Vulnerability in FreeIPMI

[ Why it matters ]Priority signals

• Critical severity: CVSS 9.8

[ Description ]Official description

FreeIPMI before 1.6.19 has a stack-based buffer overflow in _read_fru_data in libfreeipmi/fru/ipmi-fru.c when a BMC returns more bytes than requested.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund25 Oct 2026WID-SEC-2026-4155

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux (FreeIPMI): Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-85508CVE-2026-85509CVE-2026-85505+3 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/28/5
• www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi
• ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.6.19.tar.gz