Hi,

I've just realized that the mysql-connector-java package that we're using comes 
directly from oracle (https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/).

Sorry for the noise and thanks for your support :-)

Best regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robie Basak <[email protected]> 
Sent: mercredi 4 mai 2022 14:51
To: Cyrille Bollu <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [debian-mysql] Updates to the mysql-8.0 package

[adding [email protected] since I think this is 
mistriaged in Debian's security tracker]

On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 10:27:42AM +0000, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> The vulnerability report that I've received relates to CVE-2022-21363 which 
> is purportedly fixed in mysql 8.0.29. 

I think (but am not sure and have not taken any steps to verify) that this 
might be in the source package named mysql-connector-java, not the source 
package named mysql-8.0. Ubuntu seems to think so:

https://ubuntu.com/security/cve-2022-21363

But Debian has listed this against mysql-8.0, which I'm not sure is
right:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-21363

In Debian, mysql-connector-java is only available in Debian stretch (and 
earlier), is out of regular security support, and is supported in Debian LTS 
(https://wiki.debian.org/LTS) only for a few more months.

You mentioned you were using Ubuntu. In Ubuntu, it's available only in
18.04 ("Bionic") and earlier, and depends on community contributed support 
since it's in Ubuntu's "universe" component. Security updates to Ubuntu stable 
releases do not normally sync from Debian, and have to be made separately. See 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures for details on Ubuntu's 
processes for this. If you'd like to prepare an update for the 
mysql-connector-java package for Debian stretch and/or Ubuntu 18.04 then I'm 
sure your contributions would be welcome in both places, but the processes are 
different - please see the above links.

> So, I thought bringing mysql-8.0 up-to-date in Debian would bring the fix 
> down to Ubuntu afterward. Isn't it how both projects work together?

Generally Debian and Ubuntu don't necessarily freeze on the same versions, so 
usually it's done separately and manually though of course we share what we 
can. It's only the development releases where things flow from Debian to Ubuntu 
more directly.

> PS: I'm considering to help fixing vulnerabilities in Ubuntu/Debian 
> for years (which I believe often just consist into updating packages) 
> so I'm really eager for your feedback :-)

I hope the above helps! Any questions, please do ask.

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