Take 117 - Ongoing

List of Resolved Issues and New Features

Note - This Take contains all fixes from all earlier Takes.

ID

Product

Description

Take 117

Released on 27 October 2019

PRJ-2725,
PMTR-38948

Upgrade

Added a pre-upgrade verification that Global network objects with NAT configuration are not supported.

PRJ-3605,
PMTR-39644

Security Management

Added ability to automatically determine the API process memory allocation to avoid "Out of memory" errors. Refer to sk119553.

PRJ-2983,
API-744

Security Management

In some scenarios, the show generic-objects API command fails with "Management Server failed to execute command". Refer to sk157693.

PRJ-2338,
PRHF-4046

Security Management

In some scenarios, user cannot discard or publish a worksession, receiving the general message "Internal error".

PRJ-4305,
PMTR-40468

Security Management

Added a mechanism to prevent the Management Server from starting if an import process was interrupted.

PRJ-3872,
PRHF-3463

Security Management

In some scenarios, size of the shadow_object.C file increases after each policy installation, eventually causing a failure in installing a policy.

PRHF-3242,
PRJ-658

Security Management

In a rare scenario, the policy verifier ignores rules with object named "Internet" used with negate operator.

PRJ-4515,
PMTR-39361

Security Management

Cannot export a .pdf file from the Licence inventory view after Jumbo HotFix installation on the Management server.

PRJ-1374,
CPM-2242

Security Management

High Availability synchronization between Management Servers fails with "Couldn't get peers for peers ids" message in the cpm.elg file.

PRJ-4240,
PMTR-38720

Security Management

When many users are connected to and actively working in the same domain in SmartConsole, they may experience:

  • Slowness in SmartConsole responses
  • Long duration of operations
  • High load on the Management Server

PRJ-3690,
PMTR-36555

Security Management

New policy creation may fail when there are no installation targets defined in this policy.

PRJ-5025,
PRHF-4877

Security Management

In some scenarios, policy verification process fails after reaching memory size of 4GB. Refer to sk161412.

PRJ-1517,
CPM-2264

Security Management

Performance and stability improvements in large High Availability setups.

PRJ-2646,
PMTR-38095

Security Management

In a rare scenario, the Security Management server does not start due to a missing object, or a duplication of objects.

PRJ-5250

Multi-Domain Management

NEW: Added the Domain Management Migration, Backup and Upgrade feature:

  • Backup and restore an individual Domain Management Server on a Multi-Domain Server.
  • Migrate a Multi-Domain Security Management from one Multi-Domain Server to a different Multi-Domain Server.
  • Migrate a Security Management Server to become a Domain Management Server on a Multi-Domain Server.
  • Migrate a Domain Management Server to become a Security Management Server.

For more information see sk156072.

PRJ-2787,
PMTR-41157

Multi-Domain Management

In some scenarios, upgrade from R80 fails due to an internal error related to deprecated application objects. Refer to sk157752.

PRJ-3880,
PRHF-5177

Compliance

In some scenarios, some of the Best Practices show "N\A" status in the Compliance Blade dashboard.

PRJ-2644,
SL-2509

Logging

Running views and reports with a filter fails if the filter contains a "NOT" operator combined with parentheses.

PRJ-395,
PMTR-28518

Logging

In some scenarios, lea_session processes consume 100% CPU causing the machine to slow down. Refer to sk142632.

PRJ-1324,
PRHF-3690

Logging

In some scenarios, when running mdsstart, the following error message is shown: "/opt/CPSmartLog-R80.20/bin/smartlogstop: line 65: /opt/CPmds-R80.20/customers/<name>/CPSmartLog-R80.20/log/smartlogRun.log: No such file or directory".

PRHF-4497,
PRJ-3209

Logging

In some Full HA environment scenarios, the "Logserver <Cluster virtual IP> is disconnected" error pops up in SmartConsole log view.

PRJ-1310,
PRHF-3681

Logging

In the Logs & Monitor view, the "File size" field is missing from the logs generated by Media Encryption & Port Protection Blade. Refer to sk157952.

