MariaDB 5.5.51 Release Notes

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Release date: 10 Aug 2016

This is a Stable (GA) release.

For a description of MariaDB 5.5 see theWhat is MariaDB 5.5? page.

In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.

Updates & Bug Fixes

MariaDB 5.5.51 is a maintenance release. It includes several bugfixes and updates, including from MySQL 5.5.51. Notable changes include:

• XtraDB updated to 5.5.50-38.0

• Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2016-6662 (MDEV-10465). That allowed a malicious user to create a my.cnf in the datadir and, under certain circumstances, execute arbitrary code as mysql (or even root) user. This vulnerability was discovered by Dawid Golunski.

  • CVE-2016-5612

Changelog

A full list of all changes is in the changelog.

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