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HistoryFeb 23, 2017 - 12:12 p.m.

Security update for util-linux (important)

2017-02-2312:12:16
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This update for util-linux fixes the following issues:

This security issue was fixed:

  • CVE-2017-2616: In su with PAM support it was possible for local users to
    send SIGKILL to selected other processes with root privileges
    (bsc#1023041).

This non-security issues were fixed:

  • lscpu: Implement WSL detection and work around crash (bsc#1019332)
  • fstrim: De-duplicate btrfs sub-volumes for "fstrim -a" and bind mounts
    (bsc#1020077)
  • Fix regressions in safe loop re-use patch set for libmount (bsc#1012504)
  • Disable ro checks for mtab (bsc#1012632)
  • Ensure that the option "users,exec,dev,suid" work as expected on NFS
    mounts (bsc#1008965)
  • Fix empty slave detection to prevent 100% CPU load in some cases
    (bsc#1020985)