SUSE-SU-2017:2696-1

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Published

2017-10-10T13:55:33Z

Modified

2017-10-10T13:55:33Z

Summary

Security update for dracut

Details

This update for dracut fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. (bsc#1008340)

Non-security issues fixed:

Skip iBFT discovery for qla4xxx flashnode session. (bsc#935320)
Set MTU and LLADDR for DHCP if specified. (bsc#959803)
Allow booting from degraded MD arrays with systemd. (bsc#1017695)
Start multipath services before local-fs-pre.target. (bsc#1005410, bsc#1006118, bsc#1007925, bsc#986734, bsc#986838)
Fixed /sbin/installkernel to handle kernel packages built with 'make bin-rpmpkg'. (bsc#1008648)
Fixed typo in installkernel script. (bsc#1032576)
Fixed subnet calculation in mkinitrd. (bsc#1035743)

References

Affected packages

Name: dracut
Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/dracut&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSS

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

037-51.31.1

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "dracut-fips": "037-51.31.1",
            "dracut": "037-51.31.1"
        }
    ]
}