MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon, mysqld, and many client programs.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-mysql56-mysql (5.6.39). (BZ#1533831)
Security Fix(es):
mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via long password (CVE-2018-2696)
mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2562)
mysql: Server: GIS unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2573)
mysql: Stored Procedure unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2583)
mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2590)
mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2591)
mysql: InnoDB unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2612)
mysql: Server: DDL unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2622)
mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2640)
mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2645)
mysql: Server: Replication unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2647)
mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2665)
mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2668)
mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via hash with large rounds value (CVE-2018-2703)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
The CVE-2018-2696 and CVE-2018-2703 issues were discovered by Red Hat Product Security.