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8.1.7.5-8.1.3.43-2.11.7 XC-Cluster Release Notes
Network Security Platform 8.1
Revision A
Contents
About this release
New features
Enhancements
Resolved issues
Installation instructions
Known issues
Product documentation
About this release
This document contains important information about the current release. We strongly recommend that
you read the entire document.
This maintenance release of Network Security Platform is to provide few enhancements and fixes on
the Sensor software.
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Network Security Manager software version: 8.1.7.5
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Signature Set: 8.6.28.4
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M-8000XC Sensor software version: 8.1.3.43
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XC-240 Load Balancer software version: 2.11.7
Network Security Platform version 8.1 replaces 8.0 release. If you are using version 8.0 and require any
fixes, note that the fixes will be provided in version 8.1. There will not be any new maintenance
releases and hot-fix releases on version 8.0.
With release 8.1, Network Security Platform no longer supports the Network Access Control module and
N-series Sensors. If you are using Network Access Control with N-series (NAC-only) Sensors, McAfee
recommends that you continue to use the 7.1.3.6 version. If you are using the Network Access Control
module in M-series Sensors, continue to use the 7.5.3.30 version. That is, you should not upgrade the
Manager or the Sensors to 8.1 for such cases.
Manager software version 7.5 and above are not supported on McAfee-built Dell‑based Manager
Appliances.
This version of 8.1 Manager software can be used to configure and manage the following hardware:
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7.1, 7.5 and 8.1 M‑series and Mxx30-series Sensors
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8.1 Virtual IPS Sensors
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7.1 and 8.1 NS-series Sensors
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7.1, 7.5 and 8.1 XC Cluster Appliances
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7.1, 7.5 and 8.1 NTBA Appliance software (Physical and Virtual)
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7.1 I-series Sensors
Currently port 4167 is used as the UDP source port number for the SNMP command channel
communication between Manager and Sensors. This is to prevent opening up all UDP ports for inbound
connectivity from SNMP ports on the sensor. Older JRE versions allowed the Manager to bind to the
same source port 4167 for both IPv4 and IPv6 communication. But with the latest JRE version
1.7.0_45, it is no longer possible to do so, and the Manager uses port 4166 as the UDP source port to
bind for IPv6.
Manager 8.1 uses JRE version 1.7.0_51. If you have IPv6 Sensors behind a firewall, you need to
update your firewall rules accordingly such that port 4166 is open for the SNMP command channel to
function between those IPv6 Sensors and the Manager.
New features
This release is to provide few bug fixes for some of the previously known Sensor software issues, and
does not include any new feature.
Enhancements
This release of Network Security Platform includes the following enhancements:
L3/L4 error count enhancement
Previously, the error count for L3/L4 errors in a SPAN port could not be viewed even when the errors
sometimes crossed the specified threshold limit. With this maintenance release, a new counter,
getL3L4errorDropCount in the debug command show all datapath error-counters, provides the
error count for the L3/L4 errors.
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SNMP OID enhancement
With this release, certain system parameters like the free memory, cache memory and buffer memory
are monitored. The following SNMP OIDs are supported with regard to system monitoring:
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Control Path System Free Memory
1.3.6.1.4.1.8962.2.1.3.1.4.1.1.1.1
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Control Path System Cached Memory
1.3.6.1.4.1.8962.2.1.3.1.4.1.1.2.1
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Control Path System Buffer Memory
1.3.6.1.4.1.8962.2.1.3.1.4.1.1.3.1
Syn cookie and rate limiting enhancement
The M8000XC previously did not support syn cookies and rate limiting features. With this maintenance
release, the M8000XC supports syn flood detection and blocking request feature. The rate limiting
policy is also supported with this release.
Resolved issues
These issues are resolved in this release of the product. For a list of issues fixed in earlier releases,
see the Release Notes for the specific release.
Resolved Manager software issues
The following table lists the medium-severity Manager software issues:
ID #
Issue Description
964765 The Manager using Apache Struts is vulnerable to CVE-2014-0094.
964715 The Botnet DAT update fails on multiple Sensors.
962218 The effective time for Firewall and QoS policies is based on the local time zone of the
corresponding Sensor.
960959 The SNMP server setting configuration is not displayed after saving due to incorrect
redirection.
960656 SNMP alert notification fails sometimes due to incorrect calculation of the Manager uptime.
959996 The Manager sends wrong port speed value to the Sensor while configuring monitoring port
with SFP+.
959807 Alert filter in the Real-Time Threat Analyzer shows alerts from unknown country, irrespective
of the source and destination countries selected.
959410 The Manager raises an "INFO" alert for malicious files before the files are sent to ATD for
analysis, and "HIGH" alert after the files are confirmed to be malicious by ATD. Both alerts
are generated with an "Acknowledged" flag. The "Acknowledged" flag remains the same
irrespective of the severity of the alert which makes it difficult to differentiate the alerts
generated.
