BIG-IP 12.1.3.6 Fixes and Known Issues

Supplemental Document : BIG-IP 12.1.3.6 Fixes and Known Issues

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BIG-IP AAM

12.1.3

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12.1.3

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12.1.3

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12.1.3

BIG-IP LTM

12.1.3

BIG-IP PEM

12.1.3

BIG-IP AFM

12.1.3

BIG-IP DNS

12.1.3

BIG-IP ASM

12.1.3

Original Publication Date: 07/26/2018 Updated Date: 06/22/2020

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
709972-4	CVE-2017-12613	K52319810	CVE-2017-12613: APR Vulnerability
709688-5	CVE-2017-3144 CVE-2018-5732 CVE-2018-5733	K08306700	dhcp Security Advisory - CVE-2017-3144, CVE-2018-5732, CVE-2018-5733
710705-3	CVE-2018-7320, CVE-2018-7321, CVE-2018-7322, CVE-2018-7423, CVE-2018-7324, CVE-2018-7325, CVE-2018-7326, CVE-2018-7327, CVE-2018-7428, CVE-2018-7329, CVE-2018-7330, CVE-2018-7331, CVE-2018-7332, CVE-2018-7333, CVE-2018-7334, CVE-2018-7335, CVE-2018-7336, CVE-2018-7337, CVE-2018-7417, CVE-2018-7418, CVE-2018-7419, CVE-2018-7420, CVE-2018-7421	K34035645	Multiple Wireshark vulnerabilities
710148-4	CVE-2017-1000111 CVE-2017-1000112	K60250153	CVE-2017-1000111 & CVE-2017-1000112
673165	CVE-2017-7895	K15004519	CVE-2017-7895: Linux Kernel Vulnerability
693744-3	CVE-2018-5531	K64721111	High CPU Usage by the TMM Can Cause SOD to Kill vCMP Guests
710244-1	CVE-2018-5536	K27391542	Memory Leak of access policy execution objects
716992-3	CVE-2018-5539	K75432956	The ASM bd process may crash
703940-3	CVE-2018-5530	K45611803	Malformed HTTP/2 frame consumes excessive system resources
698813-3	CVE-2018-5538	K45435121	When processing DNSX transfers ZoneRunner does not enforce best practices
672124-3	CVE-2018-5541	K12403422	Excessive resource usage when BD is processing requests

Functional Change Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
671999-2	3-Major		Re-extract the the thales software everytime the installation script is run
643034-1	3-Major		Turn off TCP Proxy ICMP forwarding by default
620445-4	3-Major		New SIP::persist keyword to set the timeout without changing key
613023-4	3-Major		Update SIP::Persist to support resetting timeout value.
441079-2	3-Major	K55242686	BIG-IP 2000/4000: Source port on NAT connections are modified when they should be preserved
693007-3	4-Minor		Modify b.root-servers.net IPv4 address 192.228.79.201 to 199.9.14.201 according to InterNIC

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
700315-3	1-Blocking	K26130444	Ctrl+C does not terminate TShark
636774-1	1-Blocking		Potential TMM crash credits to BWC token distribution logic
710314-2	2-Critical		TMM may crash while processing HTML traffic
706423-2	2-Critical		tmm may restart if an IKEv2 child SA expires during an async encryption or decryption
705476-4	2-Critical		Appliance Mode does not follow design best practices
696113-1	2-Critical		Extra IPsec reference added per crypto operation overflows connflow refcount
692158-2	2-Critical		iCall and CLI script memory leak when saving configuration
690819-3	2-Critical		Using an iRule module after a 'session lookup' may result in crash
671314-4	2-Critical	K37093335	BIG-IP system cores when sending SIP SCTP traffic
665362-4	2-Critical		MCPD might crash if the AOM restarts
663197-3	2-Critical		Security hardening of files to prevent sensitive configuration from being stored in qkview.
626861-2	2-Critical		Ensure unique IKEv2 sequence numbers
599223-1	2-Critical		Prevent static destructors in tmipsecd daemon
581851-2	2-Critical		mcpd process on secondary blades unexpectedly restarts when the system processes multiple tmsh commands
508113-3	2-Critical		tmsh load sys config base merge file <filename> fails
720880	3-Major		Attempts to license/re-license the BIG-IP system fail.
720756	3-Major		SNMP platform name is unknown on i11400-DS/i11600-DS/i11800-DS
720104	3-Major		BIG-IP i2800/i2600 650W AC PSU has marketing name missing under 'show sys hardware'
714848	3-Major		OPT-0031 and OPT-0036 log DDM warning every minute when interface disabled and DDM enabled
710827-4	3-Major		TMUI dashboard daemon stability issue
710602	3-Major		iCRD commands requiring 'root' user access fixed
707445	3-Major	K47025244	Nitrox 3 compression hangs/unable to recover
704336-3	3-Major		Updating 3rd party device cert not copied correctly to trusted certificate store
704282-3	3-Major		TMM halts and restarts when calculating BWC pass rate for dynamic bwc policy
701900	3-Major	K55938217	DHCP configured domain-name-servers unavailable after reboot when there are more than two domain-name servers in the lease.
698947-1	3-Major		BIG-IP may incorrectly drop packets from a GRE tunnel with auto-lasthop disabled.
694740-1	3-Major		BIG-IP reboot during a TMM core results in an incomplete core dump
693106-2	3-Major		IKEv1 newest established phase-one SAs should be found first in a search
692179-3	3-Major		Potential high memory usage from errdefsd.
687905	3-Major		OneConnect profile causes CMP redirected connections on the HA standby
687534-3	3-Major		If a Pool contains ".." in the name, it is impossible to add a Member to this pool using the GUI Local Traffic > Pools : Member List page
686926-3	3-Major		IPsec: responder N(cookie) in SA_INIT response handled incorrectly
684391-1	3-Major		Existing IPsec tunnels reload. tmipsecd creates a core file.
680838-3	3-Major		IKEv2 able to fail assert for GETSPI_DONE when phase-one SA appears not to be initiator
679347-3	3-Major		ECP does not work for PFS in IKEv2 child SAs
678925-4	3-Major		Using a multicast VXLAN tunnel without a proper route may cause a TMM crash.
677928-2	3-Major		A wrong source MAC address may be used in the outgoing IPsec encapsulated packets.
677088-4	3-Major		Qkview does not follow current best practices
676897-1	3-Major	K25082113	IPsec keeps failing to reconnect
676092-1	3-Major		IPsec keeps failing to reconnect
675718-1	3-Major		IPsec keeps failing to reconnect
669268	3-Major		Failover in the same availability zone of AWS may fail when AWS services are intermittently available.
667223	3-Major		The merge option for the tmsh load sys config command removes existing nested objects
666035-1	3-Major		Obscuring secrets in files collected by qkview
621314-6	3-Major	K55358710	SCTP virtual server with mirroring may cause excessive memory use on standby device
617865-1	3-Major		Missing health monitor information for FQDN members
605270-5	3-Major		On some platforms the SYN-Cookie status report is not accurate
588929-2	3-Major		SCTP emits 'address conflict detected' log messages during failover
588794-2	3-Major		Misconfigured SCTP alternate addresses may emit incorrect ARP advertisements
588771-2	3-Major		SCTP needs traffic-group validation for server-side client alternate addresses
586938-1	3-Major	K57360106	Standby device will respond to the ARP of the SCTP multihoming alternate address
525580-1	3-Major	K51013874	tmsh load sys config merge file filename.scf base command does not work as expected
685475-3	4-Minor	K93145012	Unexpected error when applying hotfix
680856-3	4-Minor		IPsec config via REST scripts may require post-definition touch of both policy and traffic selector
679135-3	4-Minor		IKEv1 and IKEv2 cannot share common local address in tunnels
678388-3	4-Minor	K00050055	IKEv1 racoon daemon is not restarted when killed multiple times
658298-3	4-Minor		SMB monitor marks node down when file not specified
624484-2	4-Minor	K09023677	Timestamps not available in bash history on non-login interactive shells
573031-1	4-Minor		qkview may not collect certain configuration files in their entirety
720391-1	5-Cosmetic		BIG-IP i7800 Dual SSD reports wrong marketing name under 'show sys hardware'
713491-1	5-Cosmetic		IKEv1 logging shows spi of deleted SA with opposite endianess
651826-2	5-Cosmetic		SPI fields of IPsec ike-sa, byte order of displayed numbers rendered incorrectly

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
718071-3	2-Critical		HTTP2 with ASM policy not passing traffic
715923-3	2-Critical		When processing TLS traffic TMM may reset connections
709334-2	2-Critical		Memory leak when SSL Forward proxy is used and ssl re-negotiates
708114-3	2-Critical	K33319853	TMM may crash when processing the handshake message relating to OCSP, after the SSL connection is closed
707447-2	2-Critical		Default SNI clientssl profile's sni_certsn_hash can be freed while in use by other profiles.
707207-2	2-Critical		iRuleLx returning undefined value may cause TMM restart
703914-1	2-Critical		TMM SIGSEGV crash in poolmbr_conn_dec.
686685-1	2-Critical		LTM Policy internal compilation error
683631-1	2-Critical		TMM crashes during stress test
678722-2	2-Critical		In SSL-O, TMM may core when SSL forward proxy cleanup certificate resources
676721-2	2-Critical	K33325265	Missing check for NULL condition causes tmm crash.
674004-1	2-Critical	K34448924	tmm may crash when after deleting pool member in traffic
670804-2	2-Critical	K03163260	Hardware syncookies, verified-accept, and OneConnect can result in 'verify_accept' assert in server-side TCP
656898-2	2-Critical		"oops" "bad transition" messages occur
613524-3	2-Critical		TMM crash when call HTTP::respond twice in LB_FAILED
598110-1	2-Critical		pkcs11d daemon should not show status 'up' until all connections are established with HSM and BIG-IP is ready to process traffic.
586587-1	2-Critical		RatePaceMaxRate functionality does not work for the TCP flows where the round-trip time (RTT) is less than 6ms.
571651-3	2-Critical	K66544028	Reset crypto accelerator queue if it becomes stuck.
440620-2	2-Critical		New connections may be reset when a client reuses the same port as it used for a recently closed connection
713951-3	3-Major		tmm core files produced by nitrox_diag may be missing data
713934-4	3-Major		Using iRule 'DNS::question name' to shorten the name in DNS_REQUEST may result malformed TC response
712475-1	3-Major	K56479945	DNS zones without servers will prevent DNS Express reading zone data
712464-1	3-Major		Exclude the trusted anchor certificate in hash algorithm selection when Forward Proxy forges a certificate
712437-1	3-Major	K20355559	Records containing hyphens (-) will prevent child zone from loading correctly
711281-3	3-Major		nitrox_diag may run out of space on /shared
708653-3	3-Major		TMM may crash while processing TCP traffic
707951	3-Major		Stalled mirrored flows on HA next-active when OneConnect is used.
704381-3	3-Major		SSL/TLS handshake failures and terminations are logged at too low a level
703580	3-Major		TLS1.1 handshake failure on v12.1.3 vCMP guest with earlier BIG-IP version on vCMP host.
702151-2	3-Major		HTTP/2 can garble large headers
700889-2	3-Major		Software syncookies without TCP TS improperly include TCP options that are not encoded
700061-3	3-Major		Restarting service MCPD or rebooting BIG-IP device adds 'other' file read permissions to key file
700057-3	3-Major		LDAP fails to initiate SSL negotiation because client cert and key associated file permissions are not preserved
698916-3	3-Major		TMM crash with HTTP/2 under specific condition
698379-3	3-Major	K61238215	HTTP2 upload intermittently is aborted with HTTP2 error error_code=FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR(
693838	3-Major		Adaptive monitor feature does not mark pool member down when hard limit set on UDP monitors
691806-3	3-Major	K61815412	RFC 793 - behavior receiving FIN/ACK in SYN-RECEIVED state
688553-1	3-Major		SASP GWM monitor may not mark member UP as expected
685615-5	3-Major	K24447043	Incorrect source mac for TCP Reset with vlangroup for host traffic
681757-1	3-Major	K32521651	Upgraded volume may fail to load if a Local Traffic Policy uses the forward parameter 'member'
678872-2	3-Major		Inconsistent behavior for virtual-address and selfip on the same ip-address
677525-3	3-Major		Translucent VLAN group may use unexpected source MAC address
676914-1	3-Major		The SSL Session Cache can grow indefinitely if the traffic group is changed.
676828-2	3-Major	K09012436	Host IPv6 traffic is generated even when ipv6.enabled is false
676355-2	3-Major		DTLS retransmission does not comply with RFC in certain resumed SSL session
675212-3	3-Major		The BIG-IP system incorrectly allows clients through as part of SSL Client Certificate Authentication
673052-2	3-Major		On i-Series platforms, HTTP/2 is limited to 10 streams
671337-1	3-Major		NetHSM DNSSEC key creation can attempt to change the SELinux label on a file
668196-2	3-Major		Connection limit continues to be enforced with least-connections and pool member flap, member remains down
668006-1	3-Major	K12015701	Suspended 'after' command leads to assertion if there are multiple pending events
667707-2	3-Major		LTM policy associations with virtual servers are not ConfigSynced correctly
659519-1	3-Major	K42400554	Non-default header-table-size setting on HTTP2 profiles may cause issues
657883-2	3-Major	K34442339	tmm cache resolver should not cache response with TTL=0
657626-2	3-Major		User with role 'Manager' cannot delete/publish LTM policy.
651541-2	3-Major	K83955631	Changes to the HTTP profile do not trigger validation for virtual servers using that profile
636289-2	3-Major		Fixed a memory issue while handling TCP::congestion iRule
633691-4	3-Major		HTTP transaction may not finish gracefully due to TCP connection is closed by RST
624846-1	3-Major		TCP Fast Open does not work for Responses < 1 MSS
604838-1	3-Major		TCP Analytics reports incorrectly reports entities as "Aggregated"
595281-1	3-Major		TCP Analytics reports huge goodput numbers
570277-1	3-Major	K16044231	SafeNet client not able to establish session to all HSMs on all blades.
367226-4	3-Major		Outgoing RIP advertisements may have incorrect source port
251162-3	3-Major		The error message 'HTTP header exceeded maximum allowed size' may list the wrong profile name
248914-4	3-Major		ARP replies from BIG-IP on a translucent vlangroup use the wrong source MAC address
713533-3	4-Minor		list self-ip with queries does not work
708249-4	4-Minor		nitrox_diag utility generates QKView files with 5 MB maximum file size limit
700433-2	4-Minor	K10870739	Memory leak when attaching an LTM policy to a virtual server
685467-2	4-Minor	K12933087	Certain header manipulations in HTTP profile may result in losing connection.
678801-2	4-Minor		WS::enabled returned empty string
677958-2	4-Minor		WS::frame prepend and WS::frame append do not insert string in the right place.
645729-1	4-Minor		SSL connection is not mirrored if ssl session cache is cleared and resume attempted
639970-3	4-Minor		GUI - Client SSL profile certificate extensions names switch to numbers in case of validation error
627764-2	4-Minor		Prevent sending a 2nd RST for a TCP connection
627695-2	4-Minor		[netHSM SafeNet] The 'Yes' and 'No' options to proceed or cancel the unisntall during "safenet-sync.sh -u " are not operational
621379-2	4-Minor		TCP Lossfilter not enforced after iRule changes TCP settings
618024-2	4-Minor		software switched platforms accept traffic on lacp trunks even when the trunk is down
604272-1	4-Minor		SMTPS profile connections_current stat does not reflect actual connection count.
523814-3	4-Minor		When iRule or Web-Acceleration profile demotes HTTP request from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/1.0, OneConnect may not pool serverside connections
522302-2	4-Minor		TCP Receive Window error messages are inconsistent on UI
495242-3	4-Minor		mcpd log messages: Failed to unpublish LOIPC object

Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
713066-3	2-Critical	K10620131	Connection failure during DNS lookup to disabled nameserver can crash TMM
707310-1	2-Critical		DNSSEC Signed Zone Transfers of Large Zones Can Be Incomplete (missing NSEC3s and RRSIGs)
706128-1	3-Major		DNSSEC Signed Zone Transfers Can Leak Memory
705503-1	3-Major		Context leaked from iRule DNS lookup
680069-3	3-Major	K81834254	zxfrd core during transfer while network failure and DNS server removed from DNS zone config★
675539-1	3-Major		Inter-system communications targeted at a Management IP address might not work in some cases.
672491-2	3-Major	K10990182	net resolver uses internal IP as source if matching wildcard forwarding virtual server
660263-4	3-Major		DNS transparent cache message and RR set activity counters not incrementing
653775-3	3-Major	K05397641	Ampersand (&) in GTM synchronization group name causes synchronization failure.
643813-2	3-Major	K32906881	ZoneRunner does not properly process $ORIGIN directives
637227-4	3-Major	K60414305	DNS Validating Resolver produces inconsistent results with DNS64 configurations.
629421-1	3-Major		Big3d memory leak when adding/removing Wide IPs in a GTM sync pair.
609527-2	3-Major		DNS cache local zone not properly copying recursion desired (RD) flag in response
602300-1	3-Major		Zone Runner entries cannot be modified when sys DNS starts with IPv6 address
669262-2	4-Minor	K91122850	[GUI][ZoneRunner] reverse zones should be treated case insensitive when creating resource record
638170-1	4-Minor	K36455356	Pagination broken or missing while viewing pool statistics for GTM wideip
605537-5	4-Minor	K03997964	Error when resetting statistics on GSLB Pool Members

Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
639767-2	2-Critical		Policy with Session Awareness Statuses may fail to export
606983-3	2-Critical		ASM errors during policy import
580862-1	2-Critical		Policy disabled after enabled with apply-policy via REST, asm-sync removal fixes
712362-1	3-Major		ASM stalls WebSocket frames after legitimate websockets handshake with 101 status code, but without 'Switching Protocols' reason phrase
710327-3	3-Major		Remote logger message is truncated at NULL character.
707888	3-Major		Some ASM operations delayed due to scheduled ASU update
707147-2	3-Major		High CPU consumed by asm_config_server_rpc_handler_async.pl
706845-1	3-Major		False positive illegal multipart violation
704143-2	3-Major		BD memory leak
700726-1	3-Major		Search engine list was updated
691897-1	3-Major		Names of the modified cookies do not appear in the event log
687759-2	3-Major		bd crash
686765-1	3-Major		Database cleaning failure may allow MySQL space to fill the disk entirely
683241-3	3-Major	K70517410	Improve CSRF token handling
674527-1	3-Major		TCL error in ltm log when server closes connection while ASM irules are running
663396-1	3-Major		Requests using GET method are illegal after upgrade from 11.6.2
654996-1	3-Major	K50345236	Closed connections remains in memory
665470-1	4-Minor		Failed to load sample requests on the Traffic Learning page with VIOL_MALICIOUS_IP viol is raised
700812-2	5-Cosmetic		asmrepro recognizes a BIG-IP version of 13.1.0.1 as 13.1.0 and fails to load a qkview

Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
716747-4	2-Critical		TMM core with SWG Transparent
715250-2	2-Critical		TMM crash when RPC resumes TCL event ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED
714879-1	2-Critical		APM CRLDP Auth passes all certs
681850-1	2-Critical		APMD process may fail to initialize on start either after upgrade or after adding certain configurations
671373-2	2-Critical		urldb core seen
632798-2	2-Critical		Double-free may occur if Access initialization fails
720695-2	3-Major		Export then import of Profile/Policy with advanced customization is failing
720030-3	3-Major		Enable EDNS flag for internal Kerberos DNS SRV queries
718208-1	3-Major		Unable to install Network Access plugin on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 w/ Firefox v52 ESR using SUDO
715207-2	3-Major		coapi errors while modifying per-request policy in VPE
714542-1	3-Major		'Always Connected Mode' text is missing in EdgeClient tray
712924	3-Major		In VPE SecurID servers list are not being displayed in SecurID authentication dialogue
712857-1	3-Major		SWG-Explicit rejects large POST bodies during policy evaluation
706374-2	3-Major		[Kerberos SSO] krb5 library need to use threadsafe res_ninit, res_nsearch instead of res_init, res_search
704524-2	3-Major		[Kerberos SSO] Support for EDNS for kerberos DNS SRV queries
684937-6	3-Major		[KERBEROS SSO] Performance of LRU cache for Kerberos tickets drops gradually with the number of users
683113-6	3-Major		[KERBEROS SSO][KRB5] The performance of memory type Kerberos ticket cache in krb5 library drops gradually with the number of users
658664-3	3-Major	K21390304	VPN connection drops when 'prohibit routing table change' is enabled
609793-1	3-Major		HTTP header modify agent logs error message as it is disabled since it cannot modify headers/cookies in HTTP Response.
602429-1	3-Major		DNS suffix is not restored after disconnecting Network Access
543344-3	3-Major		ACCESS iRule commands do not work reliably in HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST event
516736-1	3-Major		URLs with backslashes in the path may not be handled correctly in Portal Access

Service Provider Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
703515-5	2-Critical	K44933323	MRF SIP LB - Message corruption when using custom persistence key
698338-2	2-Critical		Potential core in MRF occurs when pending egress messages are queued and an iRule error aborts the connection
685708-3	2-Critical		Routing via iRule to a host without providing a transport from a transport-config created connection cores
669739-1	2-Critical	K71963740	Potential core when using MRF SIP with SCTP
659173-1	2-Critical	K76352741	Diameter Message Length Limit Changed from 1024 to 4096 Bytes
700571-2	3-Major		SIP MR profile, setting incorrect branch param for CANCEL to INVITE
696049-3	3-Major	K55660303	High CPU load on generic message if multiple responses arrive while asynchronous Tcl command is running
688942-3	3-Major	K82601533	ICAP: Chunk parser performs poorly with very large chunk
679114-2	3-Major	K92585400	Persistence record expires early if an error is returned for a BYE command
674747-2	3-Major	K30837366	sipdb cannot delete custom bidirectional persistence entries.
673814-4	3-Major	K37822302	Custom bidirectional persistence entries are not updated to the session timeout
642298-3	3-Major		Unable to create a bidirectional custom persistence record in MRF SIP
640384-3	3-Major		New iRule options for MR::message route command
620759-4	3-Major		Persist timeout value gets truncated when added to the branch parameter.
632658-4	4-Minor		Enable SIP::persist command to operate during SIP_RESPONSE event
617690-4	4-Minor		enable SIP::respond iRule command to operate during MR_FAILED event

Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
677473-1	2-Critical		MCPD core is generated on multiple add/remove of Mgmt-Rules
666112-1	3-Major	K53708490	TMM 'DoS Layer 7' memory leak during config load
663770-2	3-Major	K04025134	AFM rules are bypassed / ignored when traffic is internally forwarded to a redirected virtual server

Policy Enforcement Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
699531-3	2-Critical		Potential TMM crash due to incorrect number of attributes in a PEM iRule command
696294-3	2-Critical		TMM core may be seen when using Application reporting with flow filter in PEM
715090	3-Major		PEM policy actions obtained via a PCRF are not applied for traffic generated subscribers
711570-1	3-Major		PEM iRule subscriber policy name query using subscriber ID, may not return applied policies
711093-2	3-Major		PEM sessions may stay in marked_for_delete state with Gx reporting and Gy enabled
709610-1	3-Major		Subscriber session creation via PEM may fail due to a RADIUS-message-triggered race condition in PEM
697718-3	3-Major		Increase PEM HSL reporting buffer size to 4K.
648802-3	3-Major		Required custom AVPs are not included in an RAA when reporting an error.

Carrier-Grade NAT Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
667662-1	3-Major	K06579313	Autolasthop does not work for PPTP-GRE traffic.

Device Management Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
625114-2	2-Critical	K08062851	Internal sync-change conflict after update to local users table

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.5 that are included in this release

Functional Change Fixes

None

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
708956	1-Blocking		During system boots up, error message displays: 'Dataplane INOPERABLE - only 1 HSBes found on this platform'
696732	2-Critical	K54431534	tmm may crash in a compression provider
689730-2	3-Major		Software installations from v13.1.0 might fail★
674455-7	3-Major		Serial console baud rate setting lost after running 'tmidiag -r' in Maintenance OS
680388-2	4-Minor		f5optics should not show function name in non-debug log messages
653759-2	4-Minor		Chassis Variant number is not specified in C2200/C2400 chassis after a firmware update★

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
662078-1	2-Critical		Occasionally connections are dropped in response to timing errors
694778-2	3-Major		Certain Intel Crypto HW fails to decrypt data if the given output buffer size differs from RSA private key size
686631-1	3-Major		Deselect a compression provider at the end of a job and reselect a provider for a new job
679494-2	3-Major		Change the default compression strategy to speed
632824-1	3-Major	K00722715	SSL TPS limit can be reached if the system clock is adjusted
495443-10	3-Major		ECDH negotiation failures logged as critical errors.
679496-1	4-Minor		Add 'comp_req' to the output of 'tmctl compress'

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.4 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
695901-2	CVE-2018-5513	K46940010	TMM may crash when processing ProxySSL data
693312-2	CVE-2018-5518	K03165684	vCMPd may crash when processing bridged network traffic
688516-2	CVE-2018-5518	K03165684	vCMPd may crash when processing bridged network traffic
701359-2	CVE-2017-3145	K08613310	BIND vulnerability CVE-2017-3145
688009-5	CVE-2018-5519	K46121888	Appliance Mode TMSH hardening
615269-1	CVE-2016-2183	K13167034	CVE-2016-2183: AFM SSH Proxy Vulnerability

Functional Change Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
680850-1	3-Major		Setting zxfrd log level to debug can cause AXFR and/or IXFR failures due to high CPU and disk usage.
570570-5	3-Major		Default crypto failure action is now 'go-offline-downlinks'.

