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F5: CVE-2015-8240: K06223540: F5 TCP vulnerability CVE-2015-8240

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Mar 17, 2016

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and BIG-IP PEM before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.0 HF6 and BIG-IP PSM before 11.4.1 HF10 does not properly handle TCP options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) through unspecified vectors, related to the tm.minpathmtu database variable.

Solution

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2015-8240
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2015-8240
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K06223540
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-8128
EUVD-EUVD-2015-8128

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