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F5 Networks: K13421245 (CVE-2017-6162): TMM vulnerability CVE-2017-6162

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F5 Networks: K13421245 (CVE-2017-6162): TMM vulnerability CVE-2017-6162

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/26/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/28/2017
Modified
02/01/2018

Description

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, Websafe software version 12.0.0 to 12.1.2, 11.6.0 to 11.6.1, 11.4.0 to 11.5.4, 11.2.1, in some cases TMM may crash when processing TCP traffic. This vulnerability affects TMM via a virtual server configured with TCP profile. Traffic processing is disrupted while Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) restarts. If the affected BIG-IP system is configured to be part of a device group, it will trigger a failover to the peer device.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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