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Sophos UTM 9.5 - New Features for Sandstorm and WAF

Sophos UTM 9.5 - New Features for Sandstorm and WAF

19. MAY 2017

The new UTM 9.5 firmware has been available since 4 May 2017. While the SFOS for the XG Firewalls is currently receiving only bug fixes to improve stability, the latest UTM release also includes a number of new features.

The list of new features is relatively short, but still contains several interesting additions. Unfortunately, the frequently requested “Let’s Encrypt” integration is still missing; with any luck this will be included with v9.6.

Here is the list of new features:

  • WAF URL redirection
  • WAF configurable TLS version
  • WAF true file type detection
  • WAF templates
  • Sophos Sandstorm configuration of data centre
  • Sophos Sandstorm file exceptions
  • RESTful API to configure UTM
  • AWS CloudWatch Logs Agent
  • 64-bit PostgreSQL database
  • Email notification for expiring certificates
  • Support Access for SSH
  • SNMP monitoring of the file system

Various improvements to key functions

For anyone who would like more detail on the new features, the following sections expand on several of the items listed above.

Sophos Sandstorm

  • You can now select the data centre location manually, so you no longer have to rely on DNS-based location detection.
  • “Sandstorm activity reporting” has also been enhanced for email attachments.
  • You can now define exceptions for specific file types so that they are not sent to Sophos Sandstorm.

Web Application Firewall

  • With “WAF URL Redirection” you can redirect traffic from a WAF-protected URL to another backend system or a different URL.
  • “WAF protection” and “authentication policy templates” have been added for common Microsoft services to provide protection and authentication.
  • You can now configure the minimum TLS version to improve security.
  • “WAF Proxy Protocol” support allows the use of client IP information inside the ProxyProtocol header to make policy-based decisions and improve logging.
  • “True File Type Scanning” enables you to block uploads and downloads based on MIME type.

Management and reporting

  • Download all UTM logs in a single archive.
  • Support Access with SSH extends the existing Support Access function.
  • A 64-bit PostgreSQL database now generates reports with large data sets more quickly. The existing database is migrated.
  • You are now notified via WebAdmin and email 30 days before a certificate expires, giving you sufficient time to renew certificates.
  • You can now also configure Sophos UTM 9 via RESTful APIs.

Bug fixes

The list of resolved bugs is considerably longer:

