ESET Linux Server Security

ESET File-, Mail- und Gateway-Security für Linux

Version 3.0.20* (03. September 2010)

•   Added uni-licence support – business package readiness
•   Fixed memory leaks
•   Fixed tempfile handling after disk fulfillment
•   Fixed PCUs inclusion in mirror
•   Fixed problems with not opening in-product help entries
•   Fixed problems with ESET Remote Administrator connection & cooperation problems

* version 3.0.19 was skipped due to continuous testing & bug fixing

Version 3.0.18 (12.. Mai 2010)

• esets_daemon: fixed problem of samples sent using RA server
• esets_daemon: fixed ownership settings for mirror directory
• esets_daemon: obsolete parameters parser
• esets_dac (EFS): support for Dazuko FS
• esets_smtp (EMS): support for Solaris Zones
• esets_smtp (EMS): BDAT command handling
• esets_http (EGS): support of URL based detection
• esets_http (EGS): fixed HTTPS communication with Internet Explorer
• esets_http (EGS): fixed communication with HTTP 1.0 servers
• fixed installation on OS Solaris
• fixed anti-spam on OS Solaris

*  versions 3.0.16 & 3.0.17 were skipped due to continuous testing and bugfixing

3.0.15 (26. Mai 2009)

• fixed some RTP archives unpacking
• fixed notification scripts for FreeBSD
• updated manual pages
• esets_dac(EFS): fixed deadlock on FreeBSD

3.0.14 (04. Mai 2009)

• fixed RA client password login to RA server
• fixed license loading in Turkish locale
• fixed memory leak in ThreatSense.NET.
• esets_wwwi: enhanced statistics
• esets_smfi (EMS): using also server's Received header for spam recognition
• esets_http (EGS): URL whitelist

3.0.13 (30. März 2009)

• esets_http (EGS): fixed premature interrupt of connections

3.0.12 (27. Februar 2009)

• http server for modules local mirror
• changed default of av_clean_mode from rigorous to standard
• esets_daemon: changed settings for ThreatSense.NET
• esets_imap (EMS): corrected performance with Mozilla Thunderbird
• esets_http (EGS): fixed threat log in virus notification e-mail
• esets_http, esets_icap (EGS): optimized URL blocking cache

3.0.11 (27. Januar 2009)

• support for FreeBSD 7
• added system dependencies into 64-bit rpm packages
• fixed listing of network interfaces with unknown addresses
• esets_daemon: fixed license issue for EAV BE
• esets_daemon: continuing even after failed first-time anti-spam modules update
• esets_daemon: fixed startup with only expired licenses
• esets_cgp (EMS): CommunigatePro filter
• esets_scan (EFS): supported ADS scanning
• esets_scan (EFS): activity indicator for pipe/file output
• esets_icap, esets_http (EGS): fixed URL blocking cache
• esets_ssfi (EGS): added man page
• esets_wwwi: quarantine support
• esets_wwwi: updated php to 5.2.8
• esets_quar: fixed samples sending and listing, new option: --list-fmt
• esets_quar: supported separate quarantine for all users
• esets_inst: enhanced compatibility with qmail

3.0.10

• revisited products documentation
• esets_daemon: fixed memory leak

3.0.9

• fixed definition of groups of modules for mirror
• esets_daemon: corrected algorithm for loading of the new modules
• esets_update: corrected first time update
• esets_scan (EFS): fixed definition of multiple excludes
• esets_scan (EFS): no first time update required

3.0.8

• esets_daemon: no Internet access required for initialization
• esets_daemon, esets_update: fixed invalid username/password issue for update

3.0.7

• esets_daemon: fixed Remote Administration client reload on Solaris
• esets_daemon: fixed unfinished scanlogs sending by Remote Administration client on Solaris
• esets_daemon: secured communication socket removal
• esets_daemon, esets_update: corrected groupadd and useradd
• esets_daemon: suppressed long timeouts when terminating
• esets_daemon: fixed samples submission system reload
• esets_wwwi: fixed esets_daemon reload on Solaris
• esets_update: added verbose actualization process output
• esets_scan (EFS): fixed file scanning on read-only filesystems

3.0.6

• added checking of user specified TMPDIR environment variable
• support for MAILBOX format scanning
• esets_daemon: fixed ESETS_RECIPIENT environment variable
• esets_inst: added full paths of Postfix binary files
• esets_update: fixed parsing of update.ver info file
• esets_wwwi: fixed relocation error on Solaris
• esets_wwwi: corrected excessive back slashes
• esets_wwwi: added product version check
• esets_http (EGS): support for multipart content type scanning
• esets_dac (EFS): fixed handling of big files (> 2GB)