959221 The Real-Time Threat Analyzer shows an error for multicast host IPv4 addresses while
creating a new exception object.
957285 The Protection Profile page stops responding when opened in Chrome browser and
eventually leads to Java crashing.
956340 The Manager fault for exceeding the 10,000 AD user groups limit is displayed incorrectly in
the Manager.
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ID #
Issue Description
954516 The scheduled configuration backup cannot be restored completely due to inclusion of all the
tables during backup.
953875 The password control settings displays the wrong error message "minimum number of
Characters should be between 1 and 20".
952088 The Real-Time Threat Analyzer triggers attack by the host even after creating an exception
object.
951549 The Manager's connection with XC-240 load balancer is not recovered if the link is down for
more than 9 minutes.
950005 When "Layer 7" data is selected to be included in the Next Generation report for alert data,
the report is generated for dates not included in the report schedule.
949576 Incorrect pop-up message is displayed when the SSL flow count entered is more than the
maximum allowed limit.
949202 Scripts for alert notification does not execute if the attack-severity variable
($ATTACK_SEVERITY$) is used.
947428 The Fault Log report generates events for template Sensors of XC Cluster but no other
Cluster members.
946781 The Chrome browser crashes when the Manager is opened in Windows 8.0 mode.
The following table lists the low-severity Manager software issues:
ID #
Issue Description
962714
Malware archive fault message is misleading.
Resolved Sensor software issues
The following table lists the medium-severity Sensor software issues:
ID #
Issue Description
1012154 In rare scenarios, the Sensor either goes to layer2 or reboots when new configuration
updates are deployed to the Sensor.
1007014 When the Sensor experiences abnormal reboot, or in a failover configuration if one of the
Sensor reboots, then the front end processor gets stuck in rare scenarios.
1005048 The SNMP Get/Walk executed on the Sensor returns the SCP file server credentials.
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992436
Firewall policy does not block some HTTPS applications.
982750
In a rare case scenario, there is traffic delay shortly after a signature or configuration
update to the Sensor.
981250
Filename is missing in Malware Details section of alert details for GTI and ATD.
979110
When quarantine is enabled in the connection limiting policy, the first quarantined host is
not released after the specified release time.
978286
ARP packets (matching the MAC flip flop event) are dropped which leads to network outage
in rare scenarios. This happens when MAC flip flop attack is disabled and “Heuristic Web
Application Server Protection(WASP)” is enabled on any interface of the Sensor.
977449
After a Sensor name change, the $IV_SENSOR_NAME$ flag is not updated until Sensor
reboot.
973547
In rare scenario, when SSL decryption is enabled, the “show sensor-load” displays
incorrect value of Sensor load.
973385
In rare scenario, the Sensor reboots due to memory corruption in the malware detection
process.
970872
When the PDF emulator engine is configured for malware detection, the Sensor reboots in
certain scenarios.
ID #
Issue Description
969760
The GTI queries fail during DNS resolution when the Sensor processes CNAME instead of A
record of the proxy server.
969563
Layer 7 data are missing for alerts generated by ATD.
968947
The Sensor throughput value is displayed as 9GB for 1GB ports in the Manager.
966281
In rare scenarios, routers running EIGRP experience neighbor adjacency flap while the
Sensor processes the EIGRP update packets.
965633
In rare scenarios, malware detection misses can happen while processing SMTP traffic.
963593
In rare scenarios, when malware policy is applied on the Sensor, the Sensor can suddenly
reboot due to low memory resources.
961617
[Failover] In rare scenarios, the Sensor reboots during trace upload.
961429
In a rare scenario, the Sensor reboots with exception when snort signatures are present.
957346
Customizing the Flow Packet logging on the Manager causes excessive packet logging from
the Sensor to the Manager. This leads to database tuning failure, alert archival failure etc.
957173
The Sensor causes RST packets to be sent out of order.
945675
In extremely rare scenario, the traffic is not forwarded because of internal switch buffer
exhaustion.
943598
In rare scenario with SSL and malware functionality enabled, the SSL attacks are not
detected.
941194
During signature set update, the “HTTP: Attempt to read password file” attack may go
undetected for a very short time.
923295
The Sensor incorrectly raises the "HTTP: Web Application Server Attack Detected" alert
occasionally, when a user edits or submits information in the internal web application.
908386
On rare occasions, the Application Visualization feature can cause database connectivity
fault with the "sumBandwidth" error.
907976
In a failover pair after upgrade, the Active Fail-Open kit status switches between "Inline"
and "Bypass".
