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Subject: [Freeipmi-announce] FreeIPMI 1.6.19 Released
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:36:03 +0000
From: Chu, Al via Freeipmi-announce <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Chu, Al <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>,
freeipmi-devel <[email protected]>, Al Chu via Freeipmi-users
<[email protected]>
Please take special note that this release includes several fixes for
potential buffer overflows.
FreeIPMI 1.6.19 - 08/27/26
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o Fix minor groff warnings in manpages.
o Fix portability of building manpages.
o Fix minor bugs found by code analysis:
- bmc-watchdog: Fix bug with --arp-response command line parsing.
- ipmi/rmcpping: Fix bug with finding an IPv6 interface.
- ipmidetect: fix bug in which hostname configs not used properly
- ipmi-oem intelnm: fix parsing of hours/minutes error
- ipmi-oem: Correct Dell CMC IPv6 autoconfiguration output.
- ipmi-oem: Correct Dell iDRAC web server control output.
- libipmidetect: Isolate partial results between fallback servers.
- libipmidetect: Honor caller-provided hostnames over configured
defaults.
- common: Preserve stream state when finishing buffered output.
- common: Fix buffer-output configuration parse issue.
- common: Parse UTC offset configuration as an integer.
- ipmiconsole: Monitor both console descriptors.
- ipmiconsole: Check valid payload instance range correctly.
- ipmi-sel: Honor post-clear after full tail output.
- ipmi-fru: Report DIMM capacities in megabytes.
- ipmi-chassis: Apply the Power-On Hours scale correctly.
- libipmimonitoring: fix mem-leak on SEL iterator
- libipmimonitoring: allow cipher suite 0 in configs
- libipmimonitoring: report NO_SEL_RECORDS instead of
NO_SENSOR_READINGS cut and paste errors in some functions.
o Fix potential stack overflows found by code analysis in ipmi-oem
dell get-system-info command (specifically idrac-info, cmc-info,
cmc-ipv6-info subcommands) and ipmi-oem fujitsu get-sel-entry-long-text.
o Fix potential stack overflow in libfreeipmi also related to Fujitsu
long SEL entries.
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.6.19.tar.gz
<https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.6.19.tar.gz>
Al
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Al Chu
Livermore Computing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