PRHF-4975,
PRJ-4061

Logging

In some scenarios, when exporting logs with "Visible columns" option selected from SmartView, some columns return empty record. Refer to sk161712.

PRJ-3642,
PRHF-2607

Logging

In some scenarios, when SAM activity is defined and a Log server receives a high amount of packets, the FWD process on the Log server unexpectedly exits.

PRJ-3011,
PRHF-1554

Logging

In some scenarios, the log maintenance mechanism deletes the earliest logs due to mistake in Emergency mode maintenance. Refer to sk163813.

PRJ-3363,
PMTR-34580

Multi-Domain Management

In some scenarios, Administrator does not see that a revision was created in its Domain (on Domain level) after a Global policy was assigned to it.

PRJ-798
PMTR-36765

Multi-Domain Management

In some scenarios, the "Unable to connect to server. Please make sure the server is up and running." error appears when trying to log into single Domain from SmartConsole. Refer to sk153293.

PRJ-3687,
PMTR-7744

Multi-Domain Management

"dleserver.utils.UidManager" errors on cma_migrate failure on Multi-Domain Server upgraded from R80.

PRJ-4413,
PRHF-3285

Multi-Domain Management

In a rare scenario, FWM process unexpectedly exits on the Domain level during login.

PRJ-1881,
PRJ-783

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, user cannot delete a VS object since it is referenced by an automatically generated exception rule. Refer to sk167272.

PRJ-4135,
PRHF-1847

SmartConsole

Administrators with "\" in their username receive the "Error Occurred" pop-up when trying to view a packet capture. Refer to sk140992.

PRJ-4430,
PMTR-27392

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, when there is a large quantity of unused permission profiles in the system, the CPM server takes a long time to start.

PRHF-2194,
PRJ-4433

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, Client certificate is removed when deleting Domain that is included in certificate's permissions.

PRJ-1969,
PRJ-4546,
PRHF-3268

SmartConsole

In setups with a large quantity of network object, users may experience slowness when editing the HTTPS Inspection policy. Refer to sk147134.

  • This fix requires R80.20 SmartConsole Build 081 to be installed.

PRJ-4531,
PRJ-965

SmartConsole

In a rare scenario, the DNS Maximum Reply Length IPS protection is not enforced.

  • This fix requires R80.20 SmartConsole Build 081 to be installed.

PRJ-3869,
PRHF-4655

SmartConsole

In a rare scenario, when user clicks on Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) options in the Security gateway settings or on 'Next hop' column inside MTA settings, SmartConsole shows "Not Responding" and freezes. Refer to sk161232

  • This fix requires R80.20 SmartConsole Build 081 to be installed.

PRJ-777

SmartConsole

In a rare scenario, the FTP Bounce, Port Overflow and Known Ports IPS protections are not enforced.

  • This fix requires R80.20 SmartConsole Build 081 to be installed.

MCFG-199,
PRJ-2383

SmartProvisioning

SmartUpdate generates audit log even when no action was taken.

PROV-2068,
PRJ-4671

SmartProvisioning

In some scenarios in SmartProvisioning:

  • When executing Run Script on SmartProvisioning profile, the application disconnects from the server and is closed.
  • When executing Push Settings and Actions the "The action was not performed due to maintenance mode" error appears.

PRJ-5512,
PMTR-42219

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, fw monitor on Security gateway shows some packets that are handled by SecureXL and not FireWall-1.

PRJ-5502,
PMTR-40456

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, using "kill" or pressing Ctrl+C on the "fw monitor" process does not finish it.

PRJ-5509,
PMTR-38750

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, fw monitor fails to show IPv6 traffic in SecureXL.

PRJ-5504,
PMTR-40523

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, the "fwmonitor_kiss_add_to_global_buf: all the buffers are full" error is displayed even after the heavy traffic is stopped.

PRJ-5506,
PMTR-40455

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, Secure Network Distributor (SND) consumes high CPU when running fw monitor.

