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Nipper updated to 0.11.3

Sunday 27 January 2008

Nipper performs security audits of network device configuration files. The report produced by Nipper includes; detailed security-related issues with recommendations, a configuration report and various appendices. Nipper currently supports Cisco IOS, PIX, ASA, FWSM, NMP, CatOS and Juniper NetScreen devices.

The improvements made to SonicOS & Firewall1 support constitute feature additions. Not something that would normally be in a maintenance release.

Changes: The following changes have been made to this version:
- Improved SonicOS service processing.
- Improved SonicOS policy processing.
- Optimisations to base64 routine.
- General SonicOS optimisations.
- Improved Cisco PIX SSH remote access host processing.
- Added Cisco PIX SSH remote access hosts issue.
- Added support for Firewall-1 rules.C files from the database directory.
- Modified the Nipper Appendix section URL.
- Fixed bug with Dynamic Objects report table output for Firewall-1 devices.
- Improved Firewall-1 service object processing.
- Fixed a PQR issue with the software version issue.
- Fixed an issue with FW1 policies that are logged on some configs (Ref. 1879064).
- Windows version now loads nipper.ini from the current directory.


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