Issued:

2011-10-24

Updated:

2011-10-24

RHBA-2011:1395 - dmidecode bug fix update

Synopsis

dmidecode bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated dmidecode package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The dmidecode package provides utilities for extracting x86 and Intel Itanium hardware information from the system BIOS or EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface), depending on the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, and asset tag, as well as other details, depending on the manufacturer.

• Previously, extended records for Memory Device (DMI type 17) and Memory Array Mapped Address (DMI type 19) DMI types were missing from the dmidecode utility output. With this update, dmidecode has been upgraded to upstream version 2.11, which updates support for the SMBIOS specification to version 2.7.1, thus fixing this bug. (BZ#744690)

All users of dmidecode are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• dmidecode-debuginfo-2.11-2.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
• dmidecode-2.11-2.el6_1.src.rpm
• dmidecode-2.11-2.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
• dmidecode-debuginfo-2.11-2.el6_1.i686.rpm
• dmidecode-2.11-2.el6_1.i686.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.