Release Notes

McAfee Agent 5.0.6

For use with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

Contents
About this release
Resolved issues
Installation instructions
Known issues
Getting product information by email
Find product documentation

About this release

This document contains important information about the current release. We recommend that you read the
whole document.

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 date July 11, 2017

Release build
McAfee Agent 5.0.6.220

McAfee Agent Extension 5.0.6.107

Version information
For McAfee Agent 5.0.x version details, see KB82105.

McAfee Agent 5.0.x can be used only with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) 5.1.1 or later and

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Cloud (McAfee ePO Cloud). You can manage previous versions of McAfee Agent
with the McAfee Agent 5.0.x extensions, but previous versions of the agent extensions cannot manage McAfee
Agent 5.0.x clients.

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 Supported McAfee products
For the list of products that McAfee supports, see KB89442.

Supported operating systems

For the list of supported operating systems, see KB51573.

Rating High Priority

Mandatory Critical High Priority Recommended

High priority for all environments.

Failure to apply a High Priority update might result in potential business impact.

Most patches and hotfixes are considered High Priority.

For more information, see KB51560.

Resolved issues
The current release of the product resolves these issues. For a list of issues fixed in earlier releases, see the
Release Notes for the specific release.

Security

Reference Issue description

1192895 [Windows, Linux, and Mac] McAfee Agent now fixes a vulnerability in its remote log viewing
feature. For more information, see SB10183.
1197618, [Windows] The additional protection mechanisms in the McAfee Agent UI now prevent attacks
1199290 that might cause product unresponsiveness and DAT update failures.

1199289 [Windows] The deployment or update task now runs successfully with the presence of software
that is untrusted by McAfee.

Installation

Reference Issue description

1196740 [Mac] McAfee Agent now successfully migrates policies when you upgrade from 4.x.
1197580 [Linux] When you install McAfee Agent using the command install.sh -u, the agent no longer
logs error messages on the console.
1196821 [Mac] McAfee Agent now restarts once during the upgrade.
1185587 [Linux and Mac] The McAfee Agent runtime folder is now created with root permissions.
1194000 [Windows] After upgrading McAfee Agent, the REG_SZ AgentVersion registry value is now
updated with the correct information.

Product manageability

Reference Issue description

1192033 [Linux] macompatsvc no longer crashes when two parallel threads try to access SQLite
databases.
1195205 [Windows] mfemactl.log now adheres to the logging policy.

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 Reference Issue description
1192031 [Windows] McAfee Agent now displays the correct status of macompatsvc on McAfee Agent
Monitor.
1192032 [Windows, Linux, and Mac] McAfee Agent now collects a valid IPv4 address associated with
Network Interface Card (NIC), even if the client system has 10 or more IP addresses.
1188459 [Windows] McAfee Agent now reports OS OEM Identifier property value as N/A, if the value is not
available. This prevents the masvc process from stopping abruptly after installation.
1193572 [Windows] McAfee Agent is now compatible with McAfee Global Threat Intelligence Proxy

(McAfee GTI Proxy). For more information, see KB89442.

Scheduler

Reference Issue description

1189203 [Windows, Linux, and Mac] McAfee Agent now runs tasks as scheduled when the Run missed task
option is enabled.

Updater

Reference Issue description

1197054 [Windows] UpdaterUI now completes successfully when you log off or shut down the system.
1197576 [Linux] The masvc process no longer closes abruptly during repository sorting.

Other fixes

Reference Issue description

1196711 [Mac] McAfee Agent now successfully collects agent statistics in all cases.
1187295 [Windows] McAfee Agent now handles multi-byte format which allows the repository names to
appear correctly.
1193119 [Linux] McAfee Agent now collects and reports the OS kernel version that matches with McAfee
Agent 4.x.

Installation instructions
For information about installing or upgrading McAfee Agent, see the McAfee Agent Product Guide PD27104.

Known issues
For a list of known issues in this product release, see this McAfee KnowledgeBase article: KB83895.

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