MySQL remote exploit

Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 12:21:10 MST 2016


Basically they mirror the repos. So when it hits debian I will upgrade. 

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> On Sep 12, 2016, at 12:00 PM, der.hans <PLUGd at LuftHans.com> wrote:
> 
> Am 12. Sep, 2016 schwätzte Herminio Hernandez Jr. so:
> 
> moin moin,
> 
>> Thanks have some SQL in DO droplets. Will be looking for this.
> 
> Will DigitalOcean automagically apply the patches for you?
> 
> I would expect it's in their best interest.
> 
> I'm certain DreamHost is already upgraded. GoDaddy is probably rolling it
> out already, but I no longer know anyone on the team over there, so am not
> sure how quick they will be.
> 
> This is admittedly one of the advantages of cloud. The infrastructure
> providers can centrally test and roll out for everyone. The disadvantage
> is if it's something that affects you, but they don't know or care about
> it :).
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 11:18 AM, der.hans <PLUGd at LuftHans.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> moin moin,
>>> 
>>> a MySQL remote exploit was announced this morning. Percona and MariaDB
>>> already have fixes that have not yet hit the distros.
>>> 
>>> https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/09/12/percona-server-critical-update-cve-2016-6662
>>> 
>>> http://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Exploit-Remote-Root-Code-Execution-Privesc-CVE-2016-6662.html
>>> 
>>> Watch for updates.
>>> 
>>> ciao,
>>> 
>>> der.hans
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