona packages over […]
In this post, we’ll cover Percona’s thoughts about the current MySQL community discussion happening around MySQL LOCAL INFILE security issues.
This post is released given the already public discussion of this particular issue, with the exploitation code currently redacted to ensure forks of MySQL client libraries have sufficient time to implement their response strategies.
This post […]
In the last few days, there has been information released about yet another alleged data leak, placing in jeopardy “…[the] personal information on hundreds of millions of American adults, as well as millions of businesses.” In this case, the “victim” was Exactis, for whom data collection and data security are core business functions.
Some takeaways […]
This blog post examines the recent MySQL® ransomware attacks, and what open source database security best practices could have prevented them.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that there has been an uptick in ransomware for MongoDB and Elasticsearch deployments. Recently, we’re seeing the same for MySQL.
Let’s look and see if this is MySQL’s fault.
Other […]
Docker 1.12.6 was released to address CVE-2016-9962. CVE-2016-9962 is a serious vulnerability with RunC.
Quoting the coreos page (linked above):
“RunC allowed additional container processes via runc exec to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes […]
