Issued:
2011-12-06
Updated:
2011-12-06

RHEA-2011:1555 - dmidecode bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

dmidecode bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated dmidecode package that fixes one bug and adds one enhancement 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. This often includes usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots such as AGP, PCI and ISA, among others, memory module slots, and many different kinds of I/O ports, such as serial, parallel and USB.

Prior to this update, the extended records for the DMI types Memory Device (DMI type 17) and Memory Array Mapped Address (DMI type 19) 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. Now, the dmidecode output contains the extended records for DMI type 17 and DMI type 19. (BZ#654833)

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

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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • dmidecode-debuginfo-2.11-2.el6.i686.rpm
  • dmidecode-2.11-2.el6.src.rpm
  • dmidecode-2.11-2.el6.i686.rpm
  • dmidecode-2.11-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • dmidecode-debuginfo-2.11-2.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information