Software Update: Sophos XG Firewall 17.0.3 MR3

Sophos has released a new version of its XG Firewall with 17.0.3 MR3 as the version number. This software runs on physical hardware as well as in a soft appliance for VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and KVM supplied† In addition to the paid variants for businesses, Sophos offers this firewall for home use at no cost, such as on this page can be read. For the various image and update files you can visit the MySophos Portal† The announcement of this release looks like this:

SFOS 17.0.3 MR3 Released

Hi XG Community!

We’ve finished SFOS v17.0.3 MR3. This release is available from within your device for all SFOS v17.0 installations as of now. Besides that, the release is available to all SFOS version via MySophos portal.

Issues Resolved

• NC-25584 [IPsec] IPsec tunnel frequently gets disconnected after migration to v17
• NC-25597 [IPsec] Disabling DPD has no effect
• NC-25641 [IPsec] Improve IPsec failover behavior
• NC-26024 [IPsec] Change default “Policy Keying Tries” to unlimited
• NC-26032 [IPsec] Too many email notifications on connection retry
• NC-25986 [Logging] Fixed CVE-2017-XXXX (TBD)
• NC-23214 [Wireless] XG105w failed to update channel width 80 MHz for 5Ghz band