SUSE: 2018:1821-1 Important: Fix for Linux Kernel FPU Disclosure
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June 27, 2018
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 91 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This new feature was added: - Btrfs: Remove empty block groups in the background The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: Prevent disclosure of FPU registers (including XMM and AVX registers) between processes. These registers might contain encryption keys when doing SSE accelerated AES enc/decryption (bsc#1087086) The following non-security bugs were fixed: - ALSA: timer: Fix pause event notification (bsc#973378). - Btrfs: Avoid trucating page or punching hole in a already existed hole (bsc#1088998). - Btrfs: Avoid truncate tailing page if fallocate range does not exceed inode size (bsc#1094424). - Btrfs: Fix lost-data-profile caused by auto removing bg. - Btrfs: Fix misuse of chunk mutex
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#1046610 #1052351 #1068054 #1079152 #1080837
#1083347 #1087086 #1087088 #1088997 #1088998
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#1093195 #1093196 #1093197 #1093198 #1094244
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1821-1
Rating: important
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