Important: ipmitool

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2020-5208)

Affected Packages:

ipmitool

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update ipmitool to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    ipmitool-1.8.18-9.amzn2.aarch64  
    ipmitool-debuginfo-1.8.18-9.amzn2.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    ipmitool-1.8.18-9.amzn2.i686  
    ipmitool-debuginfo-1.8.18-9.amzn2.i686  
  
noarch:  
    bmc-snmp-proxy-1.8.18-9.amzn2.noarch  
    exchange-bmc-os-info-1.8.18-9.amzn2.noarch  
  
src:  
    ipmitool-1.8.18-9.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ipmitool-1.8.18-9.amzn2.x86_64  
    ipmitool-debuginfo-1.8.18-9.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-5208

Mitre: CVE-2020-5208