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F5: CVE-2016-9252: K46535047: F5 TCP IPv6 vulnerability CVE-2016-9252

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Mar 23, 2017

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP systems before 11.5.4 HF3, 11.6.x before 11.6.1 HF2, and 12.x.x before 12.1.2 do not properly handle minimum path MTU options for IPv6, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) through unspecified vectors.

Solution

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2016-9252
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-9252
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K46535047
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-10063
EUVD-EUVD-2016-10063

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