Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHBA-2018:3074 - dmidecode enhancement update

Synopsis

dmidecode 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 7.6 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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 647aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • dmidecode-3.1-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • dmidecode-3.1-2.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • dmidecode-debuginfo-3.1-2.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • dmidecode-debuginfo-3.1-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • dmidecode-3.1-2.el7.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information