Bug 1799039

Summary:	CVE-2020-5208 ipmitool: Buffer overflow in read_fru_area_section function in lib/ipmi_fru.c
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Vaclav Dolezal <vdolezal>
Component:	ipmitool	Assignee:	Vaclav Dolezal <vdolezal>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Rachel Sibley <rasibley>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.1	CC:	jridky, jsafrane, ovasik, psampaio, rvr, security-response-team, vdolezal
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	8.3
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	CVE-2020-5208	Environment:
Last Closed:	2020-04-28 15:45:09 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1798721
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Description Vaclav Dolezal 2020-02-06 13:58:40 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1798721 +++

It's been found that multiple functions in ipmitool before 1.8.19 neglect proper checking of the data received from a remote LAN party, which may lead to buffer overflows and potentially to remote code execution on the ipmitool side. This is especially dangerous if ipmitool is run as a privileged user. This problem is fixed in version 1.8.19.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/commit/e824c23316ae50beb7f7488f2055ac65e8b341f2

References:

https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/security/advisories/GHSA-g659-9qxw-p7cp

--- Additional comment from Pedro Sampaio on 2020-02-05 21:01:57 UTC ---

Created ipmitool tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1798722]

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:45:09 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:1642