Problem Note 68850: A stack-corruption vulnerability occurs with a SAS® session that contains a DATA step and an ODS HTML5 statement
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Severity: High
Description: Within a DATA step, if writing to HTML5, a traceback error might occur. Here are examples of errors that you can encounter:
ERROR: Recursive Segmentation Violations - system exiting
System Aborting Status=803fc21e.
System Aborting Status=803fc21e.
ERROR: An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:
The SAS task name is [DATASTEP]
Segmentation Violation
Segmentation Violation
Potential Impact: This corruption might result in a vulnerability to arbitrary code execution or to denial-of-service attacks.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Solaris for x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| z/OS 64-bit | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| z/OS | 9.4 TS1M6 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
Viya on Linux: An update for this issue is available for SAS Viya 3.5. For instructions on how to access and apply software updates, see the Updating Your SAS Viya software section in the SAS Viya 3.5 for Linux Deployment Guide at
http://documentation.sas.com/?softwareId=administration&softwareVersion=3.5&softwareContextId=softwareUpdatesA fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.4_M7 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/I9R.html#68850
Using a DATA step along with an ODS HTML5 statement might generate a Segmentation Violation error.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2022-02-01 13:30:48 |
| Date Created: | 2022-01-28 13:06:30 |