RHBA-2011:1352 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated OpenIPMI packages that fix three bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The OpenIPMI packages provide command line tools and utilities to access
platform information using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), and
thus allowing system administrators to manage systems and perform system health
monitoring.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the "delloem powermonitor" command did not properly

convert values received on network to integer numbers on big-endian systems
(PowerPC, IBM System z), and thus showed incorrect values when reporting power
consumption. This update fixes the integer conversions in the "delloem
powermonitor" command so that the power consumption is reported correctly on
PowerPC and IBM System z architectures. (BZ#659326)

• Prior to this update, ipmitool's Serial Over LAN (SOL) module erroneously

calculated number of octets processed by Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
and could have resent already acknowledged chunks of serial communication, which
could have disturbed the serial line with additional characters. Under certain
circumstances, this could have also brought ipmitool into endless loop or
unexpected termination. With this update, ipmitool now correctly calculates
number of octets processed by BMC and does not resend unwanted characters over
the serial line. (BZ#675980)

• Prior to this update, a debug message "Discovered local IPMB address

[address]" was included in the output of "ipmitool -v". With this update, the
message severity has been lowered and it is only shown when the "-v" option is
used multiple times to enable very verbose debug output. (BZ#674494)

All users of OpenIPMI are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix these bugs.

Solution

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

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 659326 - ipmitool delloem powermonitor wrong values on big endian platforms
• BZ - 674494 - An unexpected message is outputed with -v option of ipmitool.

CVEs

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References

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