World writable permissions on VRTSsfmh files

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Article ID: 100043975

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Description

Error Message

# ls -adl /var/VRTSat_lhc  /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/VRTSat_lhc /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/profiles
drwxrwxrwt. 2 root root  6 Feb  5  2018 /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/profiles
drwxrwxrwt. 2 root root 96 Aug  9 01:16 /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/VRTSat_lhc
drwxrwxrwt. 2 root root  6 Jan 17  2018 /var/VRTSat_lhc
 

Resolution

The permission can be manually changed like following safely:

# chmod -R 755 /var/VRTSat_lhc  /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/VRTSat_lhc /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/profiles

# ls -adl /var/VRTSat_lhc  /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/VRTSat_lhc /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/profiles
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  6 Feb  5  2018 /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/profiles
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 96 Aug  9 01:16 /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/VRTSat_lhc
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  6 Jan 17  2018 /var/VRTSat_lhc
 

Permanent fix will included in 7.4.0.100HF and onwards.

Issue/Introduction

Below files have world writable permissions: RHEL7.2 / VRTSsfmh-7.3.0.0-0.x86_64 
/var/VRTSat_lhc
/var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/VRTSat_lhc
/var/opt/VRTSsfmh/sec/profiles
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