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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-0981-01 Important: Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical patch released for CentOS IPMI utility to fix vulnerabilities related to memory corruption. Ensure timely installation.
An update for ipmitool is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the IPMI event daemon (ipmievd) will be restarted automatically.

Summary

The ipmitool packages contain a command-line utility for interfacing with devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification. IPMI is an open standard for machine health, inventory, and remote power control.
Security Fix(es):
* ipmitool: Buffer overflow in read_fru_area_section function in lib/ipmi_fru.c (CVE-2020-5208)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow important security impact ipmitool

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5208 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: ipmitool-1.8.18-12.el8_1.src.rpm
aarch64: ipmievd-1.8.18-12.el8_1.aarch64.rpm ipmievd-debuginfo-1.8.18-12.el8_1.aarch64.rpm ipmitool-1.8.18-12.el8_1.aarch64.rpm ipmitool-debuginfo-1.8.18-12.el8_1.aarch64.rpm ipmitool-debugsource-1.8.18-12.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: exchange-bmc-os-info-1.8.18-12.el8_1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: ipmievd-1.8.18-12.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm ipmievd-debuginfo-1.8.18-12.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm ipmitool-1.8.18-12.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm ipmitool-debuginfo-1.8.18-12.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm ipmitool-debugsource-1.8.18-12.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: ipmievd-1.8.18-12.el8_1.s390x.rpm ipmievd-debuginfo-1.8.18-12.el8_1.s390x.rpm ipmitool-1.8.18-12.el8_1.s390x.rpm ipmitool-debuginfo-1.8.18-12.el8_1.s390x.rpm ipmitool-debugsource-1.8.18-12.el8_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: ipmievd-1.8.18-12.el8_1.x86_64.rpm ipmievd-debuginfo-1.8.18-12.el8_1.x86_64.rpm ipmitool-1.8.18-12.el8_1.x86_64.rpm ipmitool-debuginfo-1.8.18-12.el8_1.x86_64.rpm ipmitool-debugsource-1.8.18-12.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0981-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0981
Issue date: 2020-03-26

Topic

An update for ipmitool is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow important security impact ipmitool

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1798721 - CVE-2020-5208 ipmitool: Buffer overflow in read_fru_area_section function in lib/ipmi_fru.c

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