This update for util-linux fixes a number of bugs and two security issues.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2016-5011: Infinite loop DoS in libblkid while parsing DOS partition
(bsc#988361)
- 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).
The following non-security bugs were fixed:
- bsc#1008965: Ensure that the option "users,exec,dev,suid" work as
expected on NFS mounts
- bsc#1012504: Fix regressions in safe loop re-use patch set for libmount
- bsc#1012632: Disable ro checks for mtab
- bsc#1020077: fstrim: De-duplicate btrfs sub-volumes for "fstrim -a" and
bind mounts
- bsc#947494: mount -a would fail to recognize btrfs already mounted,
address loop re-use in libmount
- bsc#966891: Conflict in meaning of losetup -L. This switch in SLE12 SP1
and SP2 continues to carry the meaning of --logical-blocksize instead of
upstream --nooverlap
- bsc#978993: cfdisk would mangle some text output
- bsc#982331: libmount: ignore redundant slashes
- bsc#983164: mount uid= and gid= would reject valid non UID/GID values
- bsc#987176: When mounting a subfolder of a CIFS share, mount -a would
show the mount as busy
- bsc#1019332: lscpu: Implement WSL detection and work around crash