Latest version dmidecode (3.3) still causes a crash using RHEL8.3 ! (dmidecode -u)

[rschu68]

After complete uninstall of the rpm's of RHEL8.3 dmidecode an compiling the latest version of dmidecode 3.3 there is still a coredump (which should have been resolved with the latest patch ? (19th)

[ ? ] --- when using the rpm (downgraded version - 3.2-5) proposed by the girls/guys from AlmaLinux i can use do dmidecode -u without any problem !
(https://bugs.almalinux.org/view.php?id=45)
-> It looks like an upstream distro issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1885823
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We'll have to wait for update.

Fortunately, the previous version of dmidecode doesn't have this issue.
But we don't have it in AlmaLinux as we're new distribution so if you need to mitigate the issue right now you should install the previous version of dmidecode from other distro.

Here is example with CloudLinux 8.2 package I've tested:

Downgrade to previous version

dnf downgrade https://repo.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux/8.2/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/dmidecode-3.2-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
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• with latest tgz download from github: (core dump)

dmidecode-dmidecode-3-3]# /usr/local/sbin/dmidecode -u

dmidecode 3.3

Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
159 structures occupying 9812 bytes.
Table at 0x0DF8601F.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 26 bytes
Header and Data:
00 1A 00 00 01 02 00 00 03 1F 90 0A 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 0C FF FF FF FF 00 00
Strings:
56 4D 77 61 72 65 2C 20 49 6E 63 2E 00
VMware, Inc.
56 4D 57 37 31 2E 30 30 56 2E 31 36 37 30 37 37
56 4D 57 37 31 2E 30 30 56 2E 31 36 37 30 37 3737 36 2E 42 36 34 2E 32 30 30 38 30 37 30 32 33
56 4D 57 37 31 2E 30 30 56 2E 31 36 37 30 37 3737 36 2E 42 36 34 2E 32 30 30 38 30 37 30 32 3330 00
VMW71.00V.16707776.B64.2008070230
08/07/2020

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[rschu68]

And still a core dump (make and make install on rhel8.4 .. first removed installed version from rhel)
? Latest (highest) version of Rhel8.4 =/= dmidecode.x86_64 1:3.2-8.el8
? No higher version for Rhel8.4 like 2.9 or 2.10...

But is working with: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/s8/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/dmidecode-3.2-10.el8.x86_64.rpm