pfSense 2.4.1 Security und Bugfix Update veröffentlicht

Kurz nach dem großen Update auf 2.4.0 der Open-Source Firewall, pfSense, wurde nun das Security und Bugfix Release 2.4.1 mit vielen Änderungen und Fehlerkorrekturen veröffentlicht.

pfSense 2.4.1 Release Notes

Security / Errata

• Fixes for the set of WPA2 Key Reinstallation Attack issues commonly known as KRACK #7951
• Changed upgrade handling to use the pkg-static binary to prevent errors when moving to new major FreeBSD version
• Fixed a VT console race condition panic at boot on VMware platforms (especially ESXi 6.5.0U1) #7925
• Fixed a bsnmpd problem that causes it to use all available CPU and RAM with the hostres module in cases where disk drives are present without media inserted #6882
• Fixed an upgrade problem due to FreeBSD 11 removing legacy ada aliases, which caused some older installs to fail when mounting root post-upgrade #7937
• Changed the boot-time fsck process the ensure the disk is mounted read-only before running fsck in the preen mode.

Known Issues

• The VLAN changes mentioned in the Interfaces section may prevent PPP sessions from working on VLANs in some cases, see #7981

Interfaces

• Changed the VLAN interface names to use the ‘dotted’ format of FreeBSD, which is shorter and helps to keep the interface name smaller than the limit (16) This fixes the 4 digit VLAN issues when the NIC name is 6 bytes long.
• Improved the ‘Assign Interfaces’ console process to automatically stop when there are no more interfaces to assign
• Improved the ‘Set interface IP address’ console process to accept ‘IP/mask’ notation
• Fixed wireless client interfaces so they do not reconfigure wireless on a link up event, or else they can get stuck in a loop #7960
• Fixed setting VLAN Priority in VLAN interface configuration #7748

Dashboard

• Fixed a problem with the Picture Dashboard widget when it does not have a picture defined #7896
• Fixed time display for UTC in the NTP Dashboard Widget #7714
• Fixed an IPsec widget error when it would get back null data after a session ended #6318
• Improved error checking to prevent dashboard widget parsing errors

DNS

• Added an option for the DNS Resolver (Unbound) to serve expired records from the cache after their TTL expires which can improve speed in some cases #7814
• Fixed the DNS Resolver (Unbound) to allow snoop from localhost by default, otherwise “dig +trace” or “drill -T” queries from the firewall itself fail #7884

XMLRPC

• Fixed XMLRPC Sync to prevent a lock that would never be unlocked
• Fixed XMLRPC sync to ensure a proper empty array is returned instead of NULL, so that the last item of a section can be removed without error #7953

Misc

• Fixed Captive Portal voucher test and expire pages #7939
• Added UEFI 32 and UEFI 64 filenames defined inside a pool to dhcpd.conf #7949
• Fixed operation of the “Reset All States on WAN IP Change” GUI setting #7921
• Changed OpenVPN to retry client auth when it fails by default (auth-retry nointeract) #7506
• Changed the Cryptographic Accelerator module options to allow both the AES-NI and Crypto modules to be loaded at the same time #7810
• Added URL fingerprinting to the login page CSS
• Added the device serial/id to the console and SSH menu banner #7968
• Fixed “Unknown Step Values” in certain RRD graph cases #6860