Base SAS 9.4_M8 Hot Fix Downloads

NOTE: All Operating Systems: To ensure that you apply all the relevant hot fixes for this product and release, search for 70709. Then, download and apply the hot fixes listed on the page for SAS Note 70709.
To ensure that your system is completely up to date with all fixes, consider using the SAS Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool (SASHFADD).

Released: March 12, 2024

Documentation: L8X045os.html

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L8X046 was replaced by L8X067

L8X047 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70709

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Base SAS® and SAS/STAT®

L8X047

NOTE: If you install this hot fix you must also apply L8X067 for Base SAS 9.4_M8 and N3S001 for Base SAS User Interface 9.4 - M8

All Operating Systems: To ensure that you apply all the relevant hot fixes for this product and release, search for 70709. Then, download and apply the hot fixes listed on the page for SAS Note 70709.
To ensure that your system is completely up to date with all fixes, consider using the SAS Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool (SASHFADD).

Released: April 04, 2024

Documentation: L8X047os.html

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L8X048 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70722

Running PROC UPLOAD or PROC DOWNLOAD between a SAS/CONNECT® client on SAS® Viya® and a SAS® 9.4 SAS/CONNECT® spawner fails with "Insufficient memory"

L8X048

Released: March 27, 2024

Documentation: L8X048os.html

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L8X049 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70088

Passwords appear in the SAS® log when the SQL procedure contains the _tree option and an embedded LIBNAME statement

L8X002

70090

A "Parse Failure..." message occurs in the SAS® log when running SPD Server PROC SQL with hex literals

L8X002

70279

The SUBSTRN and KSUBSTRN functions used in PROC SQL with a numeric first argument return an incorrect result

L8X032

70641

The column alias is not used in an ON clause that is sent to a database in SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Vertica

L8X043

70801

The SQL procedure displays the note “The execution of this query involves performing one or more Cartesian product joins that can not be optimized”

L8X049

Released: May 22, 2024

Documentation: L8X049os.html

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L8X051 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70776

PROC HPFEVENTS might result in a Read Access Violation or Segmentation Violation

L8X051

70778

PROC TIMEID might result in a Floating Point Exception or Segmentation Violation

L8X051

NOTE: If you install this hot fix and have SAS/ETS 15.3 installed, you must also install hot fix N4M001.

Released: April 25, 2024

Documentation: L8X051os.html

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L8X052 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70714

A potential memory leak occurs in SAS® 9.4M8 (TS1M8) with the “ERROR: Read Access Violation DATASTEP”

L8X052

Released: April 22, 2024

Documentation: L8X052os.html

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L8X053 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70340

The creation of very large log files in SAS® Studio could cause excessive and retained heap usage on SASServer2_1

L8X037

70797

Running SAS ® 9.4M7 (TS1M7) or SAS® 9.4M8 (TS1M8) with non-English European languages might result in an error

L8X053

NOTE: If you install this hot fix to address the issue described in SAS Note 70340, you must also apply Base SAS 9.4_M8 hot fixes L8X067, L8X038 (Unix and Windows only), L8X069(MVS only)

Released: May 15, 2024

Documentation: L8X053os.html

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L8X054 was replaced by L8X069

L8X056 was replaced by L8X061

L8X057 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70709

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Base SAS® and SAS/STAT®

L8X057

Released: June 10, 2024

Documentation: L8X057os.html

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L8X058 was replaced by L8X061

L8X059 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70872

The Explorer Window from the z/OS Display Manager (Interactive SAS) might generate an S0C4 abend when selecting "z/OS Data Sets"

L8X059

NOTE: If you install this hot fix and have Base SAS 9.4_M8 installed, you must also install hot fix L8X069.

Released: June 27, 2024

Documentation: L8X059os.html

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L8X060 was replaced by L8X067

L8X061 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70140

The ODS PDF destination with ACCESSIBLE option and the PROC FACTOR procedure might generate a segmentation violation error

L8X019

70305

Using the PDFSECURITY=HIGH system option results in PDF output that is encoded with 128-bit RC4 encoding instead of AES 256 encoding

L8X025

70709

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Base SAS® and SAS/STAT®

L8X044

70805

Some data points are plotted incorrectly in ODS Graphics output if there is a break in the Y axis

L8X056

70827

Text might be truncated when using the Column_Span option in the ODS Region statement

L8X058

70831

Using PROC MIXED with the ODS PDF destination, ENCODING=WHEBREW, and LOCALE=HEBREW_ISRAEL causes SAS® software to terminate

L8X061

Released: July 03, 2024

Documentation: L8X061os.html

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L8X062 was replaced by L8X067

L8X063 was replaced by L8X069

L8X064 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70709

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Base SAS® and SAS/STAT®

L8X064

Released: September 16, 2024

Documentation: L8X064os.html

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L8X065 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70709

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Base SAS® and SAS/STAT®

L8X065

Released: August 07, 2024

Documentation: L8X065os.html

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L8X066 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70709

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Base SAS® and SAS/STAT®

L8X066

Released: August 07, 2024

Documentation: L8X066os.html

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L8X067 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

69952

Using the * comment operator mid-line within a format definition in PROC FORMAT might cause subsequent procedures steps to abend

L8X006

69899

Calling a user-defined function with the PROC FORMAT OTHER= argument can cause SAS® to stop responding