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
711547	1-Blocking		Update cipher support for Common Criteria compliance
708054-3	2-Critical		Web Acceleration: TMM may crash on very large HTML files with conditional comments
706305-2	2-Critical		bgpd may crash with overlapping aggregate addresses and extended-asn-cap enabled
703761-1	2-Critical		Disable DSA keys for public-key and host-based authentication in Common Criteria mode
677937-1	2-Critical	K41517253	APM tunnel and IPsec over IPsec tunnel rejects isession-SYN connect packets
673484-1	2-Critical	K85405312	IKEv2 does not support NON_FIRST_FRAGMENTS_ALSO
664549-2	2-Critical	K55105132	TMM restart while processing rewrite filter
599423-1	2-Critical	K24584925	merged cores and restarts
583111-1	2-Critical		BGP activated for IPv4 address family even when 'no bgp default ipv4-unicast' is configured
701626-1	3-Major		GUI resets custom Certificate Key Chain in child client SSL profile
686029-1	3-Major		A VLAN delete can result in unrelated VLAN FDB entries being flushed on shared VLAN member interfaces
664737-2	3-Major		Do not reboot on ctrl-alt-del
655005-1	3-Major	K23355841	"Inherit traffic group from current partition / path" virtual-address setting is not synchronized during an incremental sync
646890-1	3-Major	K12068427	IKEv1 auth alg for ike-phase2-auth-algorithm sha256, sha384, and sha512
635703-1	3-Major	K14508857	Interface description may cause some interface level commands to be removed
614486-1	3-Major		BGP community lower bytes of zero is not allowed to be set in route-map
612721-4	3-Major		FIPS: .exp keys cannot be imported when the local source directory contains .key file
609967-2	3-Major	K55424912	qkview missing some HugePage memory data
586412-2	3-Major		BGP peer-group members address-family configuration not saved to configuration
583108-1	3-Major		Zebos issue: No neighbor x.x.x.x activate in address-family IPv6 lost on reboot/restart.
581101-1	3-Major		non-admin user running list cmd: can't get object count
557155-8	3-Major	K33044393	BIG-IP Virtual Edition becomes completely unresponsive under very heavy load.
421797-3	3-Major		ePVA continues to accelerate IP Forwarding VS traffic even in Standby
651413-2	4-Minor	K34042229	tmsh list ltm node does not return an error when node does not exist
598437-1	4-Minor		SNMP process monitoring is incorrect for tmm and bigd

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
706631	2-Critical		A remote TLS server certificate with a bad Subject Alternative Name should be rejected when Common Criteria mode is licensed and configured.
705611-1	2-Critical		The TMM may crash when under load when configuration changes occur when the HTTP/2 profile is used
704666-2	2-Critical		memory corruption can occur when using certain certificates
701202-1	2-Critical	K35023432	SSL memory corruption
700862-2	2-Critical	K15130240	tmm SIGFPE 'valid node'
700393-2	2-Critical		Under certain circumstances a stale http2 stream can cause a tmm crash
685254-1	2-Critical	K14013100	RAM Cache Exceeding Watchdog Timeout in Header Field Search
678416-2	2-Critical		Some tmm/umem_usage_stat counters may be incorrect under memory pressure.
676028-2	2-Critical	K09689143	SSL forward proxy bypass may fail to release memory used for ssl_hs instances
673951-4	2-Critical	K56466330	Memory leak when using HTTP2 profile
670814-2	2-Critical		Wrong SE Linux label breaks nethsm DNSSEC keys
665185-1	2-Critical	K20994524	SSL handshake reference is not dropped if forward proxy certificate lookup failed
657463-2	2-Critical		SSL sends HUDEVT_SENT to TCP in wrong state which causes HTTP disconnect the handshake.
648320-3	2-Critical		Downloading via APM tunnels could experience performance downgrade.
647757-2	2-Critical	K96395052	RATE-SHAPER:Fred not properly initialized may halt traffic
636096-1	2-Critical		Nitrox PX chips may temporarily fail
613088-3	2-Critical		pkcs11d thread has session initialization problem.
452283-2	2-Critical		An MPTCP connection that receives an MP_FASTCLOSE might not clean up its flows
705794-1	3-Major		Under certain circumstances a stale http2 stream can cause a tmm crash
690042-3	3-Major	K43412307	Potential Tcl leak during iRule suspend operation
689449-3	3-Major		Some flows may remain indefinitely in memory with spdy/http2 and http fallback-host configured
687205-3	3-Major		Delivery of HUDEVT_SENT messages at shutdown by SSL may cause tmm restart
686972-1	3-Major		The change of APM log settings will reset the SSL session cache.
686395	3-Major		With DTLS version1, when client hello uses version1.2, handshake shall proceed
683697-3	3-Major	K00647240	SASP monitor may use the same UID for multiple HA device group members
677962-3	3-Major		Invalid use of SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE
677457	3-Major	K13036194	HTTP/2 Gateway appends semicolon when a request has one or more cookies
677400-3	3-Major	K82502883	pimd daemon may exit on failover
673399-1	3-Major		HTTP request dropped after a 401 exchange when a Websockets profile is attached to virtual server.
665652-2	3-Major	K41193475	Multicast traffic not forwarded to members of VLAN group
664528-1	3-Major	K53282793	SSL record can be larger than maximum fragment size (16384 bytes)
663551-1	3-Major	K14942957	SERVERSSL_DATA is not triggered when iRule issues [SSL::collect] in the SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE event
662911-2	3-Major	K93119070	SASP monitor uses same UID for all vCMP guests in a chassis or appliance
654368-7	3-Major		ClientSSL/ServerSSL profile does not report an error when a certain invalid CRL is associated with it when authentication is set to require
654086-3	3-Major		Incorrect handling of HTTP2 data frames larger than minimal frame size
653976-2	3-Major		SSL handshake fails if server certificate contains multiple CommonNames
651901-2	3-Major		Removed unnecessary ASSERTs in MPTCP code
640369-2	3-Major		TMM may incorrectly respond to ICMPv6 echo via auto-lasthop when disabled on the vlan
633333-3	3-Major		During an MPTCP connection, the serverside connection will occasionally be aborted before all data has been sent
619844-2	3-Major		Packet leak if reject command is used in FLOW_INIT rule
611691-5	3-Major		Packet payload ignored when DSS option contains DATA_FIN
608991-7	3-Major		BIG-IP retransmits SYN/ACK on a subflow after an MPTCP connection is closed
605480-4	3-Major		BIG-IP sends MP_FASTCLOSE after completing active close of MPTCP connection
604880-4	3-Major		tmm assert "valid pcb" in tcp.c
604549-7	3-Major		MPTCP connection not closed properly when the segment with DATA_FIN also DATA_ACKs data
592731-1	3-Major	K34220124	Default value of device-request timeout factor might cause false alert: Hardware Error ni3-crypto request queue stuck.
653746-2	4-Minor	K83324551	Unable to display detailed CPU graphs if the number of CPU is too large
569814-2	4-Minor	K30240351	iRule "nexthop IP_ADDR" rejected by validator

Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
710424-3	2-Critical	K00874337	Possible SIGSEGV in GTMD when GTM persistence is enabled.
699135-2	2-Critical		tmm cores with SIGSEGV in dns_rebuild_response while using host command for not A/AAAA wideip
691287-3	2-Critical		tmm crashes on iRule with GTM pool command
682335-3	2-Critical		TMM can establish multiple connections to the same gtmd
699339-1	3-Major	K24634702	Geolocation upgrade files fail to replicate to secondary blades
696808-3	3-Major	K35353213	Disabling a single pool member removes all GTM persistence records
687128-3	3-Major		gtm::host iRule validation for ipv4 and ipv6 addresses
679149-2	3-Major		TMM may crash or LB::server returns unexpected result due to reused lb_result->pmbr[0]
663310-3	3-Major		named reports "file format mismatch" when upgrading to versions with Bind 9.9.X versions for text slave zone files★
619158-1	3-Major		iRule DNS request with trailing dot times out with empty response
595293-4	3-Major		Deleting GTM links could cause gtm_add to fail on new devices.
603758-1	4-Minor		Big3D security hardening

Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
679221-1	1-Blocking		APMD may generate core file or appears locked up after APM configuration changed
702278-3	2-Critical		Potential XSS security exposure on APM logon page.
678715-1	2-Critical		Large volume of query result update to SessionDB fails and locks down ApmD
712315-1	3-Major		LDAP and AD Group Resource Assign are not displaying Static ACLs correctly
710211	3-Major		Cannot edit Terminals of Macro if one or more Macrocalls point to a given Macro.
704580-3	3-Major		apmd service may restart when BIG-IP is used as SAML SP while processing response from SAML IdP
702490-4	3-Major		Windows Credential Reuse feature may not work
702487-1	3-Major		AD/LDAP admins with spaces in names are not supported
700780-4	3-Major		F5 DNS Relay Proxy service now warns about and clears truncated flag in proxied DNS responses
699267-1	3-Major		LDAP Query may fail to resolve nested groups
681415-1	3-Major		Copying of profile with advanced customization or images might fail
675775-2	3-Major		TMM crashes inside dynamic ACL building session db callback
672250-1	3-Major		SessionDB update from ApmD with large volume fails
671149-3	3-Major		Captive portal login page is not rendered until it is refreshed
669459-2	3-Major		Efect of bad connection handle between APMD and memcachd
639283-4	3-Major		Custom Dialer/Windows logon integration doesn't work against Virtual Server with untrusted SSL certificate
569542-1	3-Major		After upgrade, user cannot upload APM Sandbox hosted-content file in a partition existing before upgrade★
667237-3	4-Minor		Edge Client logs the routing and IP tables repeatedly

Wan Optimization Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
673463-2	2-Critical	K68275280	SDD v3 symmetric deduplication may start performing poorly after a failover event
685693	3-Major		APM AppTunnels memory leak

Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
702738	3-Major	K32181540	Tmm might crash activating new blob when changing firewall rules
528499-3	4-Minor		AFM address lists are not sorted while trying to create a new rule.

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.3 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
706086-1	CVE-2018-5515	K62750376	PAM RADIUS authentication subsystem hardening
704490	CVE-2017-5754	K91229003	CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown)
704483	CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-9074 CVE-2017-7542 CVE-2017-11176	K91229003	CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre Variant 1)

Functional Change Fixes

None

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
707226-2	1-Blocking		DB variables to disable CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown/PTI mitigations
704804-2	3-Major		The NAS-IP-Address in RADIUS remote authentication is unexpectedly set to the loopback address
704733-2	3-Major		NAS-IP-Address will be sent with the bytes backwards
703869-1	3-Major		Waagent updated to 2.2.21
701249-2	3-Major		RADIUS authentication requests erroneously specify NAS-IP-Address of 127.0.0.1
699147	3-Major		Hourly billed cloud images are now pre-licensed
687098	3-Major		IPv6 RADIUS servers not supported for remote authentication
674288-2	3-Major	K62223225	FQDN nodes - monitor attribute doesn't reliably show in GUI
649465-1	3-Major		SELinux warning messages regarding nsm daemon

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
695117	2-Critical	K30081842	bigd cores and sends corrupted MCP messages with many FQDN nodes
668883	2-Critical		FQDN pool member status may become out-of-sync when enabled/disabled through GUI
707675	3-Major		FQDN nodes or pool members flap when DNS response received
701609	3-Major		Static member of pool with FQDN members may revert to user-disabled after being re-enabled
685344-2	3-Major		Monitor 'min 1 of' not working as expected with FQDN nodes/members
673075-1	3-Major		Reduced Issues for Monitors configured with FQDN
671228-1	3-Major		Multiple FQDN ephemeral nodes may be created with autopopulate disabled
667560-3	3-Major	K69205908	FQDN nodes: Pool members can become unknown (blue) after monitor configuration is changed
573602-1	3-Major		FQDN pool members not shown by tmsh show ltm monitor
573302-1	3-Major		FQDN pool member remains in disabled state after removing monitor
571095-1	3-Major		Monitor probing to pool member stops after FQDN pool member with same IP address is deleted
467709-1	4-Minor		FQDN nodes or pool members show Green (Available) when DNS responds with NXDOMAIN
699262-2	5-Cosmetic		FQDN pool member status remains in 'checking' state after full config sync

