SonicWall’s Email Security and Firewall Products Were Hit by the Y2K22 Bug

SonicWall acknowledged on January 7th that the Y2K22 bug had affected some of its Email Security and firewall solutions, causing message log updates and junk box failures beginning January 1st, 2022. According to the organization, email users and administrators on affected systems would no longer be able to access the junk box or un-junk newly received emails. They will also be unable to trace incoming/outgoing emails using the message logs because they will no longer be updated.

SonicWall, a private firm based in Silicon Valley that was a Dell subsidiary from 2012 to 2016, produces a variety of Internet equipment aimed largely at content restriction and network security. These include network firewalls, unified threat management (UTM), virtual private networks (VPNs), and email anti-spam devices. 

SonicWall issued updates to North American and European instances of Hosted Email Security, the company’s cloud email security service, on January 2nd. It also issued updates for its on-premises Email Security Appliance (ES 10.0.15) for customers that use firewalls with the Anti-Spam Junk Store feature enabled (Junk Store 7.6.9). 

The server administration community has dubbed this bug “Y2K22” because to its resemblance to the infamous Y2K bug, a date-related bug that was feared to cause numerous computer systems, and possibly the whole world economy, to crash at the turn of the century. FIP-FS is a malware-scanning engine built into Microsoft Exchange 2016 and 2019 servers. This engine employs a signature f

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