R81 Jumbo Hotfix Take 25

 

List of Resolved Issues and New Features

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

ID

Product

Description

Take 25

Released on 08 April 2021

PRJ-21007,
PRHF-14969

Security Management

NEW: Improved FWM process performance during Security policy or database installation.

PRJ-22314,
PRJ-22315

Security Management

NEW: Performance improvement of Management High Availability Full Sync.

PRJ-18428,
PMTR-61041

Security Management

UPDATE: In High Availability environment, Assign and Reassign Global Policy actions are not supported for a Domain if the active Domain Server for this Domain is a Security Management device. The assignment will be performed after change-over to the primary Domain Server.

PRJ-21873,
ODU-82

Security Management

UPDATE: Added Update 8 of Autonomous Threat Prevention Management (ATPM). Refer to sk167109.

PRJ-21239,
PMTR-62918

Security Management

In some scenarios, the log file of PostgreSQL (postgres.elg) may become very large.

PRJ-23500,
PMTR-66213

Security Management

In some scenarios, verification errors regarding conflict of rules may be missing if the policy installation is accelerated and the target is a cluster.

PRJ-20805,
PRHF-14691

Security Management

In some scenarios, delete partial domain with createDomainRecovery.sh script fails when there are several RadiusGroup objects with the same name in different domains.

PRJ-21704,
PMTR-64423

Security Management

In large environments with High Availability, synchronization and upgrade may fail due to very large database size.

PRJ-22519,
PMTR-64104

Security Management

Policy Installation may fail with "Error code: 0-2-2000245" message when using IPv6.

PRJ-20128,
PMTR-62503

Security Management

Data Center objects defined in NAT and HTTPS Inspection rulebases may not be enforced correctly after policy installation that was accelerated.

PRJ-21417,
PRJ-20995

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the initiation of the Management server may take a long time.

PRJ-20305,
PRHF-14634

Security Management

In some scenarios, deleting a Domain Server may fail with "Got at least one duplicate UID in requested list" error.

PRJ-21360,
PRHF-14606

Security Management

In some scenarios, the Purge Revisions task may stop and show 0% for hours or fail with the "An error has occurred while performing revision purge operation" message in SmartConsole.

PRJ-17790,
PRHF-13382

Security Management

In some scenarios, policy verification for static NAT rules succeeds even though the source subnet NAT is bigger than the destination subnet NAT.

PRJ-20888,
PRHF-14946

Security Management

In some scenarios, when connecting to an existing session in SmartConsole from a different IP address, a wrong "Client IP" is shown in Audit Logs view.

PRJ-21587,
PRHF-15222

Security Management

In rare cases, the CPM Solr process may not be stopped when running cpstop or mdsstop.

PRJ-20766,
PRHF-14399

Security Management

High load may occur on the Management Server when searching for a prefix of IP address that has more than 10 thousand matches.

PRJ-21185,
PMTR-63358

Security Management

In rare scenarios, logout from a session fails with "An internal error has occurred" message.

PRJ-19720,
PMTR-62272

Multi-Domain Management

The Multi-Domain session APIs "view sessions" and "show last-published-session" results may include sessions that were not filtered according to the administrator's permissions profile.

  • A Domain manager running the API will be notified when the results will be filtered and will be asked to run the command again with the "ignore-warnings" flag

PRJ-21913,
PMTR-64572

Multi-Domain Management

In some scenarios, installation of Jumbo Hotfix on Multi-Domain Server may fail after running restore from backup.

PRJ-21081,
SMCUPG-1625

Multi-Domain Management

In some scenarios, HA Full Sync on the System Domain fails after upgrade on a Multi-Site environment with multiple Multi-Domain Servers. Refer to sk171059.

PRJ-21344,
PRJ-16910

Multi-Domain Management

When running many Reassign Global Domain operations for Domains that are not active on the current Multi-Domain Server, the load on the Server may increase and result in slowness of user and automation work.

PRJ-20952,
PMTR-62383

SmartConsole

After a network interface is removed by cluster API, a network group assigned to that interface remains as used by cluster members and cannot be deleted.

PRJ-21627,
PMTR-55104

SmartConsole

In Multi-Domain environment with High Availability using Security Management Server, if the Security Management is the active peer for a Domain assigned to the Global Domain, the Policy Package creation may fail.

PRJ-20241,
PRHF-14533

SmartConsole

When there are no search results, search in Access Control Policy displays "An error occurred while searching" instead of "No Items Found".

PRJ-19932,
PRHF-14278

SmartConsole

In rare scenarios, the "Show Policy Package" tool and some Management API commands with "details-level full" may fail when UTM cluster is part of the policy targets.

