Issued:

2017-08-01

Updated:

2017-08-01

RHBA-2017:1858 - dmidecode bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

dmidecode bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

An update for dmidecode is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The dmidecode packages provide utilities for extracting Intel 64 and Intel Itanium hardware information from the system BIOS or Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), 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.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of dmidecode are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• dmidecode-3.0-5.el7.src.rpm
• dmidecode-debuginfo-3.0-5.el7.aarch64.rpm
• dmidecode-debuginfo-3.0-5.el7.x86_64.rpm
• dmidecode-3.0-5.el7.x86_64.rpm
• dmidecode-3.0-5.el7.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1384195
• This content is not included.BZ - 1421971

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/index.html

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.