RHSA-2026:89754 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: freeipmi security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · October 26, 2026

Updated · October 29, 2026

Topic

An update for freeipmi 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.

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: FreeIPMI: Arbitrary code execution via malformed Fujitsu System Event Log responses (CVE-2026-85504)
FreeIPMI: FreeIPMI: Arbitrary code execution via stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2026-85507)
FreeIPMI: FreeIPMI: Arbitrary code execution via stack-based buffer overflow in ipmi-oem (CVE-2026-85506)
FreeIPMI: FreeIPMI: Arbitrary code execution via stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2026-85509)
FreeIPMI: FreeIPMI: Denial of Service via stack-based buffer over-read in ipmi-oem (CVE-2026-85505)
freeipmi: FreeIPMI: stack-based buffer overflow in ipmi-oem Dell system info handler (CVE-2026-85508)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

Update freeipmi to 1.6.20 to fix two potential buffer overflows [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-279519)

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.