Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools for Linux

Security fixes

Security fixes

Resolved an issue causing increased CPU usage on Red Hat Enterprise endpoints running with the EDR Sensor module installed.

Security fixes

Added support for the Pop!OS operating system with kernel version 6.6.6-76060606-generic.

You can now properly install and use the Patch Management module on endpoints with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5.

Malware detections on virtual machines are now properly transmitted and displayed under Incidents, Threats Xplorer, Executive summary and the Security audit report. The issue sometimes occurred when Container Protection was not installed on the machine.

Resolved an issue causing Malware Status reports to be displayed under Scan Logs when viewing endpoint details from the Network page.

Fixed an issue causing scans to add folder and subfolder paths to scan lists despite being excluded in the policy applied to the endpoint. This was causing increased RAM usage.

Security fixes

Stability fixes.

Security and stability fixes.

Incidents are now created when Integrity Monitoring rules with the critical severity level are triggered.

BEST for Linux is now limited at using 50% of an endpoint's CPU usage when performing On-Demand scans with low priority.

The Paused/Suspended, and Stopped statuses are now available for container endpoints when displayed in the the GravityZone console.

BEST for Linux is now compatible with the following distributions:

You can now use ** wild card exclusions for On-Access scans. The feature works for both files and folders.

BEST for Linux now properly identifies Amazon Web Service EC2 with IMDSV2 when deployed with the automatic scan mode.

On-Access scans that run on container hosts with BEST for Linux deployed with Container protection now exclude folders where container engines unpack image layers and mount overlay file systems.

Fixed an issue where Docker container namespaces were still protected by BEST for Linux after the container was removed.

Incidents now show the correct action taken for events where items were quarantined as a result of a malware detection.

Resolved an issue causing some security updates to fail when performed through a Relay.

Resolved an issue causing some log files to be mistakenly generated in the "/" directory during security updates.

Security fixes

Security fixes

Added support for upcoming features available with the next major GravityZone release.

The Network Attack Defense module no longer blocks SSH connections with other endpoints.

Custom detection rules that have a Parent Name matching criteria with a wildcard currently do not work.

The Antimalware feature does not currently work on CentOS 7 operating systems using ARM architectures (aarch64).

Added support for upcoming features available with the next major GravityZone release.

The Network Attack Defense module no longer blocks SSH connections with other endpoints.

Custom detection rules that have a Parent Name matching criteria with a wildcard currently do not work.

The Antimalware feature does not currently work on CentOS 7 operating systems using ARM architectures (aarch64).

Security fixes

You can now upload and download files when using the Remote Shell feature on Linux endpoints. Learn more

You can now cancel any ongoing or pending file transfers resulted from the use of the Remote Shell feature.

The Delete all button is now available: all the entries will be removed from the Investigation grid and all pending or ongoing downloads will be canceled.

BEST for Linux v7 is now compatible with the following distributions:

BEST for Linux us now compatible with ARM architecture (aarch64).

The curl table used by the Live Search feature is now disabled on endpoints with BEST for Linux installed. This was done to protect against exploits involving lateral movement attacks.

Added the efivar library in BEST for Linux packages, covered under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1.

Removed support for several DazukoFS module kernel archives. The following archives are still supported:

Updated the OpenSSL library to version 1.1.1u.

Updated libssh library to version 0.10.5.

Endpoints using the Network Attack Defense feature now use the netfilter conntrack helper component to avoid routing all ports for FTP connections.

Network Attack Defense no longer blocks access to the Oracle MySQL Workbench 8.0.29 database when deployed with BEST for Linux.

Resolved an issue causing File, Folder or Process scanning exclusions to not include subfolders when a / is added at the end of the folder path.

Launching BEST for Linux now properly cleans Bitdefender AuditD rules at startup.

Downloading an installation kit on a relay now properly removes older kits from the endpoint. An issue was causing the maximum number of kits that are allowed on a relay endpoint to be exceeded by 1.

Fixed an issue causing endpoints with BEST for Linux to display the Connection to the Cloud services cannot be established notification, despite it being disabled from the policy applied on the endpoint. The setting can be found under General > Notifications > Endpoint Issues Visibility > Modular Settings > Cloud Services notifications.

Endpoints with BEST for Linux installed are no longer connecting directly to the GravityZone cloud services despite them being configured to connect through a proxy.

On-demand scans are no longer interrupted when performed on archives larger than 4 GB.

Fixed an issue which could lead to potential deadlocks within the EDR module.

BEST for Linux now stops querying update servers once a connection is established.

Fixed an issue causing BEST for Linux updates to fail, returning error 403.

Failed product updates now properly fall back to the next available update server.

Removed support for Patch Management for the following distributions:

Decrypting documents downloaded from Remote shell sessions returns an error (decryption forced to fail!), despite the decryption being successful.

BEST for Linux sometimes fails to start after the endpoint where it is deployed is upgraded from init.d to systemd. To resolve this issue refer to this article.

Remote shell sessions are currently not displaying certain special characters.

Moving to the /opt/bitdefender-security-tools/ directory during a remote shell session incorrectly returns error 123 instead of error 313.

Trying to use a read-only network mount as an upload path during a remote shell session incorrectly returns error 0 instead of error 5 - access denied.

BEST updates no longer refresh update repositories on SLES operating systems.

Fixed an issue causing BEST to mount NFS shares as a result of on-demand scans.

Updating BEST no longer restores NAD module script execution rights to default.

On-demand scans that run with low priority now only use half of available endpoint resources.

BEST for Linux is now compatible with the PopOS and Amazon Linux 2023 distributions.

KProbes now support security content update rings.

You can now use On-Access scanning for files in the root (/) directory on containers protected by BEST.

The Support Tool now gathers additional logs.

You can now use the Support Tool with Bitdefender Security for Containers.

Added support for upcoming features available with the next major GravityZone release.

Security containers are now deployed in a dedicated namespace on Kubernetes: bitdefender-security-container.

Security containers now use a dedicated Kubernetes service account: bitdefender-security-container.

All RHEL and RHEL derivatives (for example, CentOS and Oracle) prior 6.10 are no longer supported.

Deploying Security Containers on OpenShift 4.12 and later environments using the Helm package manager is currently unsupported.

Fixed multiple compatibility issues between BEST for Linux and NFS mounts.

Security and stability fixes.

Endpoints with the Network Attack Defense module deployed are no longer experiencing connectivity issues.

Reconfigure client tasks configured with the Match List option no longer fail when the endpoints are communicating through a Relay.

Fixed an issue causing the Antimalware module to sometimes crash when performing On-access scan tasks.

Deploying BEST for Linux on endpoints not using the default package manager of their operating system no longer fails.