Chapter 1. Package Updates
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• new in this OpenIPMI 2.0.16 release is the OpenIPMI-gui package, which contains a GUI that
provides a tree-structured view of the IPMI domains it is connected to. (
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• the "ipmitool sol set" command now checks the values of arguments provided on the command line.
(
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• the ipmitool(1) man page has been updated to include descriptions for these commands: spd,
picmg, hpm, firewall, fwum and kontronoem. (
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Users are advised to upgrade to these updated OpenIPMI packages, which resolve these issues and
add these enhancements.
1.3. acpid
1.3.1. RHSA-2009:0474: Moderate security update
Important
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as the security
errata
RHSA-2009:0474
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An updated acpid package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2.1, 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response
Team.
acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) events to
user-space programs.
Anthony de Almeida Lopes of Outpost24 AB reported a denial of service flaw in the acpid daemon's
error handling. If an attacker could exhaust the sockets open to acpid, the daemon would enter
an infinite loop, consuming most CPU resources and preventing acpid from communicating with
legitimate processes. (
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)
Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct
this issue.
1.3.2. RHBA-2009:1403: bug fix update
An updated acpid package that fixes a bug is now available.
acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) events to
user-space programs.
In some pre-release versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
daemon was initialized before the ACPI daemon. Consequently, this resulted in the HAL daemon
preventing the ACPI daemon from accessing /proc/acpi/event. With this update, the acpid package
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