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Red Hat: RHSA-2020:2284-01 Important: Ipmitool Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical patch for ipmitool resolves a vulnerability related to buffer overflow in CentOS 7.2.
An update for ipmitool is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support

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 security update Red Hat buffer overflow important ipmitool command-line utility

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.2):
Source: ipmitool-1.8.13-10.el7_2.src.rpm
x86_64: ipmitool-1.8.13-10.el7_2.x86_64.rpm ipmitool-debuginfo-1.8.13-10.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.2):
noarch: bmc-snmp-proxy-1.8.13-10.el7_2.noarch.rpm exchange-bmc-os-info-1.8.13-10.el7_2.noarch.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-2020:2284-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2284
Issue date: 2020-05-26

Topic

An update for ipmitool is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2Advanced Update Support.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 security update Red Hat buffer overflow important ipmitool command-line utility

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.2) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.2) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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

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