PRJ-20316,
PRHF-14637

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, the "show gateways-and-servers" Management API command fails when running it with "details-level full" and when connected to the Global Domain. Refer to sk170895.

PRJ-19142,
PRHF-14010

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, the "add-user" API command with authentication method TACACS+ or Radius server fails with "object not found" message. Refer to sk170325.

PRJ-18923,
PRHF-13879

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, the "show-access-rulebase" Management API command fails when running it with details-level "full" and there is a network group with more than 50000 objects on one of the rules. Refer to sk170435.

PRJ-21160,
PMTR-63555

SmartConsole

If there is an HTTPS Inspection layer that is not used in the policy, policy installation may fail with the "Internal error" message.

PRJ-21624,
PRHF-15156

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, FWM process logs show Provisioning/LSM activity even though LSM is not in use. Refer to sk171905.

PRJ-21390,
PMTR-63149

SmartConsole

Slowness may be observed in some SmartProvisioning operations (like open SmartProvisioning GUI, create a new LSM object, open an LSM object editor, etc.).

PRJ-22223,
PMTR-32568

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, a validation warning may appear on an updatable object with the following message: "Object is no longer supported. Enforcing security for this object is not possible." However, the object is still available in the updatable objects picker.

PRJ-22050,
PMTR-62337

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, the Hit count information in the Access Policy rulebase is not shown correctly.

PRJ-20776,
PRHF-13197

Compliance

In some scenarios, an incorrect Compliance status for Gaia OS Best Practices is displayed.

PRJ-19303,
PRHF-11595

Compliance

Compliance Blade may not scan inline layers for Application Control and URL Filtering best practices.

PRJ-22825,
PRHF-15936

Logging

NEW: Log Server now supports up to 4 billion logs per day in Index mode (previously it stopped indexing with a limit of 2 billion logs).

PRJ-21380,
PMTR-63927

Logging

In some scenarios, in Multi-Domain servers with many domains, the Solr process for logs may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-19011,
PRHF-13936

Logging

In a rare scenario, CPD process may use a random port for AMON communication instead of port 18196.

PRJ-24068,
PMTR-66159

Logging

In Smart-1 6000-L and 6000-XL, drill down to a log card from the Logs view does not bring results.

PRJ-20587,
VPNRA-642

Mobile Access

Removed potential XSS vulnerability in the MAB Login page.

PRJ-21112,
PRHF-14953

Security Gateway

Authentication may fail when LDAP branch name contains "\".

PRJ-18980,
PRHF-13153

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, PPTP or GRE traffic may be dropped. Refer to sk170293.

PRJ-19801,
PMTR-60336

Security Gateway

Improved the policy enforcement of the ZIP archive inner files.

PRJ-21613,
PRHF-14715

Security Gateway

Security Gateway may crash when "Categorize HTTPS Websites" feature is enabled and categorization mode is set to "Hold".

PRJ-20341,
PRHF-14616

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, passive FTP packets may be dropped.

PRJ-21200,
PMTR-63550

Security Gateway

The VMCore file may be created during reboot after the upgrade procedure.

PRJ-22082,
PMTR-64650

Internal CA

In a rare scenario, "This operation is not supported on STANDBY members" message is displayed and the cpca_client process unexpectedly exits when trying to renew a certificate on a standby Domain.

PRJ-21727,
PMTR-64420

Content Awareness

In a rare scenario, Security Gateway may crash when CPcode is running within Content Awareness or parser flow.

PRJ-20848,
PRHF-14347

Identity Awareness

In some scenarios, running pdpd commands results in "daemon did not respond or not running!" error. Refer to sk171136.

PRJ-22016,
IDA-3194

Identity Awareness

Added optimization for PDP when handling Terminal servers Multi-User Host Agent (MUH).

PRJ-20349,
PRHF-14266

IPS

In rare scenario, the SmartConsole shows the "IPS is not responding" message even though IPS is functioning normally.

PRJ-17883,
PMTR-59113

Anti-Virus

UPDATE: Improved Anti-Virus buffer allocation to reduce stack size.

PRJ-20839,
PRHF-14744

DLP

Improved DLP scanning for POST request to some Web sites.

PRJ-21711,
PMTR-64263,
PRJ-21991,
PMTR-64780

SSL Inspection

In rare scenarios, a memory leak may occur in a crypto module.

PRJ-20977,
PRHF-14820

Anti-Malware

In rare scenarios, the Threat Prevention policy installation fails due to IoC parsing errors. Refer to sk171316.

PRJ-18958,
PRHF-13881

ClusterXL

When MDPS is configured, the output of "cphaprob syncstat" may show unreadable characters for the speed of the sync interface.