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.2 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
700556-2	CVE-2018-5504	K11718033	TMM may crash when processing WebSockets data
698080-1	CVE-2018-5503	K54562183	TMM may consume excessive resources when processing with PEM
691504-3	CVE-2018-5503	K54562183	PEM content insertion in a compressed response may cause a crash.
677193-2	CVE-2017-6154	K38243073	ASM BD Daemon Crash.
674189	CVE-2016-0718	K52320548	iControl-SOAP exposed to CVE-2016-0718 in Expat 2.2.0
673078-1	CVE-2017-6150	K62712037	TMM may crash when processing FastL4 traffic
670822-3	CVE-2017-6148	K55225440	TMM may crash when processing SOCKS data
668501-2	CVE-2017-6151	K07369970	HTTP2 does not handle some URIs correctly
630446-1	CVE-2016-0718	K52320548	Expat vulnerability CVE-2016-0718
621233-1	CVE-2018-5509	K49440608	FastL4 and HTTP profile or hash persistence with ip-protocol not set to TCP can crash tmm
699455-3	CVE-2018-5523	K50254952	SAML export does not follow best practices
699346-2	CVE-2018-5524	K53931245	NetHSM capacity reduces when handling errors
694274-2	CVE-2017-3167 CVE-2017-3169 CVE-2017-7679 CVE-2017-9788 CVE-2017-9798	K23565223	[RHSA-2017:3195-01] Important: httpd security update - EL6.7
688625-2	CVE-2017-11628	K75543432	PHP Vulnerability CVE-2017-11628
688011-5	CVE-2018-5520	K02043709	Dig utility does not apply best practices
676457-3	CVE-2017-6153	K52167636	TMM may consume excessive resource when processing compressed data
671638-4	CVE-2018-5500	K33211839	TMM crash when load-balancing mptcp traffic
670405-4	CVE-2017-1000366	K20486351	K20486351: glibc vulnerability CVE-2017-1000366:
662850-2	CVE-2015-2716	K50459349	Expat XML library vulnerability CVE-2015-2716
662663-6	CVE-2018-5507	K52521791	Decryption failure Nitrox platforms in vCMP mode
652848-2	CVE-2018-5501	K44200194	TCP DNS profile may impact performance
643375-1	CVE-2018-5508	K10329515	TMM may crash when processing compressed data
631204-1	CVE-2018-5521	K23124150	GeoIP lookups incorrectly parse IP addresses
617273-7	CVE-2016-5300	K70938105	Expat XML library vulnerability CVE-2016-5300
593139-9	CVE-2014-9761	K31211252	glibc vulnerability CVE-2014-9761
572272-5	CVE-2018-5506	K65355492	BIG-IP - Anonymous Certificate ID Enumeration
673607-2	CVE-2017-3169	K83043359	Apache CVE-2017-3169
672667-4	CVE-2017-7679	K75429050	CVE-2017-7679: Apache vulnerability
605579-8	CVE-2012-6702	K65460334	iControl-SOAP expat client library is subjected to entropy attack
578983-4	CVE-2015-8778	K51079478	glibc: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r
684033-1	CVE-2017-9798	K70084351	CVE-2017-9798 : Apache Vulnerability (OptionsBleed)

Functional Change Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
686389-3	3-Major		APM does not honor per-farm HTML5 client disabling at the View Connection Server
685020-1	3-Major		Enhancement to SessionDB provides timeout
653772-2	3-Major		fastL4 fails to evict flows from the ePVA
639505-3	3-Major		BGP may not send all configured aggregate routes
587107-3	3-Major		Allow iQuery to negotiate up to version TLS1.2

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
667148-1	1-Blocking	K02500042	Config load or upgrade can fail when loading GTM objects from a non-/Common partition
689577-1	2-Critical	K45800333	ospf6d may crash when processing specific LSAs
678833	2-Critical		IPv6 prefix SPDAG causes packet drop
676203-1	2-Critical		Inter-blade mpi connection fails, does not recover, and eventually all memory consumed.
667405-2	2-Critical	K61251939	Fragemented IPsec encrypted packets with fragmented original payloads may cause memory leak in the TMM.
667404-2	2-Critical	K77576404	Fragmented IP over IPsec tunnels might capture mcp flows and provoke restarts
651362	2-Critical		eventd crashes during boot
631700-1	2-Critical	K72453283	sod may kill bcm56xxd under heavy load
617733-1	2-Critical		Error message: subscriber id response; Subscription not found
580753-1	2-Critical	K82583534	eventd might core on transition to secondary.
563661-2	2-Critical		Datastor may crash
694696-3	3-Major		On multiblade Viprion, creating a new traffic-group causes the device to go Offline
687658-2	3-Major		Monitor operations in transaction will cause it to stay unchecked
687353-3	3-Major	K35595105	Qkview truncates tmstat snapshot files
682213-3	3-Major	K31623549	TLS v1.2 support in IP reputation daemon
679480-1	3-Major		User able to create node when an ephemeral with the same IP already exists
674320-2	3-Major	K11357182	Syncing a large number of folders can prevent the configuration getting saved on the peer systems
672815-2	3-Major		Incorrect disaggregation on VIPRION B4200 blades
671082-1	3-Major	K85168072	snmpd constantly restarting
669888-2	3-Major		No distinction between IPv4 addresses and IPv6 subnet ::ffff:0:0/96
669462-1	3-Major		Error adding /Common/WideIPs as members to GTM Pool in non-Common partition
669415-1	3-Major		Flow eviction for hardware-accelerated flow might fail
664894-1	3-Major	K11070206	PEM sessions lost when new blade is inserted in chassis
664057-2	3-Major		Upgrading GTM from pre-12.0.0 to post 12.0.0 no longer removes WideIPs without pools attached if they have an iRule attached
664017-3	3-Major		OCSP may reject valid responses
652968-2	3-Major	K88825548	IKEv2 PFS CREATE_CHILD_SA in rekey does not negotiate new keys
645723-2	3-Major	K74371937	Dynamic routing update can delete admin ip route from the kernel
632366-1	3-Major		Prevent a spurious Broadcom switch driver failure.
631316	3-Major	K62532020	Unable to load config with client-SSL profile error★
626990-1	3-Major	K64915164	restjavad logs flooded with messages from ChildWrapper
624362-1	3-Major		VCMP guest /shared file system growth due to /shared/tmp/guestagentd.out file
623803-2	3-Major	K12921801	General DB error when select Profiles: Protocol: SCTP profile. Error due to 'read access denied type Virtual Address profile SCTP'
610122-1	3-Major		Hotfix installation fails: can't create /service/snmpd/run★
598724-1	3-Major		Abandoned indefinite lifetime SessionDB entries on STANDBY devices.
586887-2	3-Major	K25883308	SCTP tmm crash with virtual server destination.
579760-3	3-Major	K55703840	HSL::send may fail to resume after log server pool member goes down/up
471237-2	3-Major	K12155235	BIG-IP VE instances do not work with an encrypted disk in AWS.
699281	4-Minor		Version format of hypervisor bundle matches Version format of ISO
669255-2	4-Minor	K20100613	An enabled sFlow receiver can cause poor TMM performance on certain BIG-IP platforms
660239-3	4-Minor		When accessing the dashboard, invalid HTTP headers may be present
655085-2	4-Minor		While one chassis in a DSC is being rebooted, other members report spurious HA Group configuration errors
613275-2	4-Minor	K62581339	SNMP get/MIB walk returns incorrect speed for sysInterfaceMediaMaxSpeed and sysInterfaceMediaActiveSpeed when the interface is not up
601168-1	4-Minor		Incorrect virtual server CPU utilization may be observed.
509980-1	4-Minor		Spurious HA group configuration errors can be displayed during reboot of other DSC cluster members.

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
692970-3	2-Critical		Using UDP port 67 for purposes other than DHCP might cause TMM to crash
687603-1	2-Critical	K36243347	tmsh query for dns records may cause tmm to crash
686228-3	2-Critical	K23243525	TMM may crash in some circumstances with VLAN failsafe
682682-3	2-Critical		tmm asserts on a virtual server-to-virtual server connection
681175-1	2-Critical	K32153360	TMM may crash during routing updates
676982-2	2-Critical	K21958352	Active connection count increases over time, long after connections expire
674576-4	2-Critical		Outage may occur with VIP-VIP configurations
665924-1	2-Critical	K24847056	The HTTP2 and SPDY filters may cause a TMM crash in complicated scenarios
665732-2	2-Critical		FastHTTP may crash when receiving a fragmented IP packet
664461-3	2-Critical	K16804728	Replacing HTTP payload can cause tmm restart
658989-2	2-Critical		Memory leak when connection terminates in iRule process
639039-4	2-Critical	K33754014	Changing the BIG-IP host name causes tmrouted to restart the dynamic routing daemons
614702-1	2-Critical	K24172560	Race condition when using SSL Orchestrator can cause TMM to core
704073-3	3-Major	K24233427	Repeated 'bad transition' OOPS logging may appear in /var/log/ltm and /var/log/tmm
698000-1	3-Major	K04473510	Connections may stop passing traffic after a route update
689089-3	3-Major		VIPRION cluster IP reverted to 'default' (192.168.1.246) following unexpected reboot
686307-1	3-Major	K10665315	Monitor Escaping is not changed when upgrading from 11.6.x to 12.x and later
686305-2	3-Major		TMM may crash while processing SSL forward proxy traffic
686065-1	3-Major		RESOLV::lookup iRule command can trigger crash with slow resolver
685955	3-Major		TMM hud_message_ctx leak
685110-3	3-Major		With a non-LTM license (ASM, APM, etc.), ephemeral nodes will not be created for FQDN nodes/pool members.
683683-1	3-Major		ASN1::encode returns wrong binary data
682104-1	3-Major		HTTP PSM leaks memory when looking up evasion descriptions
680755-1	3-Major	K27015502	max-request enforcement no longer works outside of OneConnect
673621-2	3-Major		Chain certificate is still being sent to the client, despite both ca-file and chain certificate being removed from the clientssl profile.
670816-2	3-Major	K44519487	HTTP/HTTPS/TCP Monitor response code for 'last fail reason' can include extra characters
669974-1	3-Major	K90395411	Encoding binary data using ASN1::encode may truncate result
668522-1	3-Major		bigd might try to read from a file descriptor that is not ready for read
668419-1	3-Major	K53322151	ClientHello sent in multiple packets results in TCP connection close
666315	3-Major		Global SNAT sets TTL to 255 instead of decrementing
666160-1	3-Major	K63132146	L7 Policy reconfiguration causes a slow memory leak
665022-1	3-Major		Rateshaper stalls when TSO packet length exceeds max ceiling.
664769-1	3-Major		TMM may restart when using SOCKS profile and an iRule
663821-3	3-Major	K41344010	SNAT Stats may not include port FTP traffic
661881-2	3-Major		Memory and performance issues when using certain ASN.1 decoding formats in iRules
659648-2	3-Major		LTM Policy rule name migration doesn't properly handle whitespace
657795-1	3-Major	K51498984	Possible performance impact on some SSL connections
655432-7	3-Major	K85522235	SSL renegotiation failed intermittently with AES-GCM cipher
651681-4	3-Major		Orphaned bigd instances may exist (within multi-process bigd)
651135-4	3-Major	K41685444	LTM Policy error when rule names contain slash (/) character★
645220-2	3-Major		bigd identified as username "(user %-P)" or "(user %-S)" in mcpd debug logs
645197-3	3-Major		Monitors receiving unique HTTP "success" response codes may stop monitoring after status change
640565-1	3-Major	K11564859	Incorrect packet size sent to clone pool member
636149-3	3-Major		Multiple monitor response codes to single monitor probe failure
628721-1	3-Major		In rare conditions, DNS cache resolver outbound TCP connections fail to expire.
627926-1	3-Major	K21211001	Retrieving a server-side SSL session ID in iRules does not work
584865-1	3-Major		Primary slot mismatch after primary cluster member leaves and then rejoins the cluster
582487-2	3-Major	K22210514	'merged.method' set to 'slow_merge,' does not update system stats
574526-1	3-Major	K55542554	HTTP/2 and SPDY do not parse the path for the location/existence of the query parameter
573366-4	3-Major		parking command used in the nesting script of clientside and serverside command can cause tmm core
692095-3	4-Minor	K65311501	bigd logs monitor status unknown for FQDN Node/Pool Member
625892-2	4-Minor		Nagle Algorithm Not Fully Enforced with TSO
530877-7	4-Minor	K13887095	TCP profile option Verified Accept might cause iRule processing to run twice in very specific circumstances.

Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
692941-3	2-Critical		GTMD and TMM SIGSEGV when changing wide IP pool in GTMD
678861-3	2-Critical	K00426059	DNS:: namespace commands in procs cause upgrade failure when change from Link Controller license to other★
580537-1	2-Critical		The GeoIP update script geoip_update_data cannot be used to install City2 GeoIP data
562921-4	2-Critical		Cipher 3DES and iQuery encrypting traffic between BIG-IP systems
700527-1	3-Major		cmp-hash change can hang iRule DNS lookup
691498-1	3-Major		Connection failure during iRule DNS lookup can crash TMM
690166-3	3-Major		ZoneRunner create new stub zone when creating a SRV WIP with more subdomains
671326-2	3-Major	K81052338	DNS Cache debug logging might cause tmm to crash.
667469-1	3-Major	K35324588	Higher than expected CPU usage when using DNS Cache
665347-2	3-Major	K17060443	GTM listener object cannot be created via tmsh while in non-Common partition
636853-2	3-Major		Under some conditions, a change in the order of GTM topology records does not take effect.
621374-1	3-Major		"abbrev" argument in "whereis" iRule returns nothing
487144-2	3-Major		tmm intermittently reports that it cannot find FIPS key

Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
701327-1	2-Critical		failed configuration deletion may cause unwanted bd exit
699720-3	2-Critical		ASM crash when configuring remote logger for WebSocket traffic with response-logging:all
691670-3	2-Critical		Rare BD crash in a specific scenario
684312-2	2-Critical		During Apply Policy action, bd agent crashes, causing the machine to go Offline
681109-2	2-Critical	K46212485	BD crash in a specific scenario
679603-2	2-Critical	K15460886	bd core upon request, when profile has sensitive element configured.
678462-2	2-Critical		after chassis failover: asmlogd CPU 100% on secondary
678228-1	2-Critical	K27568142	Repeated Errors in ASM Sync
672301-2	2-Critical		ASM crashes when using a logout object configuration in ASM policy
662281-2	2-Critical		Inconsistencies in Automatic sync ASM Device Group
637252-1	2-Critical	K73107660	Rest worker becomes unreliable after processing a call that generated an error
633070-1	2-Critical		Sync Inconsistencies when using Autosync ASM Group between Chassis devices
631609-1	2-Critical		ASM Centralized Management Infrastructure Sync issues
614441-4	2-Critical	K04950182	False Positive for illegal method (GET)
611154-1	2-Critical		BD crash
599221-1	2-Critical		ASM Policy cannot be created in non-default partition via the Import Policy Task
576123-3	2-Critical	K23221623	ASM policies are created as inactive policies on the peer device
702946-2	3-Major		Added option to reset staging period for signatures
701841-1	3-Major		Unnecessary file recovery_db/conf.tar.gz consumes /var disk space
700564-2	3-Major		JavaScript errors shown when debugging a mobile device with ASM deviceID enabled
700330	3-Major		AJAX blocking page isn't shown when a webpage uses jQuery framework.
700143-1	3-Major		ASM Request Logs: Cannot delete second 10,000 records of filtered event log messages
698919-1	3-Major		Anti virus false positive detection on long XML uploads
697303-3	3-Major		BD crash
696265-3	3-Major		BD crash
694922-4	3-Major		ASM Auto-Sync Device Group Does Not Sync
691477-1	3-Major		ASM standby unit showing future date and high version count for ASM Device Group
685743-3	3-Major		When changing internal parameter 'request_buffer_size' in large request violations might not be reported
685207-2	3-Major		DoS client side challenge does not encode the Referer header.
683508-3	3-Major		WebSockets: umu memory leak of binary frames when remote logger is configured
682612	3-Major		Event Correlation is disabled on vCMP even though all the prerequisites are met.
679384-1	3-Major	K85153939	The policy builder is not getting updates about the newly added signatures.
678293-1	3-Major	K25066531	Uncleaned policy history files cause /var disk exhaustion
676416-2	3-Major		BD restart when switching FTP profiles
675232-3	3-Major		Cannot modify a newly created ASM policy within an iApp template implementation or TMSH CLI transaction
674494-1	3-Major	K77993010	BD memory leak on specific configuration and specific traffic
671675-1	3-Major		Centralized Management Infrastructure: asm_config_server restart on device group change
668184-1	3-Major		Huge values are shown in the AVR statistics for ASM violations
668181-2	3-Major		Policy automatic learning mode changes to manual after failover
667922	3-Major	K44692860	Alternative unicode encoding in JSON objects not being parsed correctly
666986-2	3-Major	K50320144	Filter by Support ID is not working in Request Log
663535-1	3-Major		Sending ASM cookies with "secure" attribute even without client-ssl profile
654925-1	3-Major	K25952033	Memory Leak in ASM Sync Listener Process
654873-2	3-Major		ASM Auto-Sync Device Group
619516-1	3-Major		Inconsistencies in Automatic sync ASM Device Group
605982-1	3-Major		Policy settings change during export/import
434821-1	3-Major		Remote logging of staged signatures and staged sets
694073-1	4-Minor		All signature update details are shown in 'View update history from previous BIG-IP versions' popup
655159-1	4-Minor	K84550544	Wrong XML profile name Request Log details for XML violation

Application Visibility and Reporting Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
658343-2	3-Major	K33043439	AVR tcp-analytics: per-host RTT average may show incorrect values
648242	3-Major	K73521040	Administrator users unable to access all partition via TMSH for AVR reports
582029-4	3-Major		AVR might report incorrect statistics when used together with other modules.
682105	4-Minor		Adding widget in Analytics Overview can cause measures list to empty out on Page change
649161-1	4-Minor	K42340304	AVR caching mechanism not working properly

Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
693739-3	2-Critical		VPN cannot be established on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 if full tunneling configuration is enabled
660711-1	2-Critical	K05265457	MCPd might crash when user trying to import a access policy
649234-3	2-Critical	K64131101	TMM crash from a possible memory corruption.
639929-2	2-Critical		Session variable replace with value containing these characters ' " & < > = may case tmm crash
632178-1	2-Critical		LDAP Query agent creates only two session variables when required attributes list is empty
703984-2	3-Major		Machine Cert agent improperly matches hostname with CN and SAN
703429-1	3-Major		Citrix Receiver for Android (v3.13.1) crashes while accessing PNAgent services
700783-3	3-Major		Machine certificate check does not check against all FQDN hostnames
692307-1	3-Major		User with 'operator' role may not be able to view some session variables
689826-2	3-Major		Proxy/PAC file generated during VPN tunnel is not updated for Windows 10 (unicode languages like: Japanese/Korean/Chinese)
686282-1	3-Major		APMD intermittently crash when processing access policies
684325-3	3-Major		APMD Memory leak when applying a specific access profile
683389-1	3-Major		Error #2134 when attempting to create local flash.net::SharedObject in rewritten ActionScript 3 file
682500-1	3-Major	K03903649	VDI Profile and Storefront Portal Access resource do not work together
680112-1	3-Major	K18131781	SWG-Explicit rejects large POST bodies during policy evaluation
678851-1	3-Major		Portal Access produces incorrect Java bytecode when rewriting java.applet.AppletStub.getDocumentBase()
676690-3	3-Major		Windows Edge Client sometimes crashes when user signs out from Windows
675866-1	3-Major		WebSSO: Kerberos rejects tickets with 2 minutes left in their ticket lifetime, causing APM to disable SSO
675399-3	3-Major	K14304639	Network Access does not work when empty variables are assigned for WINS and DNS
674593-1	3-Major		APM configuration snapshot takes a long time to create
674410-3	3-Major	K59281892	AD auth failures due to invalid Kerberos tickets
673748-1	3-Major	K19534801	ng_export, ng_import might leave security.configpassword in invalid state
672868-1	3-Major		Portal Access: JavaScript application with non-whitespace control characters may be processed incorrectly
672040-3	3-Major		Access Policy Causing Duplicate iRule Event Execution
671597-1	3-Major		Import, export, copy and delete is taking too long on 1000 entries policy
670910-2	3-Major		Flash AS3 flash.external.ExternalInterface.call() wrapper can fail when loaderInfo object is undefined
669510-2	3-Major		When network changes after VPN is established, network access tunnel is closed when network access configuration has 'Allow local DNS servers' and 'Prohibit routing table changes during Network Access connection' options enabled.
669154-1	3-Major	K25342114	Creating new invalid SAML IdP configuration object may cause tmm restart in rare cases.
668623-5	3-Major	K85991425	macOS Edge client fails to detect correct system language for regions other than USA
668503-3	3-Major		Edge Client fails to reconnect to virtual server after disabling Network Adapter
668129-1	3-Major		BIG-IP as SAML SP support for multiple signing certificates in SAML metadata from external identity providers.
666689-1	3-Major		Occasional "profile not found" errors following activate access policy
666058-2	3-Major	K86091857	XenApp 6.5 published icons are not displayed on APM Webtop
665416-3	3-Major	K02016491	Old versions of APM configuration snapshots need to be reaped more aggressively if not used
665330-1	3-Major		MSIE 11 should avoid compatibility mode
664507-3	3-Major		When BIG-IP is used as SP with IdP-connector automation, updates to remotely published metadata may remove certificate reference from the local configuration
663127-1	3-Major		Empty attribute values in SAML Identity Provider configuration may cause error when loading configuration.
655364-1	3-Major		Portal access rewriting window.opener causes JS exception
655146-2	3-Major		APM Profile access stats are not updated correctly
654508-2	3-Major		SharePoint MS-OFBA browser window displays Javascript errors
654046-1	3-Major	K22121533	BIG-IP as SAML IdP may fail to process signed authentication requests from some external SPs.
653771-2	3-Major		tmm crash after per-request policy error
653324-3	3-Major	K87979026	On macOS Sierra (10.12), Edge client shows customized icon of size 48x48 pixels scaled incorrectly
651910-2	3-Major		Cannot change 'Enable Access System Logs' or 'Enable URL Request Logs' via the GUI after upgrading from 12.x to 13.0.0 or later
649613-3	3-Major		Multiple UDP/TCP packets packed into one DTLS Record
632646-4	3-Major		APM - OAM login with ObSSOCookie results in error page instead of redirecting to login page, when session cookie (ObSSOCookie) is deleted from OAM server.
629921-4	3-Major		[[SWG]-NTLM 407 based front end auth and passthrough 401 based NTLM backend auth does not work.
621682-1	3-Major		Portal Access: problem with specific JavaScript code
616104-2	3-Major		VMware View connections to pool hit matching BIG-IP virtuals
613373-2	3-Major		Access may be denied to users with Application Editor role when accessing SAML Authentication Context UI page
610582-2	3-Major		Device Guard prevents Edge Client connections
601420-3	3-Major		Possible SAML authentication loop with IE and multi-domain SSO.
596083-1	3-Major		Error running custom APM Reports with "session creation time" on Viprion Platform
590992-3	3-Major		If IP address on network adapter changes but DNS remains unchanged, DNS resolution stops working
578413-1	3-Major		Missing reference to customization-group from connectivity profile if created via portal access wizard
575444-1	3-Major		Wininfo agent incorrectly reports OS version on Windows 10 in some cases
563135-3	3-Major		SWG Explicit Proxy uses incorrect port after a 407 Authentication Attempt
466068-1	3-Major		Allow setting of the AAA Radius server timeout value larger than 60 seconds
447565-5	3-Major	K33692321	Renewing machine-account password does not update the serviceId for associated ntlm-auth.
691017-1	4-Minor		Preventing ng_export hangs
684414-1	4-Minor		Retrieving too many groups is causing out of memory errors in TMUI and VPE
673717-1	4-Minor		VPE loading times can be very long
671627-1	4-Minor	K06424790	HTTP responces without body may contain chunked body with empty payload being processed by Portal Access.
667304-1	4-Minor	K68108551	Logon page shows 'Save Password' checkbox even if 'Allow Password Caching' is not enabled
561892-2	4-Minor	K08121752	Kerberos cache is not cleared when Administrator password is changed in AAA AD Server

Service Provider Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
662844	2-Critical	K87735013	TMM crashes if Diameter MRF mirroring is enabled in v12.x.x. Diameter MRF mirroring is not implemented in v12.x.x.
643785-3	2-Critical		diadb crashes if it cannot find pool name
699431	3-Major		Possible memory leak in MRF under low memory

Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
456376-4	1-Blocking	K53153545	BIG-IP does not support IPv4-mapped-IPv6 notation in the configuration with prefix length greater than 32
671052-3	2-Critical	K50324413	AFM NAT security RST the traffic with (FW NAT) dst_trans failed
664708-2	2-Critical		TMM memory leak when DoS profile is attached to VS
644822-2	2-Critical	K19245372	FastL4 virtual server with enabled loose-init option works differently with/without AFM provisioned
564058-1	2-Critical	K91467162	AutoDoS daemon aborts intermittently after it's being up for several days
620543-1	3-Major		Security Address Lists and Port Lists can't change Description field

Policy Enforcement Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
696383-2	2-Critical		PEM Diameter incomplete flow crashes when sweeped
694717-3	2-Critical		Potential memory leak and TMM crash due to a PEM iRule command resulting in a remote lookup.
616008-3	2-Critical	K23164003	TMM core may be seen when using an HSL format script for HSL reporting in PEM
696789-2	3-Major		PEM Diameter incomplete flow crashes when TCL resumed
695968-3	3-Major		Memory leak in case of a PEM Diameter session going down due to remote end point connectivity issues.
694319-3	3-Major		CCA without a request type AVP cannot be tracked in PEM.
694318-3	3-Major		PEM subscriber sessions will not be deleted if a CCA-t contains a DIAMETER_TOO_BUSY return code and no request type AVP.
684333-3	3-Major		PEM session created by Gx may get deleted across HA multiple switchover with CLI command
678820-2	3-Major		Potential memory leak if PEM Diameter sessions are not created successfully.
678714-3	3-Major		After HA failover, subscriber data has stale session ID information
660187-3	3-Major		TMM core after intra-chassis failover for some instances of subscriber creation
642068-1	3-Major		PEM: Gx sessions will stay in marked_for_delete state if CCR-T timeout happens
638594-3	3-Major		TMM crash when handling unknown Gx messages.
627616-3	3-Major		CCR-U missing upon VALIDITY TIMER expiry when quota is zero
624231-5	3-Major		No flow control when using content-insertion with compression
680729-3	4-Minor	K64307999	DHCP Trace log incorrectly marked as an Error log.
678822-3	4-Minor		Gx/Gy stats display provision pending sessions if there is no route to PCRF or the app is unlicensed

Carrier-Grade NAT Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
663333-1	2-Critical		TMM may core in PBA mode id LSN pool is under provisioned or the utilization is high
615432-1	2-Critical		Multiple TFTP data transfers cannot be initiated in a single session
663974-2	3-Major		TMM crash when using LSN inbound connections

Fraud Protection Services Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
692123-2	3-Major		GET parameter is grayed out if MobileSafe is not licensed
667892-2	3-Major		FPS: BLFN inheritance won't take effect until GUI refresh

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.1 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
681710-4	CVE-2017-6155	K10930474	Malformed HTTP/2 requests may cause TMM to crash
673595-2	CVE-2017-3167 CVE-2017-3169	K34125394	Apache CVE-2017-3167
648786-5	CVE-2017-6169	K31404801	TMM crashes when categorizing long URLs

Functional Change Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
673129	3-Major		New feature: revoke license

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
682837	1-Blocking		Compression watchdog period too brief.
675921	1-Blocking		Creating 5th vCMP 'ssl-mode dedicated' guest results in an error, but is running
696468	2-Critical		Active compression requests can become starved from too many queued requests.
667173	2-Critical		13.1.0 cannot join a device group with 13.1.0.1
665656-1	2-Critical		BWC with iSession may memory leak
663366-3	2-Critical		SEGV fault can occur during tmm 'panic' on i4x00 and i2x00 platforms.
621386-1	2-Critical	K91988084	restjavad spawns too many icrd_child instances
679959-1	3-Major		Unable to ping self IP of VCMP guest configured on i5000, i7000, or i10000
672988-2	3-Major	K03433341	MCP memory leak when performing incremental ConfigSync
669288-3	3-Major	K76152943	Cannot run tmsh utils unix-* commands in Appliance mode when /shared/f5optics/images does not exist.
668352-2	3-Major		High Speed Logging unbalance in log distribution for multiple pool destination.
668048-1	3-Major	K02551403	TMM memory leak when manually enabling/disabling pool member used as HSL destination
663063-2	3-Major		Disabling pool member used in busy HSL TCP destination can result service disruption.
659057-1	3-Major		BIG-IP iSeries: Retrieving the gateway from the Host via REST through the LCD
658636-2	3-Major	K51355172	When creating LTM or DNS monitors through batch/transaction mode newlines are improperly escaped.
652691-1	3-Major		Installation fails if only .iso.384.sig (new format signature file) is present★
652689-2	3-Major	K14243280	Displaying 100G interfaces
642952	3-Major		platform_check doesn't run PCI check on i11800
640636-3	3-Major		F5 Optics seen as unsupported instead of misconfigured when inserted into wrong port on B4450 Blade
638881-1	3-Major		Incorrect fan status displayed when fan tray is removed on BIG-IP iSeries appliances
628739-1	3-Major		BIG-IP iSeries does not disallow configuring of management IP outside the management subnet using the LCD
628735-1	3-Major		Displaying Hardware SYN Cookie Protection field in TCP/FastL4/FastHTTP profiles
604547-1	3-Major	K21551422	Unix daemon configuration may lost or not be updated upon reboot
674515	4-Minor		New revoke license feature for VE only implemented
663580-1	4-Minor	K31981624	logrotate does not automatically run when /var/log reaches 90% usage
644723-1	4-Minor		cm56xxd logs link 'DOWN' message when an interface is admin DISABLED
507206-1	4-Minor		Multicast Out stats always zero for management interface.

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
463097-3	3-Major	K09247330	Clock advanced messages with large amount of data maintained in DNS Express zones

Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
672504-1	2-Critical	K52325625	Deleting zones from large databases can take excessive amounts of time.
614788-1	2-Critical		zxfrd crash due to lack of disk space
655233-1	3-Major	K93338593	DNS Express using wrong TTL for SOA RRSIG record in NoData response
648766-1	3-Major	K57853542	DNS Express responses missing SOA record in NoData responses if CNAMEs present
645615-2	3-Major	K70543226	zxfrd may fail and restart after multiple failovers between blades in a chassis.
433678-2	3-Major	K32401561	A monitor removed from GTM link cannot be deleted: 'monitor is in use'
646615-1	4-Minor		Improved default storage size for DNS Express database

Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
652796-1	1-Blocking		When BIG-IP is used on an appliance with over 24 CPU cores (or VE on a HW platform with over 24 CPU cores) some processes may be constantly restarting until disabled.
652792-1	2-Critical		When BIG-IP is used on an appliance with over 24 CPU cores (or VE on a HW platform with over 24 CPU cores) some processes may be constantly restarting until disabled.
678976-2	3-Major	K24756214	Do not print all HTTP headers to avoid printing user credentials to /var/log/apm.
677058-3	3-Major		Citrix Logon prompt with two factor auth or Logon Page agent with two password type variables write password in plain text

Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
679440-2	2-Critical	K14120433	MCPD Cores with SIGABRT
591828-4	3-Major		For unmatched connection, TCP RST may not be sent for data packet

Policy Enforcement Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
668252-2	2-Critical	K22784428	TMM crash in PEM_DIAMETER component
628311-3	2-Critical	K87863112	Potential TMM crash due to duplicate installed PEM policies by the PCRF
675928-2	3-Major		Periodic content insertion could add too many inserts to multiple flows if http request is outstanding
674686-2	3-Major		Periodic content insertion of new flows fails, if an outstanding flow is a long flow
673683-2	3-Major		Periodic content insertion fails, if pem and classification profile are detached and reattached to the Listener
673678-2	3-Major		Periodic content insertion fails, if http request/response get interleaved by second subscriber http request
673472-2	3-Major		After classification rule is updated, first periodic Insert content action fails for existing subscriber
639486-4	3-Major		TMM crash due to PEM usage reporting after a CMP state change.
634015-3	3-Major	K49315364	Potential TMM crash due to a PEM policy content triggered buffer overflow
572568-2	3-Major		Gy CCR-i requests are not being re-sent after initial configured re-transmits

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
684879-2	CVE-2017-6164	K02714910	Malformed TLS1.2 records may result in TMM segmentation fault.
662022-5	CVE-2017-6138	K34514540	The URI normalization functionality within the TMM may mishandle some malformed URIs.
653993-3	CVE-2017-6132	K12044607	A specific sequence of packets to the HA listener may cause tmm to produce a core file
653880	CVE-2017-6214	K81211720	Kernel Vulnerability: CVE-2017-6214
652539	CVE-2016-0634 CVE-2016-7543 CVE-2016-9401	K73705133	Multiple Bash Vulnerabilities
652516	CVE-2016-10088 CVE-2016-10142 CVE-2016-2069 CVE-2016-2384 CVE-2016-6480 CVE-2016-7042 CVE-2016-7097 CVE-2016-8399 CVE-2016-9576	K31603170	Multiple Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities
651221-2	CVE-2017-6133	K25033460	Parsing certain URIs may cause the TMM to produce a core file.
650286-2	CVE-2017-6167	K24465120	REST asynchronous tasks permissions issues
650059-1	CVE-2017-6129	K20087443	TMM may crash when processing VPN traffic
649907-2	CVE-2017-3137	K30164784	BIND vulnerability CVE-2017-3137
649904-2	CVE-2017-3136	K23598445	BIND vulnerability CVE-2017-3136
644904-5	CVE-2016-7922, CVE-2016-7923, CVE-2016-7924, CVE-2016-7925, CVE-2016-7926, CVE-2016-7927, CVE-2016-7928, CVE-2016-7929, CVE-2016-7930, CVE-2016-7931, CVE-2016-7932, CVE-2016-7933, CVE-2016-7934, CVE-2016-7935, CVE-2016-7936, CVE-2016-7937, CVE-2016-7938, CVE-2016-7939, CVE-2016-7940, CVE-2016-7973, CVE-2016-7986, CVE-2016-7992, CVE-2016-7993, CVE-2016-8574, CVE-2016-8575, CVE-2016-7974, CVE-2016-7975, CVE-2016-7983, CVE-2016-7984, CVE-2016-7985 CVE-2017-5202, CVE-2017-5203, CVE-2017-5204, CVE-2017-5205, CVE-2017-5341, CVE-2017-5342, CVE-2017-5482, CVE-2017-5483, CVE-2017-5484, CVE-2017-5485, CVE-2017-5486	K55129614	tcpdump 4.9
644693-3	CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2017-3272, CVE-2017-3289, CVE-2017-3253, CVE-2017-3261, CVE-2017-3231,CVE-2016-5547,CVE-2016-5552, CVE-2017-3252, CVE-2016-5546, CVE-2016-5548, CVE-2017-3241	K15518610	Fix for multiple CVE for openjdk-1.7.0
638556-2	CVE-2016-10045	K73926196	PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2016-10045
634779-1	CVE-2017-6147	K43945001	TMM may crash will processing SSL Forward Proxy traffic
625860-2	CVE-2017-6140	K55102452	Improved handling of crypto hardware decrypt failures on B4450 platform.
624903-6	CVE-2017-6140	K55102452	Improved handling of crypto hardware decrypt failures on 2000s/2200s or 4000s/4200v platforms.
600069-6	CVE-2017-0301	K54358225	Portal Access: Requests handled incorrectly
659791-2	CVE-2017-6136	K81137982	TFO and TLP could produce a core file under specific circumstances
655059-3	CVE-2017-6134	K37404773	TMM Crash
653224-1	CVE-2016-8610 CVE-2017-5335 CVE-2017-5336 CVE-2017-5337	K59836191	Multiple GnuTLS Vulnerabilities
653217-2	CVE-2016-2125 CVE-2016-2126	K03644631	Multiple Samba Vulnerabilities
645480-3	CVE-2017-6139	K45432295	Unexpected APM response
645101-2	CVE-2017-3731, CVE-2017-3732	K44512851	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2017-3732
642659-2	CVE-2015-8870, CVE-2016-5652, CVE-2016-9533, CVE-2016-9534, CVE-2016-9535, CVE-2016-9536, CVE-2016-9537, CVE-2016-9540	K34527393	Multiple LibTIFF Vulnerabilities
640768	CVE-2016-10088 CVE-2016-9576	K05513373	Kernel vulnerability: CVE-2016-10088
639729-2	CVE-2017-0304	K39428424	Request validation failure in AFM UI Policy Editor
637666-2	CVE-2016-10033	K74977440	PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2016-10033
635314-5	CVE-2016-1248	K22183127	vim Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1248
622178-1	CVE-2017-6158	K19361245	Improve flow handling when Autolasthop is disabled
597176-1	CVE-2015-8711 CVE-2015-8714 CVE-2015-8716 CVE-2015-8717 CVE-2015-8718 CVE-2015-8720 CVE-2015-8721 CVE-2015-8723 CVE-2015-8725 CVE-2015-8729 CVE-2015-8730 CVE-2015-8733 CVE-2016-2523 CVE-2016-4006 CVE-2016-4078 CVE-2016-4079 CVE-2016-4080 CVE-2016-4081 CVE	K01837042	Multiple Wireshark (tshark) vulnerabilities
583678-1	CVE-2016-3115	K93532943	SSHD session.c vulnerability CVE-2016-3115
567233-1	CVE-2015-5252, CVE-2015-5296, CVE-2015-5299	K92616530	Multiple samba vulnerabilities
353229-2	CVE-2018-5522	K54130510	Buffer overflows in DIAMETER
656912-4	CVE-2017-6460, CVE-2017-6462, CVE-2017-6463, CVE-2017-6464, CVE-2017-6451, CVE-2017-6458	K32262483	Various NTP vulnerabilities
632875-3	CVE-2018-5516	K37442533	Non-Administrator TMSH users no longer allowed to run dig
615226-5	CVE-2015-8925 CVE-2015-8933 CVE-2016-8688 CVE-2015-8919 CVE-2016-8689 CVE-2015-8931 CVE-2015-8923 CVE-2015-8930 CVE-2015-8922 CVE-2016-5844 CVE-2015-8917 CVE-2016-8687 CVE-2015-8932 CVE-2015-8916 CVE-2016-4809 CVE-2015-8934 CVE-2015-8924 CVE-2015-8920 CVE-2016-4302 CVE-2015-8921 CVE-2015-8928 CVE-2015-8926 CVE-2016-7166 CVE-2016-4300	K13074505	Libarchive vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-8687 and others
590840-2	CVE-2015-8325	K20911042	OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2015-8325
655021-2	CVE-2017-3138	K23598445	BIND vulnerability CVE-2017-3138
652638-2	CVE-2016-10167	K23731034	php - Fix DOS vulnerability in gdImageCreateFromGd2Ctx()
627203-1	CVE-2016-5542, CVE-2016-5554, CVE-2016-5573, CVE-2016-5582, CVE-2016-5597	K63427774	Multiple Oracle Java SE vulnerabilities

