Ingate patches holes in firewall firmware
Ingate has released a firmware update (to version 4.7.1) for its firewall and SIParator products, which includes several major fixes. These include issues such as crafted packets provoking system crashes and ways to bypass certain security features.
Since mid-2008 a number of known errors have existed in SNMPv3 protocol authentication, which according to the release notes are now fixed. The update also contains many enhancements and Ingate recommends that all users upgrade to the new release.
See also:
- Release notice for Ingate Firewall 471 and Ingate SIParator 471, release notes from Ingate
- Critical error in SNMPv3 implementations from a number of vendors, a report from The H
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