RHBA-2014:1624 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated ipmitool packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The ipmitool packages contain a command line utility for interfacing with
devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
specification. IPMI is an open standard for machine health, inventory, and
remote power control.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the ipmitool default timeout values signified a time period

which was too short. As a consequence, during retries, the ipmitool utility
could terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault, or could produce a
nonsensical error message. With this update, the ipmitool options passed from
environment variable are parsed correctly from IPMITOOL_OPTS and IPMI_OPTS
variables, IPMITOOL_* taking precedence over IPMI_* variables. As a result,
ipmitool no longer crashes in the described situation. (BZ#1147593)

Users of ipmitool are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
this bug. After installing this update, the IPMI event daemon (ipmievd) will be
restarted automatically.

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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load Balancer (for RHEL Server) 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load Balancer (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) - AUS 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1147593 - ipmitool default timeout values are too short

CVEs

(none)

References

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