SUSE: 2018:1846-1 Important: Linux Kernel Denial of Service Risk
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June 29, 2018
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 116 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: - : 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) - : Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may have allowed unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4 (bsc#1087082)
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1846-1
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