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F5 Networks: K43322910 (CVE-2017-6135): Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2017-6135

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F5 Networks: K43322910 (CVE-2017-6135): Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2017-6135

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
12/20/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/31/2018
Modified
03/03/2020

Description

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, GTM, Link Controller, PEM and WebSafe software version 13.0.0, a slow memory leak as a result of undisclosed IPv4 or IPv6 packets sent to BIG-IP management port or self IP addresses may lead to out of memory (OOM) conditions.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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