PRJ-19665,
PRHF-13929

SecureXL

In some scenarios, connections are dropped when SYN Defender and ISN Defender are both enabled on the same interface.

PRJ-20547,
PRHF-14680

SecureXL

Security Gateway may crash when there are interfaces that do not need the ARP resolution (VTI).

PRJ-18663

Routing

UPDATE: Added support for Check Point Active Streaming (CPAS), Policy-Based Routing (PBR), and Application-Based Routing (ABR) on the Security Gateway. Refer to sk167135.

PRJ-22489

Gaia OS

NEW: Added support for Smart-1 6000-L/XL appliances. Refer to sk171903.

PRJ-23358,
PMTR-65962,
PRJ-24397,
PMTR-67460

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Upgraded OpenSSL to 1.1.1k to fix CVE-2021-3449 and add the latest security improvements. Refer to sk172983.

PRJ-20733,
PMTR-63201

Gaia OS

CVE-2020-25705: ICMP reply rate.

PRJ-21721

Gaia OS

The "show configuration" command cannot print Gaia user with spaces in name.

PRJ-21827,
PRHF-12751

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, the "rhost" value may be missing from logs when the user tries to access the WebUI.

PRJ-18852,
PRHF-13802

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, the "show arp dynamic all" command displays values of VS0 instead of VS.

PRJ-20286,
PRHF-13475

Gaia OS

Messages log level in /var/log/messages file for ERR level was changed to INFO level when fetching proxy configuration from Clish/WebUI/Gaia API.
Example: [DATE TIME] <daemon.err> ... xpand[25958]: proxy_live_get_proc: Started...

PRJ-19975,
PMTR-62104

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, bond interface bandwidth monitored via SNMP is missing.

PRJ-17684,
PMTR-60173

Gaia OS

When upgrading with enabled Management Data Plane Separation (MDPS), an additional reboot may be required.

PRJ-18941,
PRHF-13812

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, the "... fwldbcast_handle_retrans_request: Updated bchosts_mask to 1" message may be printed in /var/log/messages file.

PRJ-21667,
PRHF-15328

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, policy installation on a Check Point Gateway in Azure causes the Gateway to crash and load a default policy. Refer to sk171553.

PRJ-21261,
VSX-2520

VSX

Allow the addition of routes with specific group of type "Group with Exclusion" when using VSX Provisioning tool.

PRJ-20965,
VSX-2519

VSX

After running "vsx_util vsls" and selecting option #6, the operation may fail with the "Internal Error: got empty reply set" error. Refer to sk171352.

PRJ-13302,
PMTR-63247

VPN

NEW: Added 3 new views to SmartView for Remote Access, providing visibility for Remote Access users, users login summary, failed login attempts, used clients, top login options, number of users, operating systems, authentication methods and login activity.

PRJ-17616,
PMTR-57245

VPN

UPDATE: Added:

  • VPN Remote Access StrongSwan IKEv2 client logs.
  • Key install logs with StrongSwan IKEv2 client improvement to show the correct authentication method.
  • RAsession_util with StrongSwan IKEv2 client improvement.

PRJ-19217,
PRHF-13685

VPN

Site to Site VPN fails to establish with IKEv2 on GCP when NAT-t is enabled.

PRJ-21544,
PMTR-64128

VPN

Added VPN Remote Access stability improvement.

PRJ-22219,
PRHF-15006

VPN

When static NAT is configured on a destination, the SCV may fail to access the internal resources and "No scv status from client..." drops appear in SmartConsole. Refer to sk171550.

PRJ-19905,
PRHF-14090

VPN

Mobile Access SNX may fail to connect to the Security gateway when the realm used by the client is different for the SSL VPN realm.

PRJ-21235,
EPS-30018

Endpoint Security

NEW: Added Application Control and Developer Protection support in Endpoint Web Management.

PRJ-21750,
PMTR-60418

Endpoint Security

On the SmartEndpoint Reporting page, the "Endpoint Connectivity" report that is filtered by a virtual group returns an empty list.

PRJ-21915,
PMTR-50113

Endpoint Security

In some scenarios, the "Endpoint Security Client Version" report shows "N/A" in DAT Date column for all devices on the SmartEndpoint Reporting page.

PRJ-21106,
PMTR-62363

Endpoint Security

Adding devices to virtual group using the epmcommands tool may fail.

PRJ-19313,
PRHF-13909

CloudGuard Network

When creating a GCP Data Center, Test Connection may fail on large GCP accounts.

PRJ-23944,
PMTR-66384

Maestro VSX

"dxl stat" and "dxl calc" commands may fail on non-VS0 context with the "failed to retrieve dxl information" error.