Release Notes
McAfee Database Security 5.2.2
Contents
About this release
New features
Resolved issues
Installation instructions
Known issues
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About this release
This document contains important information about the current release. We strongly recommend that
you read the entire document.
Important We do not support the automatic upgrade of a pre-release software version. To upgrade to a
production release of the software, you must first uninstall the existing version.
Release build – 5.2.2
Package date – February 7, 2017
Purpose
This release provides new features, including support for additional databases, and resolves several
issues.
Rating
High Priority – McAfee rates this release as a high priority for all environments to avoid a potential
business impact. This update should be applied as soon as possible.
For more information about patch ratings, refer to McAfee KnowledgeBase article KB51560.
New features
This release of the product includes these new features.
ePO 5.9 Support
Support for additional database platforms
In this release, the sensor supports these additional database versions.
SQL Server 2016 RTM GDR (13.0.1728.2)
SQL Server 2016 CU3 (13.0.2190.2)
SQL Server 2016 SP1 GDR (13.0.4202.2)
SQL Server 2014 SP2 CU3 (12.0.5538.0)
SQL Server 2014 SP1 CU10 (12.0.4491.0)
SQL Server 2012 SP3 CU7 (11.0.6579) (x64)
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Sybase 15.7.0 EBF 22643
Percona MySQL support
This release supports Percona, a MySQL distribution.
Bind variables
Bind Variables are now reported with SQL Server Memory Monitoring module, with no need for network
monitoring. Using the Memory Monitoring technology, bind variables are also reported for local
connections.
MySQL activity details
This release includes additional OS user and application details for local MySQL activity.
Row count support
This release includes the ability to report affected row count for MySQL and MariaDB (using the audit
plugin) and SQL Server (using the In-Process Monitoring module).
Activity-based session details
This release includes the capability to gather session information based on specific activity done by the
application servers. For example, acquiring the end username by intercepting SAP application-specific
activities sent when the user is logged in.
Resolved issues
These issues are resolved in this release of the product. For a list of issues fixed in earlier releases, see
the release notes for the specific release.
Reference Issue description
1166872 An issue related to writing non-English characters to file as part of Log-to-File
rule action has been resolved.
1171649, Issues related to AD Server integration under specific conditions have been
1171658 resolved.
1144171 Sensor performance has been improved for high-load systems, with decreased
CPU utilization.
1177506 Sensor modifications in monitoring DB2 instance on Unix (Solaris/AIX/Linux)
1176837
1168056
1168205 Performance of the vulnerability assessment, scan user connection check has
been improved.
1171714, The structure of the logs and analytic package have been improved.
1169919,
1174460,
1166872
1173945 An issue with password masking on Oracle activities using the REPLACE
keyword has been resolved
Installation instructions
For information about installing or upgrading this software, see the McAfee Database Security Product
Guide.
Known issues
For a list of known issues in this product release, refer to McAfee KnowledgeBase article KB87368.
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