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High RHSA-2020:0981 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: ipmitool security update

Published Sep 16, 2024 · Updated Nov 22, 2025

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::appstream exchange-bmc-os-info 0:1.8.18-12.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::appstream ipmievd 0:1.8.18-12.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::appstream ipmievd-debuginfo 0:1.8.18-12.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::appstream ipmitool 0:1.8.18-12.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::appstream ipmitool-debuginfo 0:1.8.18-12.el8_1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::appstream ipmitool-debugsource 0:1.8.18-12.el8_1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.7
    CVE-2020-5208

    remote code execution vulnerability in ipmitool

    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 danger…

    ipmitool ipmitool ipmitool ipmitool Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798721
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2020/rhsa-2020_0981.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5208
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5208
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5208
  • article
    https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/security/advisories/GHSA-g659-9qxw-p7cp