Vigil@nce - ipmitool: buffer overflow via lib/ipmi_fru.c
April 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
– Impacted products: Debian, openSUSE Leap, RHEL, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop, SLES.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service.
– Provenance: user shell.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 10/02/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow via lib/ipmi_fru.c of
ipmitool, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to
run code.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/ipmitool-buffer-overflow-via-lib-ipmi-fru-c-31563