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SUSE-SU-2017:0554-1 Not scored

Security update for util-linux

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)

Exploit probability Not scored
Published February 23, 2017
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 util-linux-systemd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 python-libmount
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 util-linux
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 util-linux-systemd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 python-libmount
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 util-linux
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 python-libmount
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 util-linux
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 util-linux-systemd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 python-libmount
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 util-linux
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 util-linux-systemd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 util-linux
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP2 util-linux

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2017:0554-1

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)

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence