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F5 Networks: K55225440 (CVE-2017-6148): BIG-IP SOCKS proxy vulnerability CVE-2017-6148

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F5 Networks: K55225440 (CVE-2017-6148): BIG-IP SOCKS proxy vulnerability CVE-2017-6148

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/12/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/09/2018
Modified
09/16/2019

Description

Responses to SOCKS proxy requests made through F5 BIG-IP version 13.0.0, 12.0.0-12.1.3.1, 11.6.1-11.6.2, or 11.5.1-11.5.5 may cause a disruption of services provided by TMM. The data plane is impacted and exposed only when a SOCKS proxy profile is attached to a Virtual Server. The control plane is not impacted by this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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