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** Changed in: freeipmi (Debian)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  ipmi-locate crash on arm64

Status in freeipmi package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in freeipmi source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in freeipmi source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Released
Status in freeipmi source package in Zesty:
  Fix Released
Status in freeipmi source package in Artful:
  Fix Released
Status in freeipmi package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Read from /dev/mem and scan DMI tables is dangerous, if /dev/mem is
  not stable to read, it will cause ipmi-locate crash.

  [Test Case]

   * `sudo ipmi-locate` shall not crash

  [Regression Potential]

   * Reading from DMI tables is sysfs is more stable then reading from
  /dev/mem and if DMI tables is not available ipmi-locate will use the
  old way to search in /dev/mem. I believe its low regression risk

  ----
  Similiar to bug 1499838 but not 100% same.

  ipmi-locate looks into /dev/mem for DMI tables and crash when DMI
  tables are not in accessible memory region. Kernel > v4.2 provides
  /sys/firmware/DMI/tables/DMI which is a much safer place to read.

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