Functional Change Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
654549-1	2-Critical		PVA support for uncommon protocols DoS vector
653729-2	2-Critical		Support IP Uncommon Protocol
653234	2-Critical		Many objects must be reconfigured before use when loading a UCS from another device.★
652094-2	2-Critical	K49190243	Improve traffic disaggregation for uncommon IP protocols
643210-2	2-Critical	K45444280	Restarting MCPD on Secondary Slot of Chassis causes deletion of netHSM keys on SafeNet HSM
643054-2	2-Critical		ARP and NDP packets should be CoS marked by the swtich on ingress
663521-2	3-Major		Intermittent dropping of multicast packets on certain BIG-IP platforms
651772-3	3-Major		IPv6 host traffic may use incorrect IPv6 and MAC address after route updates
643143-2	3-Major		ARP and NDP packets should be QoS/DSCP marked on egress
610710-2	3-Major		Pass IP TOS bits from incoming connection to outgoing connection
584545-2	3-Major		Failure to stabilize internal HiGig link will not trigger failover event
567177-1	4-Minor		Log all attempts of key export in ltm log
650074-1	5-Cosmetic		Changed Format of RAM Cache REST Status output.

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
642703-2	1-Blocking		Formatting installation using software v12.1.2 or v13.0.0 fails for i5000, i7000, i10000, i11000, i12000 platforms.★
619097	1-Blocking		iControl REST slow performace on GET request for virtual servers
539093-1	1-Blocking	K26104530	VE shows INOPERATIVE status until at least one VLAN is configured and attached to an interface.
697878	2-Critical		High crypto request completion time under some workload patterns
666790-2	2-Critical	K06619044	Use HSB HiGig MAC reset to recover both FCS errors and link instability
665354-2	2-Critical	K31190471	Silent reboot, identified with bad_tlp_status and completion_time_out in the sel log
658574-2	2-Critical	K61847644	An accelerated flow transmits packets to a stale (incorrect) destination MAC address.
655357-2	2-Critical	K06245820	Corrupted L2 FDB entries on B4450 blades might result in dropped traffic
653376-5	2-Critical		bgpd may crash on receiving a BGP update with >= 32 extended communities
649866-1	2-Critical		fsck should not run during first boot on public clouds
638997-2	2-Critical		Reboot required after disk size modification in a running BIG-IP VE instance.
625456-5	2-Critical		Pending sector utility may write repaired sector incorrectly
624826-2	2-Critical		mgmt bridge takes HWADDR of guest vm's tap interface
613415-2	2-Critical	K22750357	Memory leak in ospfd when distribute-list is used
609335-1	2-Critical		IPsec tmm devbuf memory leak.
604011-1	2-Critical		Sync fails when iRule or policy is in use★
595783	2-Critical		Changing console baud rate for B2100, B2150 and B2250 blades does not work
593137-1	2-Critical		userDefined property for bot signatures is not shown in REST
579210-3	2-Critical	K11418051	VIPRION B4400N blades might fail to go Active under rare conditions.
471860-10	2-Critical	K16209	Disabling interface keeps DISABLED state even after enabling
412817-3	2-Critical		BIG-IP system unreachable for IPv6 traffic via PCI pass-through interfaces as current ixgbevf drivers do not support multicast receive.
671920-1	3-Major		Accessing SNMP over IPv6 on non-default route domains
669818-2	3-Major		Higher CPU usage for syslog-ng when a syslog server is down
667278-3	3-Major		DSC connections between BIG-IP units may fail to establish
667138-1	3-Major		LTM 12.1.2 HF1 - Upgrade to 12.1.2 HF1 fails with err "folder does not exist"★
664829-1	3-Major		BIG-IP sometimes performs unnecessary reboot on first boot
662331-1	3-Major	K24331010	BIG-IP logs INVALID-SPI messages but does not remove the associated SAs.
661764-2	3-Major	K53762147	It is possible to configure a number of CPUs that exceeds the licensed throughput
660532-2	3-Major	K21050223	Cannot specify the event parameter for redirects on the policy rule screen.
655671-1	3-Major		Polling time waiting for I2C bus transactions in the bcm56xxd daemon needs to be reduced
655649-2	3-Major	K88627152	BGP last update timer incorrectly resets to 0
654011-2	3-Major	K33210520	Pool member's health monitors set to Member Specific does not display the active monitors
651155-1	3-Major		HSB continually logs 'loopback ring 0 tx not active'
650349	3-Major		Creation or reconfiguration of iApps fails if high speed logging is configured
650002-1	3-Major		tzdata bug fix and enhancement update
649949-1	3-Major		Intermittent failure to do a clean install on iSeries platforms from USB DVD-ROM★
647988-3	3-Major	K15331432	HSL Balanced distribution to Two-member pool may not be balanced correctly.
647944-2	3-Major		MCP may crash when making specific changes to a FIX profile attached to more than one virtual server
645179-6	3-Major		Traffic group becomes active on more than one BIG-IP after a long uptime
644404-1	3-Major		Extracting SSD from system leads to Emergency LCD alert★
644184-4	3-Major	K36427438	ZebOS daemons hang while AgentX SNMP daemon is waiting.
643294	3-Major		IGMP and PIM not in self-allow default list when upgrading from 10.2.x★
643121-1	3-Major		Failed installation volumes cannot be deleted in the GUI.
643013	3-Major		DAGv2 introduced on i5600, i5800, i7600, i7800, i10600, i10800 platforms in v12.1.3
642982-3	3-Major	K23241518	tmrouted may continually restart after upgrade, adding or renaming an interface★
642314-2	3-Major	K24276198	CNAME ending with dot in pool causes validation problems after upgrade from 11.x to 12.x or v13.x★
638825-2	3-Major		SNMP Get of sysInterfaceMediaActiveSpeed returns wrong value for 100000SR4-FD
637561-1	3-Major		Wildcard wideips not handling matching queries after tmsh load sys from gtm conf file twice
636744-1	3-Major	K16918340	IKEv1 phase 2 SAs not deleted
631866-2	3-Major		Cannot access LTM policy rules in the web UI when the name contains certain characters
631172-4	3-Major	K54071336	GUI user logged off when idle for 30 minutes, even when longer timeout is set
624692-3	3-Major		Certificates with ISO/IEC 10646 encoded strings may prevent certificate list page from displaying
623391-5	3-Major		cpcfg cannot copy a UCS file to a volume set with a root filesystem that has less free space than the total UCS size★
622619-5	3-Major		BIG-IP 11.6.1 - "tmsh show sys log <item> range" can kill MCPD
622133-1	3-Major		VCMP guests may incorrectly obtain incorrect MAC addresses
621259-3	3-Major		Config save takes long time if there is a large number of data groups
619060	3-Major		Reduction in boot time in BIG-IP Virtual Edition platforms
617875-1	3-Major		vCMP guest may fail to start due to not enough hugepages
612752-1	3-Major		UCS load or upgrade may fail under certain conditions.★
610442-2	3-Major	K75051412	vcmp_media_insert failed message and lind restart loop on vCMP guest when installing with block-device-image with bad permissions on .iso★
607961-1	3-Major		Secondary blades restart when modifying a virtual server's route domain in a different partition.
605792-1	3-Major		Installing a new version changes the ownership of administrative users' files★
601709-2	3-Major	K02314881	I2C error recovery for BIG-IP 4340N/4300 blades
590938-3	3-Major		The CMI rsync daemon may fail to start
583475-1	3-Major		The BIG-IP may core while recompiling LTM policies
577474-3	3-Major	K35208043	Users with auditor role are unable to use tmsh list sys crypto cert
569100-1	3-Major		Virtual server using NTLM profile results in benign Tcl error
544906-2	3-Major	K07388310	Issues when using remote authentication when users have different partition access on different devices
507240-4	3-Major	K13811263	ICMP traffic cannot be disaggregated based on IP addresses
480983-4	3-Major		tmrouted daemon may core due to daemon_heartbeat
471029-2	3-Major		If the configuration contains a filename with the $ character, then saving the UCS fails.
656900-1	4-Minor		Blade family migration may fail
655314	4-Minor		When failing to load a UCS, the hostname is still changed, only in 12.1.2 or 13.0.0★
653225-1	4-Minor		coreutils security and bug fix update
645717	4-Minor		UCS load does not set directory owner
644975-4	4-Minor	K09554025	/var/log/maillog contains errors when ssmtp is not configured to use a valid mailhost
644799-1	4-Minor	K42882011	TMM may crash when the BIG-IP system processes CGNAT traffic.
642723-3	4-Minor		Western Digital WD1600YS-01SHB1 hard drives not recognized by pendsect
634371-2	4-Minor		Cisco ethernet NIC driver
530927-8	4-Minor		Adding interfaces to trunk fails if trunk and interfaces are forced to lower speed
530530-6	4-Minor		tmsh sys log filter is displayed in UTC time
527720-1	4-Minor		Rare 'No LopCmd reply match found' error in getLopReg
448409-1	4-Minor	K15491	'load sys config verify' commands cause loss of sync configuration and initiates a provisioning cycle
626596	5-Cosmetic		Statistics :: Analytics :: Hardware Acceleration menu contains misspelled menu item: 'Assited Connections'.

