Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3557 mysql-5.5 – security update

Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The
vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream
version 5.5.49. Please see the MySQL 5.5 Release Notes and Oracle’s
Critical Patch Update advisory for further details:

DSA-3556 libgd2 – security update

Hans Jerry Illikainen discovered that libgd2, a library for programmatic
graphics creation and manipulation, suffers of a signedness
vulnerability which may result in a heap overflow when processing
specially crafted compressed gd2 data. A remote attacker can take
advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the libgd2 library
to crash, or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges
of the user running the application.