Take 76 - Ongoing

List of Resolved Issues and New Features

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

ID

Product

Description

Take 76

Released on 11 October 2019

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General

Added GUI support for Check Point 26000 and 16000 appliances. Refer to sk162832.

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General

Added support for Check Point 26000T and 16000 model appliances and CloudGuard IaaS products AWS, Azure, GCP.

PRJ-2726,
PMTR-38948

Upgrade

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

PRJ-718,
PMTR-36761

Security Management

Enhancement: added feature for tracking random CPM process crashes on Security Management server. Refer to sk150913.

PRJ-3604,
PMTR-39644

Security Management

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

PRJ-4241,
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-4729,
PMTR-41157

Security Management

After deleting a network object that is part of a network group, the audit log of the group modification does not show who is the removed member. Refer to sk164057.

PRHF-3242,
PRJ-659

Security Management

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

PRJ-4306,
PMTR-40468

Security Management

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

PRJ-2339,
PRHF-4046

Security Management

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

PRJ-1762,
PMTR-37924

Security Management

Due to a failed full sync, FWM was restarted unexpectedly and obsolete domain sessions were used in the global policy assignment.

PMTR-23492,
PRJ-2847

Security Management

Added support for Internal CA certificate replacement.

PRJ-3874,
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.

PRJ-2341,
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-1493,
PMTR-38249

Security Management

In some scenarios, traffic is dropped with "network_classifier_get_dynobjs_for_ip: failed to get UUIDs for IP 0.0.0.0" and "kfunc_ip_ranges_to_dynobj: network_classifier_get_dynobjs_for_ip failed" errors in dmesg when dynamic object is used in access policy.

PRJ-1380,
PRHF-3514

Security Management

In some scenarios, upgrade from R7x fails with core file of cpdb process due to an empty field in 'autoupdate_and_install_settings' object.

PRJ-1974,
CPM-2300

Security Management

In some rare scenarios CPM server does not start after a failure in delete domain.

PRJ-1518,
CPM-2264

Security Management

Performance and stability improvements in large High Availability setups.

PRJ-3879,
PMTR-39361,
PMTR-40489

Security Management

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

PRJ-1375,
CPM-2242

Security Management

In some scenarios, High Availability synchronization between Management Servers fails and HA menu is disabled.

PRJ-3689,
PMTR-36555

Security Management

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

PRJ-1903,
PRJ-1899

Security Management

After opening and searching in pickers for a few times, the "error retrieving results" message appears when opening a picker.

PRJ-2488,
PMTR-38103

Security Management

In some scenarios, a validation incident about Invalid Email Address is presented in SmartConsole after upgrade from R77.

PRJ-2441,
PMTR-38293

Security Management

In some scenarios, QoS policy installation fails when installing the Blade without installing Access or Threat Blades of the same policy first.

PRJ-2788,
PMTR-37630

Multi-Domain Management

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

PRJ-5639

CPInfo

In some scenarios, the CPInfo tool does not show/collect the correct information after Jumbo Hotfix installation. Refer to sk162775.

PRJ-4415,
PRHF-5177

Compliance

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

PRJ-1273,
SL-1052

Logging

In a rare scenario, when an environment has many gateways (dozens), FWM on the log server may crash when reaching to 4 GB memory.

PRJ-4965
SL-2456

Logging

In a rare scenario, a specific log fails to be written and an alert informing on this is displayed in SmartConsole.

PRJ-2678,
PRHF-3831

Logging

In a rare scenario, the accounting of bytes in a report is not accurate.

PRJ-871,
PRHF-2806

Logging

In a rare scenario, SmartConsole does not show indexed logs because the LOG_INDEXER process stopped working. Refer to sk152934.

PRJ-1158,
PRHF-3561

Logging

In SmartView, if a view contains 2 map widgets, one displaying source countries and the other displaying destination countries, drilling down on one of them may display incorrect data.

PRHF-4975,
PRJ-4062

Logging

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

PRJ-2645,
SL-2509

Logging

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

PRJ-3529,
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-3048,
PMTR-39455

Multi-Domain Management

If user deletes a CLM from a Domain (it's forbidden, the validation was added), the CLM remains as partially deleted and user cannot create a new one.

PRJ-3527,
PMTR-40003

Multi-Domain Management

Objects on Domain level that should be shown on the Multi-Domain Server level, sometimes are not shown correctly.

PRJ-2385,
PMTR-38670

Multi-Domain Management

In a rare scenario, CPM server fails to start after successful Domain deletion.

PMTR-38211,
PRJ-2172

Multi-Domain Management

In some scenarios, logs are not saved under $MDS_FWDIR/log/failed_tasks directory.

PRJ-799,
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-1567,
SMCUPG-719

Multi-Domain Management

Deletion of Domain failed with "Could not send message" error when having large amount of gateways in the Domain. The Domain remain without Domain Servers.

PRJ-1303,
PRJ-1305

Multi-Domain Management

When running the 'add-domain' Web API command on an existing Domain, the original Domain may be deleted.

