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.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/security/advisories/GHSA-g659-9qxw-p7cp
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/commit/e824c23316ae50beb7f7488f2055ac65e8b341f2
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00006.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RYYEKUAUTCWICM77HOEGZDVVEUJLP4BP/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K2BPW66KDP4H36AGZXLED57A3O2Y6EQW/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00031.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-03
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00029.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.7
EPSS
0.0211
EPSS Percentile
84.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-120
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
debian/debian_linux
9.0
fedoraproject/fedora
30
fedoraproject/fedora
31
ipmitool_project/ipmitool
1.8.18
opensuse/leap
15.1
Published
Feb 05, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026