Bug ID 879829: HA daemon sod cannot bind to ports numbered lower than 1024

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1

Fixed In:
16.1.0, 16.0.1.2, 15.1.3, 14.1.4

Opened: Feb 11, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

If the network high availability (HA) daemon sod is configured to use a port number that is lower than 1024, the binding fails with a permission-denied error. This affects binding to ports on both management and self IP addresses. Example log messages: /var/log/ltm err sod[2922]: 010c003b:3: bind fails on recv_sock_fd addr 1.2.3.4 port 1023 error Permission denied. notice sod[2992]: 010c0078:5: Not listening for unicast failover packets on address 1.2.3.4 port 1023. /var/log/auditd/audit.log type=AVC msg=audit(1578067041.047:17108): avc: denied { net_bind_service } for pid=2922 comm="sod" capability=10 scontext=system_u:system_r:f5sod_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:f5sod_t:s0 tclass=capability

Impact

A network high availability (HA) connection configured to use a port number lower than 1024 on an affected version does not function.

Conditions

-- high availability (HA) daemon sod is configured to use a port lower than 1024 for network high availability (HA) operations. -- Version 13.1.0 or later.

Workaround

Change the port number to 1024 or higher. Note: UDP port 1026 is the default.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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