L8X008

70340

The creation of very large log files in SAS® Studio could cause excessive and retained heap usage on SASServer2_1

L8X035

70431

The UNIVARIATE procedure might generate a Segmentation Violation Error in SAS

L8X035

70709

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Base SAS® and SAS/STAT®

L8X046

70869

A security vulnerability exists when IOM TRACE logging is enabled

L8X060

NOTE: If you install this hot fix to address the issue described in SAS Note 70402, you must also apply L8X069 and M4B010 for Base SAS 9.4_M8.
If you install this hot fix to address the issue described in SAS Note 70340, you must also apply Base SAS 9.4_M8 hot fixes L8X053, L8X038 (Unix and Windows only), L8X069(MVS only)
If you install this hot fix you must also apply L8X047 for Base SAS 9.4_M8 and N3S001 for Base SAS User Interface 9.4 - M8
If you install this hot fix to address the issue described in SAS Note 70869, you must also apply M4B010 for Base SAS 9.4_M8.

All Operating Systems: To ensure that you apply all the relevant hot fixes for this product and release, search for 70709. Then, download and apply the hot fixes listed on the page for SAS Note 70709.
To ensure that your system is completely up to date with all fixes, consider using the SAS Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool (SASHFADD).

Released: September 10, 2024

Documentation: L8X067os.html

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L8X068 was replaced by L8X069

L8X069 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70197

Initialization of SAS® 9.4M5 (TS1M5) and later for z/OS fails with a system abend 0C4-10 when the machine is configured for more than 16 processors

L8X023

70340

The creation of very large log files in SAS® Studio could cause excessive and retained heap usage on SASServer2_1

L8X039

70796

You encounter the message, "ERROR 23-2: Invalid option name PERMISSION" in SAS® 9.4M7 (TS1M7)

L8X054

70771

SAS/ACCESS ® Interface to DB2 threads are left active when used from the SAS/CONNECT® server and the SAS/CONNECT server abruptly terminates

L8X063

66729

The CONTENTS procedure on z/OS with the V6 LIBNAME engine generates incorrect times for the "Created" and "Last Modified" time values

L8X068

70978

Pervasive Encryption fails with an error similar to "ERROR 22-7: Invalid option name..."

L8X069

NOTE: If you install this hot fix to address the issue described in SAS Note 70402, you must also apply L8X067 and M4B010 for Base SAS 9.4_M8.
If you install this hot fix to address the issue described in SAS Note 70340, you must also apply Base SAS 9.4_M8 hot fixes L8X067, and L8X053.

Released: September 30, 2024

Documentation: L8X069os.html

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L8X070 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

71040

DOSUBL function generates a Read Access Violation error

L8X070

Released: December 03, 2024

Documentation: L8X070os.html

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L8X071 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70985

Running PROC REPORT might cause a segmentation violation or stack corruption

L8X071

Released: November 26, 2024

Documentation: L8X071os.html

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M4B001 was replaced by M4B010

M4B002 was replaced by M4B010

M4B003 was replaced by M4B010

M4B004 was replaced by M4B010

M4B005 was replaced by M4B010

M4B006 was replaced by M4B010

M4B007 was replaced by M4B010

M4B008 was replaced by M4B010

M4B009 was replaced by M4B010

M4B010 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70230

SAS® 9.4M8 (TS1M8) might display an OpenSSL 3 "legacy" provider warning at initialization

M4B001

70859

An intermittent exception occurs in SAS Workspace Server when a client is no longer running

M4B002

70496

The SAS® Environment Manager Service Architecture enablement might fail on getDBMirror if FIPS is enabled

M4B004

70783

SAS® Infrastructure for Risk Management job flows might fail due to an encryption failure

M4B005

70869

A security vulnerability exists when IOM TRACE logging is enabled

M4B006

70846

SAS® 9.4M8 (TS1M8) client connections to SAS® Cloud Analytic Services fail with the error "Missing CA trust list"

M4B007

70905

Support for the 2048 and 4096 key lengths with AES encryption on z/OS

M4B008

70504

Support for the IBM "System SSL" for z64

M4B010

71064

Performance improvements with SAS/SECURE™ and AES encryption

M4B010

71068

SAS® 9.4M8 (TS1M8) encounters OpenSSL errors on RHEL 9.5

M4B010

NOTE: If you install this hot fix to address the issue described in SAS Note 70402, you must also apply L8X069 and L8X067 for Base SAS 9.4_M8.
If you install this hot fix to address the issue described in SAS Note 70869, you must also apply L8X067 for Base SAS 9.4_M8.

Released: December 10, 2024

Documentation: M4B010os.html ^D

Download: M4B010os.zip

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M8S001 was replaced by M8S002

M8S002 for z/OS

Base SAS 9.4_M8

Issue(s) Addressed:

Introduced:

70344

The PHREG procedure contains a stack-corruption vulnerability if you incorrectly specify the RUN statement

M8S001

70505

PROC FCMP package names might not find the function and return "WARNING: Cannot find function 'function_name' in any of the libraries specified"

M8S001

70466

SAS® Model Implementation Platform returns an error when loading a large number of models

M8S001

70709

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Base SAS® and SAS/STAT®

M8S002

Released: March 05, 2024

Documentation: M8S002os.html ^D

Download: M8S002os.zip

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