RHBA-2009:0964 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated OpenIPMI packages that fix several bugs and add various
enhancements are now available.

Description

OpenIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) provides command line
tools and utilities to access platform information for system
administrators to monitor system health and manage systems.

This updated OpenIPMI package upgrades ipmitool to the more recent upstream
version 1.8.10, which provides several bug fixes and enhancements over the
previous release, including the following:

• the "ipmitool sel delete" command now accepts hexadecimal numbers as

arguments when those numbers begin with a "0x" prefix.

• the "ipmitool user list" command did not report whether a user was

enabled or disabled.

• the OpenIPMI source RPMs now compile correctly in multilib environments.
• parsing the "tsol" and/or "sol payload" command line arguments caused a

segmentation fault in ipmitool.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated OpenIPMI packages, which
resolve these issues and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 245677 - ipmitool-1.8.8-disabled-sensor patch breaks temp readings on Dell SC1435s
• BZ - 454833 - LTC:4.8:201569:Update to latest version of ipmitool
• BZ - 456246 - Allow passing hexadecimal ids to "ipmitool sel delete"
• BZ - 463916 - ipmitool reports bad value for POH counter with FSC RX200S3/TX150S6
• BZ - 468023 - ipmitool tsol causes Segmentation fault
• BZ - 468042 - ipmitool option parsing broken
• BZ - 476641 - OpenIPMI does not depend on OpenIPMI-libs
• BZ - 476950 - OpenIPMI does not compile on x86_64 and s390x

CVEs

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References

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