This update for mysql-community-server to version 5.6.36 fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2016-5483: Mysqldump failed to properly quote certain identifiers in SQL statements written to the dump output, allowing for execution of arbitrary commands (bsc#1029014)
- CVE-2017-3305: MySQL client sent authentication request unencrypted even if SSL was required (aka Ridddle) (bsc#1029396).
- CVE-2017-3308: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: DML (boo#1034850)
- CVE-2017-3309: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Optimizer (boo#1034850)
- CVE-2017-3329: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Thread (boo#1034850)
- CVE-2017-3453: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Optimizer (boo#1034850)
- CVE-2017-3456: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: DML (boo#1034850)
- CVE-2017-3461: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Security (boo#1034850)
- CVE-2017-3462: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Security (boo#1034850)
- CVE-2017-3463: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: Security (boo#1034850)
- CVE-2017-3464: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: DDL (boo#1034850)
- CVE-2017-3302: Crash in libmysqlclient.so (bsc#1022428).
- CVE-2017-3450: Unspecified vulnerability Server: Memcached
- CVE-2017-3452: Unspecified vulnerability Server: Optimizer
- CVE-2017-3599: Unspecified vulnerability Server: Pluggable Auth
- CVE-2017-3600: Unspecified vulnerability in Client: mysqldump (boo#1034850)
- '--ssl-mode=REQUIRED' can be specified to require a secure connection (it fails if a secure connection cannot be obtained)

These non-security issues were fixed:

- Set the default umask to 077 in mysql-systemd-helper (boo#1020976)
- Change permissions of the configuration dir/files to 755/644.
Please note that storing the password in the /etc/my.cnf file is
not safe. Use for example an option file that is accessible only
by yourself (boo#889126)

For more information please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-36.html