14 DAY TRIAL // On October 25, Canonical published in a security notice details about MySQL vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to the company, multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.
MySQL has been updated to 5.1.72 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.10.Ubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 13.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.5.34.
For a more detailed description of the security problems, you can visit Canonical's security notification.
The security flaws can be fixed if you upgrade your system(s) to the latest mysql-server package specific to each distribution. To apply the new firmware, run the Update Manager application.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. A system restart will not be necessary to implement them.