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F5 Networks: K22843911 (CVE-2015-7759): F5 Path MTU Discovery vulnerability CVE-2015-7759

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F5 Networks: K22843911 (CVE-2015-7759): F5 Path MTU Discovery vulnerability CVE-2015-7759

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2017
Modified
02/01/2018

Description

BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, Link Controller, and PEM 12.0.0 before HF1, when the TCP profile for a virtual server is configured with Congestion Metrics Cache enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) restart) via crafted ICMP packets, related to Path MTU (PMTU) discovery.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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