Veritas CFS directories under /usr/lib/vxvm have world-writable permission

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Description

Error Message

 

[root@server101 ~]# ls -ald /usr/lib/vxvm/voladm.d/lib/vxkmiplibs
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root sys 44 Jun  5  2019 /usr/lib/vxvm/voladm.d/lib/vxkmiplibs


[root@server101 ~]# ls -ald  /usr/lib/vxvm/voladm.d/lib/vxkmiplibs/enum/doc
drwxrwxrwx. 2 root sys 22 Jun  5  2019 /usr/lib/vxvm/voladm.d/lib/vxkmiplibs/enum/doc


[root@server101 ~]# ls -ald /usr/lib/vxvm/voladm.d/lib/vxkmiplibs/kmip/core
drwxrwxrwx. 5 root sys 4096 Jun  5  2019 /usr/lib/vxvm/voladm.d/lib/vxkmiplibs/kmip/core

 

Resolution

The workaround is to perform a recursive "chmod" on the enum and kmip sub-directories, so that these directories and their content no longer have world-writable permission.  

This issue effects only 7.4.1 and it is fixed in 7.4.2. 

Issue/Introduction

Veritas CFS directories under /usr/lib/vxvm have world-writable permission

Additional Information

JIRA: STESC-4046