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SonicWALL Licensing Server Failure

Posted on December 4th, 2008

Tuesday morning December 2nd one of SonicWALL’s Licensing Servers failed to respond correctly to licensing queries from SonicWALL Firewalls.  Although this issue has been corrected, it left some SonicWALLs with reduced functionality.  SonicWALL devices will disable all licensed content if they are unable to contact a SonicWALL server.

SonicWALL Content Filter Security Vulnerability

Posted on October 31st, 2008

GSA Reference Number: AD081031-01
Updated: 11-3-2008

Simply Put: SonicWALL has released an advisory regarding a new vulnerability found in its content filter.  If a user behind a SonicWALL with content filtering enabled clicks on a malicious link, an attacker can cause malicious javascript to be executed through the content filter’s “Blocked Traffic” screen.  This vulnerability only affects SonicWALLs running the Enhanced OS using the content filter with the CFS Block Page.  See below for vulnerable versions.