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ecurity Notice Concerning CVE-2014-6271 / CVE-2014-7169 - GNU Bash Vulnerability

URGENT: Dell SonicWALL Notice Concerning CVE-2014-6271 / CVE-2014-7169 – GNU Bash Vulnerability Researchers have found a critical vulnerability(CVE-2014-6271 / CVE-2014-7169) in the GNU Bash Shell(aka “ShellShock”) which was reported on the NIST National Vulnerability Database on 9/25/2014. Dell SonicWALL Firewalls are NOT Affected and Dell SonicWALL E-Class Secure Remote Access/Secure Mobile Access are NOT Affected Affected SonicWALL Products: SMB Secure Remote Access (SMB SRA) Appliances, IF Web Application Firewall (WAF) is NOT Enabled Email Security Appliances Management and Reporting Appliances Please immediately logon to MySonicWALL (https://www.mysonicwall.com/ ) , go to…

URGENT: Dell SonicWALL Notice Concerning CVE-2014-6271 / CVE-2014-7169 - GNU Bash Vulnerability

Researchers have found a critical vulnerability(CVE-2014-6271 / CVE-2014-7169) in the GNU Bash Shell(aka “ShellShock”) which was reported on the NIST National Vulnerability Database on 9/24/2014. Dell SonicWALL Firewalls are NOT Affected and Dell SonicWALL E-Class Secure Remote Access/Secure Mobile Access are NOT Affected Affected SonicWALL Products: SMB Secure Remote Access (SMB SRA) Appliances, IF Web Application Firewall (WAF) is NOT Enabled Email Security Appliances Management and Reporting Appliances Please immediately logon to MySonicWALL (https://www.mysonicwall.com/ ) , go to “My Products > Security Notice”, and carefully review the related Dell SonicWALL…

VPN issues

Before taking any decision related to  VPN / Remote access , please consider following changes happened recently in Qatar . 1- After recent upgradation from ADSL to Fiber , users facing issues with IPSec/ISAKMP traffic  . Because of this many site-to-site VPN locations become unstable . It is applicable to 3G/4G and Fiber connections , but not applicable to MPLS/Internet-IP-VPN/Static-IP/Leased-line/V-sat connections . Solution : Use Cisco based  cTCP  ( https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/ios-easy-vpn/prod_white_paper0900aecd8061e2b3.html ) or OpenVPN . Both of this are not using standard UDP/ TCP ports for VPN . You can use/change any port…