3.0.5

• fixed higher memory consumption of daemon agents
• corrected esets user switching
• enhanced compatibility of Remote Administration client with Solaris
• esets_update: corrected defaults setting
• esets_scan (EFS): enhanced filename character encoding of scanned objects
• esets_icap (EGS): ICAP server for scanning HTTP messages
• esets_wwwi: added login/logout control

3.0.4

• esets_daemon: added control of syntax errors in main configuration file
• esets_daemon: added anti-virus scanning limits for maximum object size and for maximum object size in self-extracting archives
• esets_wwwi: enhanced compatibility with Solaris
• esets_smtp (EMS): correction of TLS support in MTA Postfix
• esets_scan (EFS): fixed automatic scan of local disks (command line option '--auto')
• esets_scan (EFS): correction of multiple directories exclusion
• esets_scan (EFS): fixed Remote Administration client logging

3.0.2

• upgraded engine technology to ThreatSense v3.0
• configuration, logging and handle object policy rewritten
• added Remote Administration client ability
• additional supported OS: NetBSD 4, Solaris 10
• support for 64-bit Linux OS: native binaries (except esets_daemon)
• ESET Gateway Security: support for non-transparent ftp scanning (esets_http)
• ESET Gateway Security: added huge object handling (esets_ftp)
• ESET Mail Security: added ZMailer's content-filter (esets_zmfi)
• ESET File Security: available for all platforms now (libesets_pac)

2.71.12

• added information USERSPEC into daemon log and daemon notification script (esets_daemon)
• correction of infiltrations information passed to agents (esets_daemon)
• ESET Mail Security: correction of action evaluation when multiple files scanned (esets_cli)
• ESET Gateway Security: support for SafeSquid of version 4.2 and higher (esets_ssfi.so)
• ESET Gateway Security: support of CONNECT method for user defined ports (esets_http)

2.71.11

• ESET Mail Security: implementation of predefined response of server using SetReply (esets_smfi)
• ESET Gateway Security: correction of deleted objects handling (esets_http)

2.71.10

• Corrrected processing of unscanned objects in ESET Gateway Security (esets_http)
• Fixed occasional lock-ups when STOR command is used in passive FTP connection in ESET Gateway Security (esets_ftp)

2.71.8

• Existing products were renamed to ESET Mail Security and ESET File Security
• Antispam engine integrated in ESET Mail Security
• Periodic update of antivirus and antispam databases (esets_daemon)
• Update utility (esets_update)
• IMAP and POP3 filters in ESET Mail Security (esets_imap, esets_pop3)
• HTTP, FTP filters and SafeSquid plugin in ESET Gateway Security (esets_http, esets_ftp, esets_ssfi.so)
• Web interface for administration (esets_wwwi)
• Licensing utility (esets_lic)
• User-friendly system integrator (esets_setup, esets_inst)

2.71.7

• Release and Integration of ESET Gateway Security

2.70.11

• Compatibility with 64-bit Debian OS

2.70.10

• New licensing scheme

2.70.9

• Support for 64bit Linux systems (binaries are executed in 32bit mode)

2.70.8

• nod32d: Fixed bug in daemon communication in case the license has expired
• Fixed installation instructions for Exim

2.70.7

• nod32d: Fixed bug with opening files in quarantine

2.70.6

• nod32d: Fixed bug in memory allocation/deallocation with connections established through a proxy server

2.70.5

• nod32update: Fixed starting of nod32umc and nod32upd.

2.70.4

• nod32update: Fixed issue with download timeout.
• nod32d: Improved signal handling regarding download functionality.
• nod32set: Automatic section creation, if not exists.

2.70.3

• nod32d, nod32update: More accurate waiting on update completion, fixed bug in memory freeing.
• nod32update: Fixed issue in finding directory with binary executables.
• nod32smtp (LMS): Mail's header pollution bugfix.

2.70.1

• nod32d - Added support for scanning of unwanted applications.
• nod32d - Added functionality to update and reload anti-virus modules.
• Added possibility to define scanner parameters individually according to the client/server identification
• Added possibility to define update parameters via main configuration file.
• More evaluated product installation mechanism. The installation package does not contain NOD32 modules any more. These are downloaded during the product first initialization stage, if necessary. The package installation process is more user friendly now.
• nod32d - Enhancement of the license expiration warning functionality.The mechanism does not block the scanned objects processing after license expiration, only deactivates the anti-virus scanning functionality and starts sending the expiration report notification about scanner deactivation to system administrator.
• Command line interface testing functionality of NOD32 agent modules is fully replaced by the testing functionality using agent identification parameter 'aid'.
• Added information about virus database version into the e-mail header X-NOD32Result.
• Fixed bug in quarantine initialization.
• nod32umc - correct implementation of modules download timeout
• Fixed bug in Samples Submission System cache.
• nod32smtp - Fixed bug in requests vs responses synchronization.
• Major changes in documentation.

