Category: Firewalls

End of life announcement: ASL 3.2

Notice Regarding Possible Discontinuance of Support: Astaro Security Linux V3.2 Customers should be aware that technical support and the Up2Date service for Astaro Security Linux V3.2 may be terminated on June 30, 2005. Sales of Astaro Security Linux V3.2 were discontinued at the end of June 2002, three years prior to this date

New Astaro Secure Client released

Astaro Secure Client for VPN Networks. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows organizations to use the Internet for communication with mobile employees and remote offices at a low cost while maintaining excellent security. The Astaro Secure Client ensures the highest levels of security for VPN. It provides strong user authentication and end-to-end encryption so that mobile workers, home workers, and remote offices can communicate securely over the Internet with a central VPN gateway.

Astaro Report Manager released

Astaro Report Manager is a security data collection and reporting tool that makes it easy to collect, correlate and analyze data from Astaro Security Linux and other security products. It collects and correlates data related to firewalls, network activities, attacks and intrusions, VPN usage, email, viruses, and web usage by employees. Data is presented in a wide variety of easy-to-understand tables, charts and graphs that can be viewed online, printed, and emailed.

[Middle] Up2Date 5.025

Urgency: Middle(low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 34MB (34,355,762 bytes) md5sum: beacad4d0cc04d29595720589ed968d0 Up2Date 5.025 Remarks Required previous version is 5.024 Existing configuration will not be changed Middleware will be restarted Active IP and VPN connections will be restarted Depending on the speed of the CPU the Up2Date installation will take a few minutes New/Changed/Improved Added support for Astaro Report Manager Bugfix   (please refer to the known issue list on http://docs.astaro.org ) ID1696 Internet Explorer can not open HA Livelog Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version. There are three ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system: Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date. An extra browser window will show the progress of the Up2Date process and the System Administrator will receive a notification email once the Up2Date process has finished successfully

[Middle] Up2Date 5.024

Urgency: Middle(low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 33MB (33,858,039 bytes) md5sum: 29c946e3c6ab0ef18c375b62e5565d44 Up2Date 5.024 Remarks Required previous version is 5.023 Existing configuration will not be changed Middleware will be restarted Active IP and VPN connections will be restarted Depending on the speed of the CPU the Up2Date installation will take a few minutes New/Changed/Improved Improved HTTP Proxy performance for persistent connections when using HTTP/1.1, transparent mode, user authentication Bugfixes (please refer to the known issue list on http://docs.astaro.org ) ID938 Middleware restarts when applying new Intrusion Protection pattern ID1092 USB keyboards not working ID1399 Selecting English (UK) during installation causes failure ID1673 Selfmonitor restarts POP3 Proxy very often ID1703 HTTP Proxy does not work with IE6 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version. There are three ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system: Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date. An extra browser window will show the progress of the Up2Date process and the System Administrator will receive a notification email once the Up2Date process has finished successfully

[Middle] Up2Date 5.023

Urgency: Middle(low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 23MB (23,672,123 bytes) md5sum: 76c1c10df79bfbe1e506f86b13c3250c Up2Date 5.023 Remarks Required previous version is 5.022 Existing configuration will not be changed Middleware will be restarted Active IP and VPN connections will be restarted Depending on the speed of the CPU the Up2Date installation will take a few minutes New/Changed/Improved Added NTLM authentication (Single Sign On with Active Directory) Added DNS hostname support to parent proxy for HTTP and Up2Date Improved HTTP Proxy performance when using authentication Bugfix (please refer to the known issue list on http://docs.astaro.org ) ID1463 Check for renaming Network Definitions is incomplete ID1482 Dead IPSec roadwarrior connections remain in system ID1491 Wrong formating in Proxy Content Manager ID1496 High Availability logs have wrong timestamp in WebAdmin ID1557 Uplink failover may not work correctly ID1564 HTTP uploads limited to 1 MB Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version.There are three ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system. Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date. An extra browser window will show the progress of the Up2Date process and the System Administrator will receive a notification email once the Up2Date process has finished successfully.

[Middle] Up2Date 5.022

Urgency: Middle(low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 4MB (4,028,520 bytes) md5sum: 19da5947cedb35fd3b2e9f9a58e60fc5 Up2Date 5.022 Remarks Required previous version is 5.021 Existing configuration will not be changed Middleware will not be restarted Active IP and VPN connections will not be restarted New/Changed/Improved Improved notification for license counting Bugfix  (please refer to the known issue list on http://docs.astaro.org ) ID1556 HTTPS / SSL vulnerable to DoS attack (CAN-2004-0748) Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version. There are three ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system: Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date

[High] Up2date 4.023

Urgency: HIGH (low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 1MB (760,396 bytes) md5sum: 60bec4f8e36a403fc39998b5e5d79270 Up2Date 4.023 Remarks Required previous version is 4.022 Existing configuration will not be changed Active VPN connections will be restarted Bugfixes ID1560 Apache DoS-able (CAN-2004-0748) ID1446 PKCS#7 DoS-able ID1304 X.509 certificate bug with PKCS#7 ID0869 Error in ASN.1 parser for X.509 certificates ID0747 Unresolved hostnames problems with PPTP and Radius Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version. There are three ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system: Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date. An extra browser window will show the progress of the Up2Date process and the System Administrator will receive a notification email once the Up2Date process has finished successfully

[Middle] Up2Date 5.021

Urgency: Middle(low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 3MB (3,590,211 bytes) md5sum: e18412da6ceff0dd82d02195cceefe45 Up2Date 5.021 Remarks Required previous version is 5.020 Existing configuration will not be changed Middleware will not be restarted Active IP and VPN connections will not be restarted Bugfix  (please refer to the known issue list on http://docs.astaro.org ) ID1532 Notifications about exceeding 100% user count ID1533 IPS Pattern update fails with valid license Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version. There are three ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system: Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date. An extra browser window will show the progress of the Up2Date process and the System Administrator will receive a notification email once the Up2Date process has finished successfully

[Middle] Up2date 5.020

Urgency: Middle(low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 16MB (16,043,972 bytes) md5sum: ba0544e200970742006c863ce3d2875c Up2Date 5.020 Remarks Required previous version is 5.019 Existing configuration will not be changed Middleware will be restarted Active IP and VPN connections will be restarted Depending on the speed of the CPU the Up2Date installation will take a few minutes New/Changed/Improved Improved IP counting and handling Improved notification scheme for license features Bugfix   (please refer to the known issue list on http://docs.astaro.org ) Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version. There are three ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system: Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date