PRJ-5507,
PMTR-41300

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, when running "fw monitor" with "-e" flag, SecureXL traffic is not filtered, and all traffic is displayed.

PRJ-5503,
PMTR-39556

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, incorrect chain number and name are displayed by "fw monitor -p all".

PRJ-5497,
PMTR-39046

Security Gateway

Added ability for fw monitor to support monitoring traffic on Acceleration Card.

PRJ-4310,
STRM-149

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, a remote client disconnects after one hour although the session is not idle. Refer to sk160213.

PRJ-770,
SWG-1922

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, memory usage may rise on Security gateway, when using service with resource with "Optimize URL logging" feature enabled. Refer to sk153052.

SWG-2174,
PRJ-4179

Security Gateway

Some Web sites cannot be opened when Content Awareness or Anti-Virus/Anti-Bot is enabled, and Security gateway is configured as proxy.

PRJ-2918,
UP-293,
PRHF-4494

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, Security gateway may crash due to NULL pointer dereference.

PMTR-40937,
PRJ-4613

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, VoIP traffic is dropped with "allocate_port_impl: could not find a free port;" error in dmesg.

PRJ-697,
QOS-22

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, Security gateway crashes during QoS policy installation.

PMTR-35854,
PRJ-3040

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, changing the xmit-hash-policy of the bonding group while machine handling traffic, causes it to crash. Refer to sk154573.

PRJ-4806,
PMTR-41392

Security Gateway

Added ability to enable NAT over specific IP address avoiding a source port allocation.

PRJ-1016,
PRHF-5456

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, packets with TTL1 are dropped when using security zones in the Access rulebase.

PRJ-3562,
STRM-109

Security Gateway

Disabling connections timestamp does not work on active streaming connections. Refer to sk62700.

PRJ-4760,
PMTR-40677

IPS

In some scenarios, IPS update fails as a result of error in management server installation.

PRJ-3766,
MUX-174

Content Awareness

In some scenarios, when the Content Awareness Blade is enabled, uploading files via ShareFile stucks at 100%.

PRJ-5764

HTTPS Inspection

Improved TLS implementation for TLS Inspection and Categorization - Server Name Indications (SNI).

TLS 1.2 support for additional cipher suites:

  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
  • TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
  • TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
  • TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
  • X25519 Elliptic Curve
  • P-521 Elliptic Curve
  • Full ECDSA support

In addition, improved the fail open/close mechanism and logging for validations.

For the complete list of supported cipher suites, see sk104562.

PRJ-4839,
PMTR-4178

SSL Inspection

In a rare scenario, when SSL Inspection is enabled and there is big latency, Microsoft websites (for example Azure) may not respond. Refer to sk150175.

PRJ-3368,
PMTR-13884

Threat Prevention

Deleting a Threat Prevention profile may fail if the IPS profile has many overrides. Refer to sk136552.

PRJ-689,
PMTR-26827

Application Control

In some scenarios, custom Application Object that was initiated with wrong "Application Risk" value may cause connectivity problems. Refer to sk140892.

PRJ-4517,
PMTR-38645,
GAIA-5872

ClusterXL

Added support for Cluster Load Sharing without IPSec VPN. To enable the support, refer to sk162637.

PRJ-1205,
PRHF-3633

ClusterXL

In some scenarios, after adding a vlan to the subordinate bond cluster member may go down.

PRJ-3298,
PMTR-38208

ClusterXL

In some scenarios, when changing cluster topology and installing the policy, the cluster fails over. Refer to sk156335.

PRJ-3315,
PMTR-37812

ClusterXL

In some scenarios, pushing policy in order to update the cluster topology during high load, causes the members to fail-over. Refer to sk154575.

PRJ-480,
PRHF-3328

ClusterXL

In some scenarios, the xmit-hash-policy of a Bond interface with the vlan causes the cluster member to go down. Refer to sk151412.

PRJ-3294,
PRHF-4301

CoreXL

In a rare scenario, custom affinity configuration is overwritten when HT is enabled. Refer to sk158112.