2.52.6

• nod32smfi - Fixed bug in selective configuration setting of scanner using client/server specification from nod32smfi agent module.
• nod32smfi - Fixed bug in nod32smfi process manager.

2.52.5

• nod32d - Better parsing of e-mail headers incorrectly separated from e-mail body.
• nod32d - Fixed bug in thread manager.

2.52.2

• Higher efficiency of resident agent modules based on implementation of 1 vs N (threads vs client/server connections) model.
• Better system coordination based on maintenance of all resident agent modules services by using main system daemon 'nod32d' (Start of resident agent modules is controlled by parameters 'agent_enabled' of the main NOD32 configuration file.)
• Unified logging system of all the modules.
• Implementation of nod32set module to provide comfortable modifications of NOD32 configuration file.
• Update of the product documentation (changed structure, new information).
• End of the product developement for FreeBSD OS version 4.X. (technical support stays for NOD32BMS 2.51.x). The reason is insufficient support of libc.so.4 library used in FreeBSD OS version 4.x.

2.51.8

• support for e-mail headers of Zmailer

2.51.7

• nod32smfi - fixed bug in headers handling
• fixed bug in state of scan (clean vs. not scanned)
• correct handling of restart statement within initialization scripts of deb packages

2.51.6

• fixed parsing in e-mail header for logs
• fixed bug in state of scan (clean vs. not scanned)

2.51.4

• Performance improvements in NOD32MDA
• Minor bug fixes in NOD32MDA

2.51.1

• Implementation of maximum archives descension level of scanner.
• Implementation of maximum scanning time (soft limit).
• Implementation of maximum unpacked archive size limit.
• Quarantine functionality implementation.
• Scanning system actions replaced by action_on_infected, action_on_uncleanable, action_on_notscanned, with enhanced functionality (clean, delete, accept, defer, discard, reject).
• Q-mail filter support enhanced (nod32pipe, nod32mda) including content filtering.
• Pipelined SMTP communication support in nod32smtp.
• Support for logrotate of internal daemon logging output.
• nod32umc: selective download of groups of component modules.
• Samples submission system re-implemented as individual process automanaged by main daemon.
• License expiration warning mechanism added.
• Better temporary files handling.
• Daemon--agent communication stability fixed.
• Support for scanning of uuencoded messages.
• nod32cli - writes infiltration name into the stdout.

2.15

• nod32d - memory allocation problems in archives support fixed
• nod32d - support for selfextracting archives added

2.14

• nod32d - logging format changed (nod32 build module number 'vdb' added)
• nod32d - memory allocation problems fixed
• nod32umc - return values problem fixed
• enhanced nod32lms documentation
• rpm package for RedHat Ready and (Novell) SuSE Ready added (package nod32lms-rsr reflects specifications: RedHat Ready and SuSE Ready)
• nod32cli - initial version of nod32 command line intreface agent

2.13

• support for Linux Kernel 2.6.x
• nod32upd (possibility to create mirror even if base directory is not defined)
• nod32smfi (abort of SMTP session fixed)
• footnote not written for digitally signed e-mails

2.12

• nod32smfi - memory allocation problems fixed
• nod32d - logging of communication between daemon and agent (level debug)
• guide.us.txt - documentation improved

2.11

• nod32smfi as Sendmail's Content Filter added

2.10

• nod32d (logging format changed)
• nod32unc (possibility of obsolete modules removal)

2.09

• nod32d (zombie processes creation fixed)

2.08

• nod32smtp (interpretation of nod32d return status "not scanned " fixed)
• nod32d (new logging level introduced - "full")
• nod32d (logging via syslog facility)

2.07

• nod32smtp (interpretation of nod32d return status "deleted" fixed)
• nod32d (header and footer insertion into e-mail footnote corrected)

2.06

• e-mail parsing fixed

2.05

• minor bugs fixed

2.04

• update via http-proxy with basic authentication supported
• multiple levels of logging in update mirror creator
• status deleted added into header and subject info

2.03

• support for downloading NOD32 Version 2 updates (packed worm scanner module)

2.01

• notification
• possibility to write infiltration information into e-mail header

2.00

• support for downloading NOD32 Version 2 updates (including archive module and other modules)
• advanced heuristics for Win32 worms
• multiple levels of logging
• possibility to write infiltration information into email footer and subject
• enhanced configurability
• esets_wwwi: quarantine support
• esets_wwwi: updated php to 5.2.8
• esets_quar: fixed samples sending and listing, new option: --list-fmt
• esets_quar: supported separate quarantine for all users
• esets_inst: enhanced compatibility with qmail