Bug 2186669 (CVE-2023-30630)

Summary: CVE-2023-30630 dmidecode: dump-bin to overwrite a local file
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Sandipan Roy <saroy>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: gcovolo, lichliu
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A vulnerability was found in dmidecode, which allows -dump-bin to overwrite a local file. This issue may lead to the execution of dmidecode via Sudo.
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Bug Depends On: 2186671, 2186672, 2186857, 2186858, 2186859, 2186860    
Bug Blocks: 2186611    

Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2023-04-14 05:24:52 UTC
Created dmidecode tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2186671]
Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2186672]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2023-09-12 09:26:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:5061 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5061

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2023-09-19 14:01:40 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:5252 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5252