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F5 Networks: K65615624 (CVE-2017-6166): BIG-IP FastL4 TMM vulnerability CVE-2017-6166

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F5 Networks: K65615624 (CVE-2017-6166): BIG-IP FastL4 TMM vulnerability CVE-2017-6166

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/06/2017
Modified
02/01/2018

Description

In BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe software 12.0.0 to 12.1.1, in some cases the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) may crash when processing fragmented packets. This vulnerability affects TMM through a virtual server configured with a FastL4 profile. Traffic processing is disrupted while TMM restarts. If the affected BIG-IP system is configured as part of a device group, it will trigger a failover to the peer device.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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