PRJ-1201,
PRJ-1843,
PRHF-3487

SecureXL

In some scenarios, Policy Based Routing (PBR) does not work properly when acceleration is enabled.

PRJ-3598,
PMTR-39660

SecureXL

In a rare scenario, a VSX gateway may crash. Refer to sk160912.

PRJ-1640,
PRJ-1637,
PMTR-37736,
PMTR-37727

SecureXL

In some scenarios, packets with IP options are not forwarded across bridge interfaces. Refer to Issue #3 in sk154892.

PMTR-40703,
PRJ-4620

SecureXL

In some scenarios, sending IP fragmented traffic through a Virtual Switch or Virtual Router fails with "Virtual defragmentation error".

PRJ-2114,
PMTR-29033,
PRHF-4050

Routing

In a rare scenario, the Standby member of ClusterXL incorrectly calculates the routing protocol priorities, causing the routes to be synchronized in the wrong way.

PRJ-306,
ROUT-318

Routing

In some scenarios, Routed Pnote in 'Problem' state and ClusterXL member is down after enabling OSPF. Refer to sk123317.

PRJ-307,
ROUT-209

Routing

Enhancement: Improved the memory handling mechanism in Routed.

GAIA-4695,
PRJ-614

Gaia OS

When running "service vmtoolsd restart" command on Gaia installation with VMware, the "Installing memory driver: FATAL: Module vmmemctl not found. [FAILED]" error is displayed although the vmw_balloon.ko driver is loaded.

PRJ-3793,
PRHF-1778

Gaia OS

Enhancement: The maximum size of the arp table was increased to 4096.

PRJ-440,
PRJ-4541,
02473276

Gaia OS

"Authentication failure" error when authenticating with TACACS+ user that has special characters in their password. Refer to sk101332.

PRJ-3625

Gaia OS

On Smart-1 525/5050/5150, user cannot open the iDRAC without installing a dedicated Hotfix.

PRJ-3141,
GAIA-2861

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, the IGB driver interfaces are occasionally down after reboot of a Management machine. Refer to sk135532.

PRJ-1029,
GAIA-5047

Gaia OS

Changing the xmit-hash-policy of the bond may cause all static arp entries to disappear from the arp -a output. Refer to sk152892.

PRJ-1604,
PMTR-27831

VPN

NEW: Connectivity enhancements for Remote Access clients using internal Office mode allocation with a long timeout.

PRJ-4152,
PMTR-38041

VPN

In some scenarios, the Phase-2 negotiation fails with "Reason: Wrong value for: Encapsulation Mode" after upgrade. Refer to sk157092.

PRJ-2874,
PMTR-38894

VPN

Connectivity improvement for Remote Access clients in environments with 3rd party VPN tunnels.

PRJ-2347,
PMTR-38631

VPN

Remote Access client randomly disconnect / unable to connect when DHCP multi-homed server is configured.

PRJ-2434,
VSX-1866

VSX

Added the option to configure reject routes via vsx_provisioning_tool on Scalable Platforms Appliances. Refer to sk151473.

PRJ-5304,
PMTR-42418

VSX

Running fw monitor with -v flag on a VSX gateway may cause the fw monitor to quit with the "Segmentation fault" error. Refer to sk162402.

PRJ-3433,
PRHF-5371

VSX

In some scenarios, traffic is dropped on VSX when using SecureXL. Refer to sk160352.

PRJ-4265,
PRHF-5105

VSX

In a rare scenario, machine crashes when using VSX with Virtual Switch (VSW).

PRJ-4955,
GAIA-6397

VSX

In some scenarios, traffic does not pass in VSX setup with VS-VSW-VS topology and some Threat Prevention Blades enabled on VSs.

PRJ-4683,
SPC-1903

VSX

In some scenarios, running the "fw vsx resctrl monitor disable" command or disabling VSX Resource Monitor via CPView causes crash of the VSX Gateway. Refer to sk144432.

PRJ-4960,
PMTR-38779,
MUX-186

Hardware

In a rare scenario, the watchdog process of Falcon Acceleration Card unexpectedly exits.