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posted by martyb on Monday July 22 2019, @05:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the ALL-kernels-affected dept.

https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108410

From the RedHat bug discussion:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709180

A flaw was found in the Linux kernels implementation of IPMI (remote baseband access) where an attacker with local access to read /proc/ioports may be able to create a use-after-free condition when the kernel module is unloaded. The use after-free condition may result in privilege escalation. Investigation is ongoing.

See https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11811 for a lot of other distro links (the Source section at the top).


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @11:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @11:49PM (#870135)

    From Wikipedia:

    IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface
    The Intelligent Platform Management Interface is a set of computer interface specifications for an autonomous computer subsystem that provides management and monitoring capabilities independently of the host system's CPU, firmware and operating system.

    From Common Sense:

    This is going to f*** up.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 23 2019, @01:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 23 2019, @01:04AM (#870155)

    it's another form of "problem is between keyboard and monitor".
    recommend having the" remote monitor and keyboard translated thru network "on seperate ethernet cables totally?
    note: IPMI DOES save on having to buy one keybaord AND monitor for each computer?