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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2020:0247-1 Important: ipmitool Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 27, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE addresses severe vulnerabilities in ipmitool due to critical buffer overflow flaws. Discover how to implement the necessary patch immediately.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for ipmitool fixes the following security issue:

- CVE-2020-5208: Fixed several buffer overflows (bsc#1163026).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-247=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

ipmitool-1.8.18-lp151.4.3.1

ipmitool-debuginfo-1.8.18-lp151.4.3.1

ipmitool-debugsource-1.8.18-lp151.4.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

ipmitool-bmc-snmp-proxy-1.8.18-lp151.4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5208.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1163026

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0247-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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