SUSE-SU-2018:1846-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

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...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues: - mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - mm/page-writeback.c: fix dirtybalancereserve subtraction from dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - compatsysrecvmmsg X32 fix bnc860993...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5375

The CRC32C feature in the Btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8-rc1 allows local users to cause a denial of service prevention of file creation by leveraging the ability to write to a directory important to the victim, and creating a file with a crafted name that is associated with ...