Take 230 - General Availability

Product CPUSE offline package SmartConsole package

Security Gateway / Standalone

(TGZ)

(EXE)

Build 130

Security Management

(TGZ)

Blink Image for Security Gateway - Clean Install / Upgrade

(TGZ)

Blink Image for Security Management - Clean Install

(TGZ)

CPUSE Online Identifiers

Use these CPUSE Online Identifiers:

Check_Point_R80_20_JUMBO_HF_Bundle_T<Take number>_sk137592_Security_Gateway_and_Standalone_2_6_18_FULL.tgz

and

Check_Point_R80_20_JUMBO_HF_Bundle_T<Take number>_sk137592_Security_Management_3_10_FULL.tgz

List of Resolved Issues and New Features

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

ID

Product

Description

Take 230

Released on 4 September 2022 and declared as General Availability on 3 November 2022

PRJ-38397,
PRHF-23290

Security Management

An Application Control and URL Filtering update may get stuck because of a lock object duplicate issue.

PRJ-36187,

PRHF-22004

Logging

UPDATE: Amended the override_server_setting.sh script to support changes in the values of

RFL_SOLR_MAX_MERGE_COUNT and  RFL_SOLR_MAX_MERGE_THREAD_COUNT.

PRJ-30961,

EPS-562

Logging

In some scenarios, the Forensics report fails to open from Harmony Endpoint logs.

PRJ-39952,

PRHF-22814

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added support for RADIUS UPN authentication with MS-CHAPv2. To use it, enable the registry configuration in ckp_regedit -a SOFTWARE/Checkpoint/VPN1 RADIUS_MSCHAPV2_UPN -n 1.

PRJ-40506,
PMTR-85083

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added a defense mechanism against partial header attacks known as "Slowloris DoS" (CVE-2007-6750).

PRJ-40134,

PMTR-84236

Security Gateway

When Strict Hold is enabled, traffic is logged with the log "HTTP parsing error detected. Bypassing the request as defined in the Inspection Settings". Refer to sk169995.

PRJ-40643,

PRJ-38912

Security Gateway

When Anti-Virus Blade is enabled, there may be a continuous high memory consumption which can lead to latency.

PRJ-41003,

PRJ-40954

Security Gateway

In a VSX environment, SNMP queries to OSPF OIDs may fail.

PRJ-31455,
PRHF-16136

Security Gateway

The CPD process may unexpectedly exit and create core dump files.

PRJ-34167,
PRHF-20978

Security Gateway

After an upgrade, in a setup with a single Virtual System (VS), the Security Gateway may crash.

PRJ-34884,

PMTR-77524

Threat Prevention

Traffic bypassed due Threat Prevention exception is not accelerated.

PRJ-40045,
PRJ-34088

Threat Prevention

IPS and other Threat Prevention logs may not contain packet capture. And dmesg may be flooded with related errors.

PRJ-36430,

PMTR-77653

IPS

When ClusterXL is configured, a file may pass without inspection during a failover.

PRJ-37722,
PRHF-22465

DLP

DLP logs for files uploaded to Microsoft OneDrive may not show the initial file names and extensions. Refer to sk178290.

PRJ-39835,

PMTR-84079

ClusterXL

When reconnecting the OSPF interface on both members in a cluster, a failover may occur when receiving a ROUTED PNOTE on the Active member.

PRJ-39069,

PRHF-22676

SecureXL

UPDATE: Added a new kernel parameter "fw_allow_reverse_syn" for Smart Connection Reuse. This parameter allows or drops SYN packets coming from the reverse direction. The parameter is set to 0 by default, the Security Gateway drops such packets. Refer to sk24960.

PRJ-36854,
PRHF-21863

SecureXL

Policy installation may cause cluster failover and impact the traffic flowing through the cluster.

PRJ-40847,
PMTR-85427

VPN

UPDATE: Added a configurable protection for blocking brute-force attacks on VPN SNX portal. Refer to sk180271.

PRJ-40659,
PRHF-24446

VPN

There may be a low throughput in a Site-to-Site VPN tunnel between two VSX Gateways with enabled.

PRJ-27467,
PRHF-18056

Gaia OS

UPDATE: A description was added to the output of the "show backup logs" command with information about each column. Refer to sk173970.

PRJ-29070,
PRHF-16407

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Added support for the Excluded Files feature (sk116679) for XFS file system on Kernel 3.10.

PRJ-40305,

ODU-454

HCP

Added Update 9 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.

PRJ-40667,

ODU-478

HCP

Added Update 10 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.