PRJ-1444,
PRHF-3783

Multi-Domain Management

In some scenarios, gateways are missing in the 'Gateways and Servers' view in SmartConsole on the MDS level.

PRJ-2245,
PMTR-36614

Multi-Domain Management

The mds_backup command will generate an output file of format .tar instead of .tgz to improve the duration time of backup (mds_backup) and restore (mds_restore) of Multi-Domain Server. Refer to sk163300.

PRJ-1532

Multi-Domain Management

In a specific scenario, Global policy rules may change order after Multi-Domain Server upgrade. Refer to sk155432.

PRJ-374,
PRHF-3285

Multi-Domain Management

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

PRJ-1970,
PRJ-4545,
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.

  • To fully resolve the issue, R80.30 SmartConsole Build 20 (or higher) should be installed.

PRJ-3870,
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.

  • To fully resolve the issue, R80.30 SmartConsole Build 20 (or higher) should be installed.

PRJ-619,
PRHF-3415

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, upgrade fails with "com.checkpoint.management.classes.dle.triggers.internal.VersionInfo.VersionInfo" exception in cpm.elg file.

PRJ-1879,
PRJ-1864

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, SmartConsole unexpectedly exits while adding or removing many objects via Web API.

PRJ-1210,
PRHF-3465

SmartConsole

Pre-shared keys are missing after upgrade.

PRJ-832,
PMTR-36527

SmartConsole

Redundant layers appear in the output of the 'show-package' command when Global policy holding more than one layer, is assigned to Domain.

PRJ-1144,
API-549

SmartConsole

Management API command "put file" can be used for command execution with certain permissions.

PRJ-1434,
PMTR-31155

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, SmartConsole terminates when installing policy on many targets at once.

PRHF-2194,
PRJ-4434

SmartConsole

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

PRJ-2142,
PMTR-38301

SmartConsole

Added the protectionExternalInfo property in the overrides object that displays the CVEs in the output of 'show threat-profile' command.

PRJ-2419,
PRJ-1407,
PMTR-38710

SmartProvisioning

In VPN Community managed by SmartProvisioining:

  • When adding SMB gateway to the VPN community, VPN tunnel may not been established.
  • When changing security profile in VPN community, the VPN settings are not changed.
  • Policy installation fails for cluster member of CO Gateway.

PROV-2068,
PRJ-4672

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.

MCFG-199,
PRJ-2384

SmartProvisioning

SmartUpdate generates audit log even when no action was taken.

PRHF-3392,
PRJ-869

SmartProvisioning

In VPN star community managed by SmartProvisioning, VPN tunnels may not be established after installing policy to CO gateway (center). Refer to sk152612.

PRJ-4311,
PRJ-4314,
GAIA-6260,
STRM-149

Security Gateway

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

PRJ-3589,
STRM-109,
PRJ-3564

Security Gateway

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

PRJ-4416,
QOS-22,
PRJ-698

Security Gateway

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

PRJ-4804,
PMTR-41392

Security Gateway

Enabled avoiding source port allocation for specific predefined connections.

PRJ-4147,
UP-293

Security Gateway

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

  • Fix is relevant for Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-4615,
PMTR-40937,
PRJ-4554

Security Gateway

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

PRJ-4758

URL Filtering

Improved scalability and resiliency of URL Filtering service.

  • Fix is relevant for Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-4845,
PRJ-4844,
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-1161

IPS

CMA migration may take a long time when there are many IPS protections local overrides.

PRJ-5173,
PRJ-2168,
PRJ-2108

IPS

In some scenarios, categorization of HTTPS sites over IPv6 does not work as expected.

PRJ-1666

Threat Emulation

Management Server upgrade may fail in these scenarios:

  • There are Threat Emulation settings, which remained from Security Gateway objects that were already removed.
  • There are Threat Emulation settings, which are configured in the cluster member objects and not in the cluster object.

Refer to sk150793.

PRJ-3370,
PMTR-13884

Threat Prevention

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

PRJ-4148,
PMTR-40174

Threat Prevention

Upgrade fails due to invalid Threat Emulation settings connected to gateways that no longer exist or to cluster members.

  • Fix will affect only Advanced upgrade

PRJ-5077,
PMTR-41915

Threat Prevention

In a rare scenario, R80.30 Security gateway managed by R80.30 Management crashes when running a Threat Prevention Software Blade with the Forensics feature enabled. Refer to sk161812.

  • Fix is relevant for Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-1919,
PRJ-2416,
PRJ-2417,
PRJ-3510

Identity Awareness

Security hardening for Identity Awareness Agent (IDA) enforcement according to XFF IP.

PRJ-3478,
PRJ-1952

Identity Awareness

Performance improvement of Identity Awareness kernel tables for Cluster and multi-fw1 instances gateways.

PRJ-3478,
IDA-1966

Identity Awareness

In a rare scenario, identities are missing from all connected Identity Gateways (PEPs).

