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 . Security Fix: * mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via long password * mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Server: GIS unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Stored Procedure unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability * mysql: InnoDB unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Server: DDL unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Server: Replication unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability * mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability * mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via hash with large rounds value For more details about the security issue, including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section. The CVE-2018-2696 and CVE-2018-2703 issues were discovered by Red Hat Product Security.