Bug 2528445

Summary: CVE-2026-85504 freeipmi: FreeIPMI: Arbitrary code execution via malformed Fujitsu System Event Log responses [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Srikanth Balasubramanian <sbalasub>
Component: freeipmiAssignee: Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: jridky, pcahyna
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-09-04 09:23:25 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

FreeIPMI before 1.6.19 has a stack-based buffer overflow in _ipmi_sel_oem_fujitsu_get_sel_entry_long_text in libfreeipmi/sel/ipmi-sel-string-fujitsu-irmc-common.c via malformed Fujitsu SEL long-text responses.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-09-14 11:06:37 UTC
FEDORA-2026-abe39f1809 (freeipmi-1.6.19-1.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-abe39f1809

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-09-15 01:27:16 UTC
FEDORA-2026-abe39f1809 has been pushed to the Fedora 45 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-abe39f1809`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-abe39f1809

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-09-18 00:16:53 UTC
FEDORA-2026-abe39f1809 (freeipmi-1.6.19-1.fc45) has been pushed to the Fedora 45 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.