IDA-1987,
PRJ-1956

Identity Awareness

In a rare scenario, sessions longer than 24 hours disappear from the Identity Gateway (PEP) but exist on the Identity server (PDP)

IDA-1981

Identity Awareness

Users are not propagated from the PDP to the PEP on a specific network due to a rare race condition between register and unregister requests triggered by different instances or cluster members.

PRJ-1926

Identity Awareness

The output of pep show pdp all command on the Identity Gateway (PEP) contains "inx invalid type (0)" instead of an Identity server (PDP) IP address.
Refer to Scenario #3 in sk156953.

PMTR-32539,
PRHF-3443

Identity Awareness

Users are not authenticated when an identity source provides the login name in an 'User Principal Name' format "user@domain". Refer to sk147417.

PRJ-3137,
PRJ-5259,
PMTR-38645

ClusterXL

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

PRJ-1657,
PRJ-5035,
PMTR-30582

ClusterXL

In some scenarios, unable to connect to the Standby Cluster member from a non-local subnet via SSH or WebUI. Refer to sk147493.

PRJ-2147,
PRJ-3439,
PRHF-4105

ClusterXL

In a rare scenario, the fw_workers process consumes high CPU on the Standby member of a ClusterXL. Refer to sk156333.

PRJ-3295,
PRHF-4301

CoreXL

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

PRJ-998,
PMTR-35350

CoreXL

In some scenarios, VPN connection's records remain in the Global connections table even after the connection expires. Refer to sk155332.

PRJ-2397

CoreXL

"fwmutlik_do_sequence_accounting_on_entry: bad dir" errors are mistakenly printed in dmesg output. Refer to sk158312.

PRJ-1299

SecureXL

In a rare scenario, multicast routing lookup may lead to SIM crash.

PRJ-631,
PRHF-5533

SecureXL

In some scenarios, latency is observed on the Security gateway. Refer to sk162914.

PRJ-1177,
PRJ-1176

SecureXL

Added sim module parameter "sim_anti_spoofing_enabled" to allow disable of anti-spoofing in Performance Pack without installing new Firewall policy.

PRJ-1642,
PRJ-3660,
PRHF-4350

SecureXL

In some scenarios, SecureXL drops the TCP traffic for the particular connection for invalid state reasons. Refer to sk147093.

PRJ-4622,
PMTR-40703,
PRJ-4621

SecureXL

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

PRJ-4735,
PRHF-3487,
PRJ-1223,
PRJ-1841

SecureXL

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

PRJ-2119,
PRJ-1848

SecureXL

In a rare scenario, Host destination entries are memory leaking when neighbor entry is incomplete state. Refer to sk157252.

PRJ-1218,
PMTR-37165

SecureXL

In some scenarios, multicast traffic is not forwarded across bridge interfaces.

PRJ-1252,
PRHF-3608

SecureXL

On cluster, Drop templates are disabled on reboot. Refer to sk153412.

PRJ-3658,
PMTR-39660,
PRJ-3596

SecureXL

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

PRJ-806,
PRHF-3498

SecureXL

In a rare scenario, a Policy Based Routing (PBR) does not work although configured.

PRJ-2323,
PRJ-5078,
PMTR-38429

Gaia OS

The restore backup operation fails if the machine was installed via ISO during the backup, and via CPUSE during the restore.

PRJ-1477,
PRJ-5115,
PMTR-37425

Gaia OS

Backup task may fail if SmartConsole is open during backup.

PRJ-3136,
GAIA-2861

Gaia OS

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

PRJ-3365,
PRJ-3361,
PRJ-3364

Gaia OS

'|' and '-' characters cannot be used in the message banner.

PRJ-3113,
PMTR-39534

Gaia OS

Added support for LOM (iDRAC) interfaces.

PRJ-1677

Gaia OS

Clish command "show system init-services" and Expert command "service --status-all" run "mdsstart" on the server.

GAIA-4695,
PRJ-615,
PRJ-4527

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.
Note: this issue is only cosmetic.

PRJ-1771,
GAIA-4793

Routing

The default OSPF instance binding is missing.

ROUT-484,
PRJ-4849,
PRJ-4850

Routing

In some scenarios, legitimate subnets of 0.0.0.0 (for example 0.0.0.0/1) cannot be configured for certain routing features, like static routes, PBR, routemaps, etc.

PRJ-4279,
PRJ-4266,
PRHF-5105

VSX

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

PRJ-4921,
PMTR-32931

VSX

In some scenarios, the fwk process may crash when VSX gateway is upgraded to R80.30.

PRJ-4956,
GAIA-6397,
PRJ-4950

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-1420,
PRJ-4740,
GAIA-5136

VPN

Improved the VPN connectivity for VSX and User-Space Firewall gateways.

PRJ-4740,
PRJ-1420

VPN

In some scenarios, VPN Encryption Domain Routes are not added to kernel via RIM in VSX environment. Refer to sk154692.

PRJ-1385,
GAIA-5338

VPN

In some scenarios with acceleration enabled, traffic through VR for a VPN setup does not pass.

PRJ-2348,
PMTR-38631

VPN

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

PMTR-38041,
PRJ-4153,
PRJ-4488

VPN

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