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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-5208: Security patch for ipmitool (ALAS-2020-1420)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-5208: Security patch for ipmitool (ALAS-2020-1420)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/05/2020
Created
05/09/2020
Added
05/08/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bmc-snmp-proxy
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-exchange-bmc-os-info
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipmitool
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipmitool-debuginfo

References

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