Package: dmidecode Version: 3.0-2ubuntu0.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Please include the following upstream patch in the dmidecode package: e12ec26e19e02281d3e7258c3aabb88a5cf5ec1d dmidecode: Only scan /dev/mem for entry point on x86 x86 is the only architecture which can have a DMI entry point scanned from /dev/mem. Do not attempt it on other architectures, because not only it can't work, but it can even cause the system to reboot. This fixes support request #109697: https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?109697 Without this patch, executing dmidecode on non-x86 systems can cause a system-level error (e.g. hardware hang, or system-wide exception). See also: http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=e12ec26e19e02281d3e7258c3aabb88a5cf5ec1d https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dmidecode/+bug/1821632 Note: I'm reporting this bug from an x86 Ubuntu 16.04 system, but I actually care about getting AArch64 Ubuntu 18.04 fixed. I hope that by getting this issue fixed in Debian, then Ubuntu will be more likely to import the fix. This probably entails applying the fix as a patch to existing Debian dmidecode-3.0 packages rather than (or in addition to) simply packaging a new version of dmidecode in Debian testing; I guess that Ubuntu wouldn't want to take a new version of dmidecode into a stable release, but hopefully will take a patch that Debian has applied. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers xenial-updates APT policy: (500, 'xenial-updates'), (500, 'xenial-security'), (500, 'xenial'), (100, 'xenial-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-170-generic (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dmidecode depends on: ii libc6 2.23-0ubuntu11 dmidecode recommends no packages. dmidecode suggests no packages. -- no debconf information ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