  • NUTM-6646 [AWS] REST API panic when unlocking unlocked mutex
  • NUTM-6657 [AWS] Configure AWS profiles via WebAdmin
  • NUTM-6696 [AWS] Configure CloudWatch support via WebAdmin
  • NUTM-6708 [AWS] Cloud update not working with conversion deployments
  • NUTM-6814 [AWS] Rest API is accessible with default password if basic setup has not completed
  • NUTM-6887 [AWS] REST API panic when inserting into node which is not of type array
  • NUTM-7032 [AWS] SignalException not handled for SecurityGroupsManagement#update
  • NUTM-7055 [AWS] queen_configuration_management / aws_resource_management SIGUSR1 handling
  • NUTM-7056 [AWS] LocalJumpError
  • NUTM-7057 [AWS] aws_set_sd_check AWS::EC2::Errors::RequestLimitExceeded
  • NUTM-7061 [AWS] Connection refused - connect(2) for “localhost” port 4472
  • NUTM-3194 [Access & Identity] incorrect SSH logins trigger backend authentication requests
  • NUTM-3222 [Access & Identity] RED10/50: DNS port open on WAN interfaces
  • NUTM-3260 [Access & Identity] User Portal - IPsec Windows Support
  • NUTM-4149 [Access & Identity] [RED] Use Sophos NTP pool servers
  • NUTM-4323 [Access & Identity] NULL pointer deref in red_nl_cmd_tunnel_dump
  • NUTM-4705 [Access & Identity] Don’t use DNS server from the RED branch as an ISP forwarder
  • NUTM-4852 [Access & Identity] [RED] flock() on closed filehandle $fhi at /<var/confd/confd.plx>Object/itfhw/red_server.pm line 563.
  • NUTM-4994 [Access & Identity] STAS creates users even if automatic user creation is disabled
  • NUTM-5134 [Access & Identity] [OTP] User Portal should recommend Sophos Authenticator
  • NUTM-5925 [Access & Identity] [RED] prevent configuration for VLAN for Split modes
  • NUTM-6387 [Access & Identity] HTML5 VNC connection not disconnecting
  • NUTM-6641 [Access & Identity] [OTP] user can select algorithm for automatic tokens
  • NUTM-6668 [Access & Identity] [IPsec] L2TP/Cisco policy changes do not update ipsec.conf
  • NUTM-6749 [Access & Identity] RED15w does not send split DNS traffic over RED tunnel
  • NUTM-5965 [Basesystem] Sensors command on SG125w doesn’t show hardware fan RPM
  • NUTM-6468 [Basesystem] BIND security update (CVE-2016-9131, CVE-2016-9147, CVE-2016-9444)
  • NUTM-6718 [Basesystem] Update NTP to 4.2.8p9
  • NUTM-6846 [Basesystem] Linux kernel: ip6_gre: invalid reads in ip6gre_err() (CVE-2017-5897)
  • NUTM-6847 [Basesystem] BIND security update (CVE-2017-3135)
  • NUTM-6902 [Basesystem] Linux kernel: ipv4 keep skb->dst around in presence of IP options (CVE-2017-5970)
  • NUTM-7048 [Basesystem] Implement software workaround for Intel CPUs
  • NUTM-7067 [Basesystem] Update OpenSSH to openssh-6.6p1
  • NUTM-7370 [Basesystem] Bootsplash still shows 9.4 instead of 9.5
  • NUTM-7653 [Basesystem] Internal SSL certification verification broken
  • NUTM-5658 [Confd] Stripped restore unaccessible if default internal interface is removed
  • NUTM-3062 [Email] Mails from mail spool get quarantined because of “500 Max connection limit reached” in cssd
  • NUTM-4753 [Email] Support recipient verification with multiple AD servers
  • NUTM-5350 [Email] Per-user blacklist does not apply until SMTP service restarts
  • NUTM-5823 [Email] Scanner timeout or deadlock for all mails with a .scn attachment
  • NUTM-5892 [Email] SMTP Exception doesn’t allow ‘&’ sign within the email address
  • NUTM-6135 [Email] DLP custom expression doesn’t get triggered if the email body contains certain strings
  • NUTM-6355 [Email] Email not blocked with expression list
  • NUTM-4474 [Kernel] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
  • NUTM-6358 [Kernel] Kernel: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
  • NUTM-4969 [Network] Uplink does not recover from error state
  • NUTM-5314 [Network] 10 Gb SFP+ flexi module interface fails when under load
  • NUTM-5428 [Network] Bridge interface cannot acquire dynamic IPv6 address correctly. This interface repeatedly goes up and down.
  • NUTM-5831 [Network] Changing static IP on interface does not take effect immediately
  • NUTM-5861 [Network] IPv4 static address gets deleted from confd (and WebAdmin) once IPv6 on the same interface fails to obtain dynamic address
  • NUTM-6077 [Network] Static route on bridge interface disappears after rebooting the UTM
  • NUTM-6807 [Network] SSL VPN not being redistributed into OSPF
  • NUTM-6901 [Network] Eth0 is removed while configuring bridge interface
  • NUTM-2420 [WAF] Remove session management from basic authentication
  • NUTM-5603 [WAF] Issue with expired lifetime of WAF connections without any hint
  • NUTM-5628 [WAF] WAF - provide import and export options for HTTPS domain list
  • NUTM-5640 [WAF] GUI issue when adding wildcard certificate into Virtual Webservers
  • NUTM-6156 [WAF] UTM still fails scan for CVE-2016-2183 (SWEET32) after update to 9.408
  • NUTM-6294 [WAF] WAF - naming collisions for default profiles
  • NUTM-6522 [WebAdmin] SMC test failed after settings are applied
  • NUTM-6788 [WebAdmin] Add support for SG105W, SG135W and SG230 in WebAdmin
  • NUTM-7337 [WebAdmin] Fix appliance picture for SG105w N9
  • NUTM-6467 [Web] FTP connection fails when using transparent FTP Proxy
  • NUTM-6732 [Web] Certificate issue with transparent Web Proxy - “unable to get local issuer certificate”
  • NUTM-6876 [Web] Remove insecure RC4 from default cipher list for Web Protection HTTPS scanning on upgrade to 9.5 or restore of pre-9.5 backup
  • NUTM-7586 [Web] Chrome v58 and higher fail verification with HTTPS scanning enabled
  • NUTM-5638 [WiFi] RED15w - integrated AP isn’t shown as pending in transparent / split mode
  • NUTM-5786 [WiFi] RED15w - if more than one SSID is configured only one is working correctly
  • NUTM-6215 [WiFi] Issue when roaming between wireless with some clients
  • NUTM-6335 [WiFi] VLAN fallback not working for integrated AP from RED15w
  • NUTM-6448 [WiFi] AP55 stuck as inactive
  • NUTM-6511 [WiFi] AP does not get IP address on 100 Mbit Ethernet link

How do I get Sophos UTM 9.5?

The update is available free of charge to all UTM customers. If the update is not yet being displayed for you, you can still download it directly from the Sophos web server.

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