- Issued:
- 2009-09-02
- Updated:
- 2009-09-02
RHBA-2009:1324 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
dmidecode enhancement update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated dmidecode package that fixes a bug and adds
enhancements is now available.
Description
The dmidecode package provides utilities for extracting x86 and ia64
hardware information from the system BIOS or EFI, according to the
SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system
manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as
a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability
depending on the manufacturer.
This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion
slots (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of
I/O ports (e.g. serial, parallel, USB).
This updated package adds the following enhancement:
- the previous version of the dmidecode package was based on upstream
version 2.7 and lacked support for a variety of newer hardware. The package
now provides version 2.9, which:
- updates support for SMBIOS specification version 2.5
- decodes slot IDs of AGP 8x and PCIE slots
- decodes newer processor characteristics (multi-core, multi-thread, 64-bit)
- supports newer types of chassis, processor, socket, connector and memory
device
- supports x86 EFI
(BZ#459048)
This updated package fixes the following bug:
- the default method used by dmidecode to retrieve entries from the DMI
table produces unaligned access errors when used on Itanium systems. When
built for the Itanium architecture, this version of the package includes a
workaround that avoids these errors. (BZ#459048).
Users of dmidecode are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
adds this enhancements and fixes this bug.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 459048 - update dmidecode from 2.7 to 2.9, the latest version
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 5f867d39e3ac228d7d1c3b64c963e09ead6d66b0652723258c8581002df99576 |
x86_64 | |
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e027f6e345301f2b776ce71cc65c887312cb5e898657640b82462f46e7f19e68 |
ia64 | |
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: cf444018054c64990893de80e184db7a041a4de285b42de1c35558a94be7de5d |
i386 | |
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: ac599ea67e7f355f62a7ff9232dd9259a273ea5f46231c9fec2ec01b5bb6370b |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 5f867d39e3ac228d7d1c3b64c963e09ead6d66b0652723258c8581002df99576 |
x86_64 | |
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e027f6e345301f2b776ce71cc65c887312cb5e898657640b82462f46e7f19e68 |
i386 | |
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: ac599ea67e7f355f62a7ff9232dd9259a273ea5f46231c9fec2ec01b5bb6370b |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 5f867d39e3ac228d7d1c3b64c963e09ead6d66b0652723258c8581002df99576 |
x86_64 | |
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e027f6e345301f2b776ce71cc65c887312cb5e898657640b82462f46e7f19e68 |
i386 | |
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: ac599ea67e7f355f62a7ff9232dd9259a273ea5f46231c9fec2ec01b5bb6370b |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 5f867d39e3ac228d7d1c3b64c963e09ead6d66b0652723258c8581002df99576 |
x86_64 | |
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e027f6e345301f2b776ce71cc65c887312cb5e898657640b82462f46e7f19e68 |
i386 | |
dmidecode-2.9-1.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: ac599ea67e7f355f62a7ff9232dd9259a273ea5f46231c9fec2ec01b5bb6370b |
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