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SUSE-SU-2020:0617-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2020-03-09 12:00 - Updated: 2020-03-09 12:00
Summary
Security update for ipmitool
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for ipmitool
Description of the patch: This update for ipmitool fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-5208: Fixed multiple remote code executtion vulnerabilities (bsc#1163026). - picmg discover messages are now DEBUG and not INFO messages (bsc#1085469).
Patchnames: SUSE-2020-617,SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-617,SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2020-617,SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2020-617
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.ppc64le
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.s390x
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.ppc64le
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15:ipmitool-1.8.18-4.3.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important

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