CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2020-5208 — Ipmitool Project Ipmitool security vulnerability
High
CVSS 8.8
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.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 8.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2020-02-05
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Affected products
- ipmitool_project / ipmitool / 1.8.18
- debian / debian_linux / 8.0
- debian / debian_linux / 9.0
- fedoraproject / fedora / 30
- fedoraproject / fedora / 31
- opensuse / leap / 15.1
Matched remediation archetype
Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption
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Check exposure
- Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
- Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
- Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.
Remediate safely
- Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
- Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
- Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.
Authoritative sources
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