A dmidecode security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

[RHSA-2023:5252-01] Moderate: dmidecode security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: dmidecode security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5252-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5252
Issue date: 2023-09-19
CVE Names: CVE-2023-30630
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1. Summary:

An update for dmidecode is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, x86_64

3. Description:

The dmidecode packages provide utilities for extracting Intel 64 and Intel
Itanium hardware information from the system BIOS or Extensible Firmware
Interface (EFI), depending on the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information
typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS
version, and asset tag, as well as other details, depending on the
manufacturer.

Security Fix(es):

* dmidecode: dump-bin to overwrite a local file (CVE-2023-30630)

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.

4. 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

5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2186669 - CVE-2023-30630 dmidecode: dump-bin to overwrite a local file

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):

Source:
dmidecode-3.3-4.el8_8.1.src.rpm

aarch64:
dmidecode-3.3-4.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm
dmidecode-debuginfo-3.3-4.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm
dmidecode-debugsource-3.3-4.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm

x86_64:
dmidecode-3.3-4.el8_8.1.x86_64.rpm
dmidecode-debuginfo-3.3-4.el8_8.1.x86_64.rpm
dmidecode-debugsource-3.3-4.el8_8.1.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-30630
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is [secalert@redhat.com]. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.

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