The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. (bsc#1111331)
This kernel update contains software mitigations for these issues, which also utilize CPU microcode updates shipped in parallel.
For more information on this set of information leaks, check out https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7023736
The following security bugs were fixed:
The following non-security bugs were fixed: