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December 24th, 2021 07:00

Trouble confirming environment variable LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS

I am attempting to apply the workaround for the Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) to an AVE (Avamar Virtual Edition) running 18.2.

I am following these instruction provided by Dell and I am having trouble with step seven (7) DSA-2021-277: Dell EMC Avamar Update for Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) | Dell US.

Here is step 7 from the link.

  1. Confirm the environment variable LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS is set by running the following command:


printenv | grep -i log4j

The output should appear similar to the following from the previous command:

LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS=true

When I run the command "printenv | grep -i log4j" I don't get any output and so I am concerned that the environment variable is not set-up correctly.

The environment file at /etc/environment looks like this:

#
# This file is parsed by pam_env module
#
# Syntax: simple "KEY=VAL" pairs on seperate lines
LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS=true

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/vmware/bin"
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