Am 12. Sep, 2016 schwätzte Herminio Hernandez Jr. so:

moin moin,

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

Ah, OK.

You might also want to create a couple of empty files and lock them down.

$datadir can be exploited, so pre-emptively putting empty conf files in
there that can't be changed by mysql is a good idea.

The following is for anyone with questions on locking down the config
files in $datadir.

Presuming $datadir is /var/lib/mysql either of the following will lock
down the files when run as root, but the first will destroy files you
might already have.

# >/var/lib/mysq/my.cnf
# >/var/lib/mysq/.my.cnf
# chmod 000 /var/lib/mysq/{.,}my.cnf

Or, with some minimal verification that it's safe...

# for file in /var/lib/mysq/{.,}my.cnf; do
        if [ ! -e $file ] ; then
                >$file
                chmod 000 $file
                ls -l $file
        else
                ls -l $file
                echo "You might want to check on that"
        fi
done

ciao,

der.hans

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On Sep 12, 2016, at 12:00 PM, der.hans <[email protected]> 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

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On Sep 12, 2016, at 11:18 AM, der.hans <[email protected]> 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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