RHSA-2026:50729 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for freeipmi is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The freeipmi packages contain an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) remote console and system management software based on the IPMI specification.

Security Fix(es):

• freeipmi: buffer overflows on response messages via ipmi-oem (CVE-2026-33554)
• freeipmi: FreeIPMI: Denial of service via buffer overflow in ipmi-oem client (CVE-2026-50031)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2450778 - CVE-2026-33554 freeipmi: buffer overflows on response messages via ipmi-oem
• BZ - 2484296 - CVE-2026-50031 freeipmi: FreeIPMI: Denial of service via buffer overflow in ipmi-oem client

CVEs

• CVE-2026-33554
• CVE-2026-50031

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate