Symantec Storage and Availability products and SHELLSHOCK bug impact

Customer ALERT:  Please take the time to read through the following notifications and alert your teams/customers regarding this bug.

 

The Symantec Storage Foundation Products position on the BASH ShellShock bug and the related Technotes are now published externally:

 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH225112

 

The pertinent content explaining the position of IA products is as follows:

 

It is of critical importance for customers to apply the available BASH patches immediately.

Check with the Operating System Vendor to determine if your version of BASH is affected and apply the vendor’s patch as necessary.

Further details are available in the Symantec overview of ShellShock:

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/shellshock-all-you-need-know-about-bash-bug-vulnerability

 

The Symantec products in the table below may interface with a vulnerable version of BASH on the host operating system. None of these IA products have been proven to be vulnerable.  As a precaution, for the Symantec products in the table below, we recommend that services are stopped and restarted after a patch for BASH has been applied.

 

                                Product BASH Status
Storage Foundation for Unix/Linux (SF) BASH is not distributed with this product
Storage Foundation and High Availability solutions (SFHA) BASH is not distributed with this product
Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS) BASH is not distributed with this product
Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SFRAC) BASH is not distributed with this product
Storage Foundation for Windows BASH is not distributed with this product
Volume Manager (VxVM) BASH is not distributed with this product
Volume Replicator (VVR) BASH is not distributed with this product
File Replicator (VFR) BASH is not distributed with this product
Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) BASH is not distributed with this product
Veritas File System (VxFS) BASH is not distributed with this product
Cluster Server (VCS) for Unix/Linux BASH is not distributed with this product
Cluster Server  for Windows (VCSW) BASH is not distributed with this product
ApplicationHA BASH is not distributed with this product
FileStore (S/W Appliance) A vulnerable version of BASH is distributed with FileStore, see technote TECH225136
FileStore N8300 (H/W appliance) A vulnerable version of BASH is distributed with FileStore, see technote TECH225136
Data Insight BASH is not distributed with this product
Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) BASH is not distributed with this product
CommandCentral Storage (CCS) BASH is not distributed with this product
Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) BASH is not distributed with this product
Symantec Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (DRO) BASH is not distributed with this product

 

FileStore Product:

If you are using the Symantec FileStore product, a patch for BASH is available from Symantec, reference tech note TECH225136 <http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH225136> for more information on how to obtain this patch.