CVE-2020-5208

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.

• CWE-120
• CWE-120

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/commit/e824c23316ae50beb7f7488f2055ac65e8b341f2Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/security/advisories/GHSA-g659-9qxw-p7cpPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00029.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K2BPW66KDP4H36AGZXLED57A3O2Y6EQW/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RYYEKUAUTCWICM77HOEGZDVVEUJLP4BP/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-03Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/commit/e824c23316ae50beb7f7488f2055ac65e8b341f2Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/security/advisories/GHSA-g659-9qxw-p7cpPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00029.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K2BPW66KDP4H36AGZXLED57A3O2Y6EQW/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RYYEKUAUTCWICM77HOEGZDVVEUJLP4BP/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-03Third Party Advisory

Published

Feb 5, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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