Resolved XC-240 software issues
The following table lists the medium-severity XC-240 software issues:
ID #
Issue Description
876784 Management port will not be linked up when the Auto-negotiation feature is disabled.
876783 In case of XC-240 HA, synchronization might not happen for dynamic spare port.
876778 IPv6 address is not persisted on Management port with XC-240 reboot.
876775 Help required for commands.
876765 Changes to the CLI commands in XC-240.
876764 8-bit fragmented packets with VLAN header were being dropped by the Sensor.
876762 On rare occasions, the Manager might show incorrect link information when LBG is modified.
876760 Breaking and forming HA of XC-240 might result in HA not coming up.
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Installation instructions
Manager server/client system requirements
The following table lists the 8.1 Manager server requirements:
Operating
system
Minimum required
Recommended
Any of the following:
Same as the minimum
required.
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise Edition,
SP1 (Full Installation), English operating system
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise Edition,
SP1 (Full Installation), Japanese operating system
• Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition (Server with a GUI)
English operating system
• Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition (Server with a GUI)
Japanese operating system
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition (Server with a
GUI) English operating system
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition (Server with a
GUI) Japanese operating system
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition (Server with a
GUI) English operating system
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition (Server with a
GUI) Japanese operating system
Only X64 architecture is supported.
Memory
8 GB
8 GB or more
CPU
Server model processor such as Intel Xeon
Same
Disk space
100 GB
300 GB or more
Network
100 Mbps card
1000 Mbps card
Monitor
32-bit color, 1440 x 900 display setting
1440 x 900 (or above)
The following are the system requirements for hosting Central Manager/Manager server on a VMware
platform.
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Table 5-1 Virtual machine requirements
Component
Minimum
Recommended
Operating
system
Any of the following:
Same as minimum
required.
• Windows Server 2008 R2 – Standard or Enterprise
Edition with SP1 English operating system
• Windows Server 2008 R2 – Standard or Enterprise
Edition with SP1 Japanese operating system
• Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition (Server with a
GUI) English operating system
• Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition (Server with a
GUI) Japanese operating system
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition (Server with
a GUI) English operating system
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition (Server with
a GUI) Japanese operating system
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition (Server
with a GUI) English operating system
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (Server with a
GUI) Japanese operating system
Only X64 architecture is supported.
Memory
8 GB
8 GB or more
Virtual CPUs
2
2 or more
Disk Space
100 GB
300 GB or more
Table 5-2 VMware ESX server requirements
Component
Minimum
Virtualization software • ESXi 5.0
• ESXi 5.1
• ESXi 5.5
CPU
Intel Xeon ® CPU ES 5335 @ 2.00 GHz; Physical Processors – 2; Logical
Processors – 8; Processor Speed – 2.00 GHz
Memory
Physical Memory: 16 GB
Internal Disks
1 TB
The following table lists the 8.1 Manager client requirements when using Windows 7 or Windows 8:
Minimum
Operating
system
Recommended
• Windows 7 English or Japanese
• Windows 8 English or Japanese
• Windows 8.1 English or Japanese
The display language of the Manager client must be
same as that of the Manager server operating
system.
RAM
2 GB
4 GB
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Minimum
Recommended
CPU
1.5 GHz processor
1.5 GHz or faster
Browser
• Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11
• Internet Explorer 11
• Mozilla Firefox
• Mozilla Firefox 20.0 or
above
• Google Chrome (App mode in Windows 8 is not
supported)
• Google Chrome 24.0 or
above
If you are using Google Chrome, add the Manager
certificate to the trusted certificate list.
For the Manager client, in addition to Windows 7 and Windows 8, you can also use the operating
systems mentioned for the Manager server.
The following table lists the 8.1 Central Manager / Manager client requirements when using Mac:
Mac operating system
Browser
• Lion
Safari 6 or 7
• Mountain Lion
For more information, see McAfee Network Security Platform Installation Guide.
Upgrade recommendations
McAfee regularly releases updated versions of the signature set. Note that automatic signature set
upgrade does not happen. You need to manually import the latest signature set and apply it to your
Sensors.
The following is the upgrade matrix supported for this release:
Component
Minimum Software Version
Manager/Central Manager software
• 7.1 — 7.1.3.5, 7.1.5.7, 7.1.5.10, 7.1.5.14, 7.1.5.15
• 7.5 — 7.5.3.11, 7.5.5.6, 7.5.5.7, 7.5.5.10
• 8.1 — 8.1.3.4
M-8000XC Sensor software
• 7.1 — 7.1.3.6, 7.1.3.51, 7.1.3.88, 7.1.3.106, 7.1.3.119
• 7.5 — 7.5.3.16, 7.5.3.30, 7.5.3.95, 7.5.3.108
• 8.1 — 8.1.3.5
XC-240
• 2.9.2
• 2.9.4
Known issues
For a list of known issues in this product release, see this McAfee KnowledgeBase article:
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Manager software issues: KB81373
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XC-Cluster Sensor software issues: KB81377
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