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
670011-2	1-Blocking		SSL forward proxy does not create the server certchain when ignoring server certificates
621452-1	1-Blocking	K58146172	Connections can stall with TCP::collect iRule
659899-1	2-Critical	K10589537	Rare, intermittent system instability observed in dynamic load-balancing modes
657713-5	2-Critical	K05052273	Gateway pool action may trigger the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to produce a core file and restart.
655628-1	2-Critical		TCP analytics does not release resources under specific sequence of packets
655211-1	2-Critical		bigd crash (SIGSEGV) when running FQDN node monitors
650317-3	2-Critical		The TMM on the next-active panics with message: "Missing oneconnect HA context"
649171-4	2-Critical		tmm core in iRule with unreachable remote address
648037-2	2-Critical		LB::reselect iRule on a virtual with the HTTP profile can cause a tmm crash
646643-2	2-Critical	K43005132	HA standby virtual server with non-default lasthop settings may crash.
646604-5	2-Critical	K21005334	Client connection may hang when NTLM and OneConnect profiles used together
645663	2-Critical		Crypto traffic failure for vCMP guests provisioned with more than 12 vcpus.
644112-2	2-Critical	K56150996	Permanent connections may be expired when endpoint becomes unreachable
643631	2-Critical	K70938130	Serverside connections on virtual servers using VDI may become zombies.
635274-1	2-Critical	K21514205	SSL::sessionid command may return invalid values
634265-2	2-Critical	K34688632	Using route pools whose members aren't directly connected may crash the TMM.
632552-2	2-Critical	K08634156	tmm crashes when CLIENT_CLOSED or SERVER_CLOSED is used with parking command in another event
629178-1	2-Critical	K42206046	Incorrect initial size of connection flow-control window
611704-5	2-Critical		tmm crash with TCP::close in CLIENTSSL_CLIENTCERT iRule event
605983-1	2-Critical		tmrouted may crash when being restarted in debug mode
604926-3	2-Critical	K50041125	The TMM may become unresponsive when using SessionDB data larger than ~400K
604223-2	2-Critical		pkcs11d signal handler improvement to turn off all threads at time of "SIGTERM"
583700-3	2-Critical		tmm core on out of memory
583355-1	2-Critical		The TMM may crash when changing profiles associated with plugins
566071-5	2-Critical		network-HSM may not be operational on secondary slots of a standby chassis.
559030-1	2-Critical	K65244513	TMM may core during ILX RPC activity if a connflow closes before the RPC returns
687193-1	3-Major		TMM may leak memory when processing SSL Forward Proxy traffic
677119	3-Major		HTTP2 implementation incorrectly treats SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE
672008-1	3-Major	K22122208	NUL character inserted into syslog message when system time rolls over to exactly 1000000 microseconds
671935-2	3-Major	K64461712	Possible ephemeral port reuse.
669025-1	3-Major	K11425420	Exclude the trusted anchor certificate in hash algorithm selection when Forward Proxy forges a certificate
668521-2	3-Major		Bigd might stall while waiting for an external monitor process to exit
666032-3	3-Major	K05145506	Secure renegotiation is set while data is not available.
663326-2	3-Major		Thales HSM: "fipskey.nethsm --export" fails to make stub keys
662881-2	3-Major	K10443875	L7 mirrored packets from standby to active might cause tmm core when it goes active.
662085-1	3-Major		iRules LX Workspace editor in TMUI fails to display all workspace contents after install of large Node.js packages
658214-2	3-Major	K20228504	TCP connection fail intermittently for mirrored fastl4 virtual server
655793-1	3-Major	K04178391	SSL persistence parsing issues due to SSL / TCP boundary mismatch
654109-2	3-Major	K01102467	Configuration loading may fail when iRules calling procs in other iRules are deleted
653511-2	3-Major		Intermittent connection failure with SNAT/automap, SP-DAG and virtual server source-port=preserve
652535-1	3-Major	K54443700	HTTP/2 stream reset with PROTOCOL_ERROR when frame header is fragmented.
652445-2	3-Major	K87541959	SAN with uppercase names result in case-sensitive match or will not match
651651-3	3-Major	K54604320	bigd can crash when a DNS response does not match the expected value
650292-2	3-Major		DNS transparent cache can return non-recursive results for recursive queries
650152-1	3-Major		Support AES-GCM acceleration in Nitrox PX wlite VCMP platforms
648954-5	3-Major	K01102467	Configuration validation (e.g., ConfigSync) may fail after an iRule is deleted, if the iRule made procedure calls
647137	3-Major		bigd/tmm con vCMP guests
646443-1	3-Major	K54432535	Ephemeral Node may be errantly created in bigd, causing crash
645058-3	3-Major		Modifying SSL profiles in GUI may fail when key is protected by passphrase
645036-3	3-Major	K85772089	Removing pool from virtual server does not update its status
644873-2	3-Major	K97237310	ssldump can fail to decrypt captures with certain TCP segmenting
644851-2	3-Major		Websockets closes connection on receiving a close frame from one of the peers
644418-2	3-Major		Do not consider self-signed certificate in hash algorithm selection when Forward Proxy forges a certificate
643777-2	3-Major	K27629542	LTM policies with more than one IP address in TCP address match may fail
643582-2	3-Major		Config load with large ssl profile configuration may cause tmm restart
641491-2	3-Major	K37551222	TMM core while running iRule LB::status pool poolname member ip port
640376-3	3-Major		STPD leaks memory on 2000/4000/i2000/i4000 series
638715-3	3-Major	K77010072	Multiple Diameter monitors to same server ip/port may race on PID file
632001-1	3-Major		For Thales net-HSMs, fipskey.nethsm now defaults to module protected keys
627574-1	3-Major		After upgrade to BIG-IP v12.1.x, Local Traffic Policies in partitions other than Common cannot be converted into a draft.
626434-6	3-Major	K65283203	tmm may be killed by sod when a hardware accelerator does not work
624805-1	3-Major		ILX node.js process may be restarted if a single operation takes more than 15 seconds
623940-3	3-Major		SSL Handshake fails if client tries to negotiate EC ciphers but does not present ec_point_formats extension in ClientHello
622017-8	3-Major	K54106058	Performance graph data may become permanently lost after corruption.
621736-6	3-Major		statsd does not handle SIGCHLD properly in all cases
620788-1	3-Major	K05232247	FQDN pool created with existing FQDN node has RED status
618161-1	3-Major		SSL handshake fails when clientssl uses softcard-protected key-certs.
618121	3-Major		"persist add" irule validation fails for RTSP_RESPONSE event on upgrade to v12.x.x★
607246-10	3-Major		Encrypted cookie insert persistence with fallback may not honor cookie after fallback expires
603609-2	3-Major		Policy unable to match initial path segment when request-URI starts with "//"
602040-3	3-Major		Truncated support ID for HTTP protocol security logging profile
600614-5	3-Major		External crypto offload fails when SSL connection is renegotiated
596433-3	3-Major		Virtual with lasthop configured rejects request with no route to client.
596242-1	3-Major	K17065223	[zxfrd] Improperly configured master name server for one zone makes DNS Express respond with previous record
595275-5	3-Major		Virtual IP address change might cause VIP state to go from GREEN to RED to GREEN
593390-4	3-Major		Profile lookup when selected via iRule ('SSL::profile') might cause memory issues.
589006-5	3-Major		SSL does not cancel pending sign request before the handshake times out or is canceled.
587705-5	3-Major	K98547701	Persist lookups fail for source_addr with match-across-virtuals when multiple entries exist with different pools.
578573-1	3-Major		SSL Forward Proxy Forged Certificate Signature Algorithm
563933-4	3-Major		[DNS] dns64-additional-section-rewrite v4-only does not rewrite v4 RRs
536563-7	3-Major		Incoming SYNs that match an existing connection may complete the handshake but will be RST with the cause of 'TCP 3WHS rejected' or 'No flow found for ACK' on subsequent packets.
484542-1	3-Major		QinQ tag-mode can be set on unsupported platforms
668802-3	4-Minor	K83392557	GTM link graphs fail to display in the GUI
667318-3	4-Minor		BIG-IP DNS/GTM link graphs fail to display in the GUI.
584210-1	4-Minor		TMM may core when running two simultaneous WebSocket collect commands
578415-2	4-Minor		Support for hardware accelerated bulk crypto SHA256 missing
513288-7	4-Minor		Management traffic from nodes being health monitored might cause health monitors to fail.
462043-2	4-Minor		DB variable 'qinq.cos' does not work in all cases on 5000 and C2400 platforms

Performance Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
620903-1	2-Critical		Decreased performance of ICMP attack mitigation.

Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
636541-3	1-Blocking		DNS Rapid Response filters large datagrams
667028-1	2-Critical		DNS Express does not run on i11000 platforms with htsplit disabled.
649564-2	2-Critical		Crash related to GTM monitors with long RECV strings
663073-1	3-Major		GSLB Pool member Manage page combo box has an issue that can cause the wrong pool member to be removed from the available list when adding a member to the selected list.
659912-1	3-Major		GSLB Pool Member Manage page display issues and error message
655807-5	3-Major	K40341291	With QoS LB, packet rate score is calculated incorrectly and dominates the QoS score
655445-2	3-Major		Provide the ability to globally specifiy a DSCP value.
654599-1	3-Major	K74132601	The GSLB Pool Member Manage page can cause Tomcat to drop the request when the Finished button is pressed
648286-2	3-Major		GSLB Pool Member Manage page fails to auto-select next available VS/WiP after pressing the add button.
644447-2	3-Major		sync_zones script increasingly consumes memory when there is network connectivity failure
626141-3	3-Major		DNSX Performance Graphs are not displaying Requests/sec"
615222-1	3-Major		GTM configuration fails to load when it has GSLB pool with members containing more than one colon character★
605260-1	3-Major		[GUI] Changes can not be made to GTM listener in partition with default route domain <> 0
659969-1	4-Minor		tmsh command for gtm-application disabled contexts does not work with none and replace-all-with
644220-3	4-Minor		Flawed logic when retrieving an LTM Virtual Server's assigned Link on the LTM Virtual Server Properties page
604371-1	4-Minor		Pagination controls missing for GSLB pool members
582773-5	4-Minor		DNS server for child zone can continue to resolve domain names after revoked from parent

Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
653014-1	2-Critical		Apply Policy failure if an custom Blocking Page is configured with an underscore in the header name
652200-1	2-Critical	K81349220	Failure to update ASM enforcer about account change.
638629-2	2-Critical		Bot can be classified as human
619110-1	2-Critical		Slow to delete URLs, CPU spikes with Automatic Policy Builder
672695-1	3-Major		Internal perl process listening on all interfaces when ASM enabled
665905	3-Major	K83305000	Signature System corruption from specific ASU prevents ASU load after upgrade
664930-2	3-Major		Policy automatic learning mode changes to manual after failover
655617-1	3-Major	K36442669	Safari, Firefox in incognito mode on iOS device cannot pass persistent client identification challenge
631444-2	3-Major		Bot Name for ASM Search Engines is case sensitive
606521-1	3-Major		Policy with UTF-8 encoding retains disallowed high ASCII meta-characters after upgrade
605616-1	3-Major		Creating 256 Fundamental Security policies will result in an out of memory error
602975-1	3-Major		Unable to update the HTTP URL's "Header-Based Content Profiles" values
596685-1	3-Major	K76841626	Request Log failure on request with XML format violation
595900-4	3-Major	K11833633	Cookie Signature overrides may be ignored after Signature Update
563727-1	3-Major		Issue a Body in Get sub violation for GET request with 'transfer-encoding: chunked'
534247-1	3-Major		Issue a Body in Get sub violation for GET request with content type header

Application Visibility and Reporting Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
604191-1	2-Critical		AVR: Loading the configuration after upgrade might fail due to mishandling of scheduled-reports★
629573-1	3-Major	K66001885	No drill-down filter for virtual-servers is mentioned on exported reports when using partition
603875-2	3-Major		The statistic ASM memory Utilization - bd swap size: stats are wrong
601536-1	3-Major		Analytics load error stops load of configuration★
639395-2	4-Minor	K91614278	AVR does not display 'Max read latency' units.

Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
647108-1	1-Blocking		Deletion of saml-idp-connector may fail depending on the order in which related objects are deleted within a transaction
679235-5	2-Critical		Inspection Host NPAPI Plugin for Safari can not be installed
669341	2-Critical		Category Lookup by Subject.CN will result in a reset
666454-2	2-Critical	K05520115	Edge client on Macbook Pro with touch bar cannot connect to VPN after OS X v10.12.5 update
663506-7	2-Critical	K30533350	apmd crash during ldap cache initialization
652004-2	2-Critical	K45320415	Show /apm access-info all-properties causes memory leaks in tmm
662639-2	3-Major		Policy Sync fails when policy object include FIPS key
659371-2	3-Major	K54310201	apmd crashes executing iRule policy evaluate
658852-5	3-Major		Empty User-Agent in iSessions requests from APM client on Windows
654513-6	3-Major	K11003951	APM daemon crashes when the LDAP query agent returns empty in its search results.
649929-1	3-Major		saml_sp_connector not properly deleted in a transaction that removes the saml resource and servers referring to it
648053-1	3-Major	K94477320	Rewrite plugin may crash on some JavaScript files
646928-1	3-Major		Landing URI incorrect when changing URI
645684-2	3-Major		Flash application components are loaded into wrong ApplicationDomain after Portal Access rewriting.
618957-1	3-Major		Certificate objects are not properly imported from external SAML SP metadata when metadata contains both signing and encryption certificates
601919-2	3-Major		Custom categories and custom url filter assignment must be specific to partition instead of global lookup
583272-2	3-Major		"Corrupted Connect Error" when using IPv6 and On-Demand Cert Auth
580567-1	3-Major		LDAP Query agent failed to resolve nested group membership
551795-1	3-Major		Portal Access: corrections to CORS support for XMLHttpRequest
550547-2	3-Major		URL including a "token" query fails results in a connection reset

Service Provider Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
664535-1	2-Critical		Diameter failure: load balancing fails when all pool members use same IP Address
640407-1	2-Critical		Usage of iRule commands that try to get or set connection state during CLIENT_CLOSED iRule event may core with MRF
568545-2	2-Critical	K17124802	iRules commands that refer to a transport-config will fail validation
559953-1	2-Critical		tmm core on long DIAMETER::host value
662364-2	3-Major		MRF DIAMETER: IP ToS not passing through with DIAMETER
644946-2	3-Major	K05053251	Enabling mirroring on SIP or DIAMETER router profile effects per-client connection mode operation
644565-1	3-Major		MRF Message metadata lost when routing message to a connection on a different TMM
634078-2	3-Major		MRF: Routing using a virtual with SNAT set to none may select a source port of zero
624155-2	3-Major		MRF Per-Client mode connections unable to return responses if used by another client connection
620929-4	3-Major		New iRule command, MR::ignore_peer_port
651640-3	4-Minor		queue full dropped messages incorrectly counted as responses

Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
670400-3	2-Critical		SSH Proxy public key authentication can be circumvented in some cases
655470	2-Critical	K79924625	IP Intelligence logging publisher removal can cause tmm crash
651001-1	2-Critical		massive prints in tmm log: "could not find conf for profile crc"
650081-1	3-Major	K53010710	FP feature causes the blank page/delay on IE11
648617	3-Major		JavaScript challenge repeating in loop when URL has path parameters
644855-2	3-Major		irules with commands which may suspend processing cannot be used with proactive bot defense
630356-1	3-Major		JavaScript challenge follow-up to POST is sent as GET in iframe from IE/Edge
628351-1	3-Major		Redirect loops on URLs with Path Parameters when Proactive Bot Defense is enabled
618902-4	3-Major		PCCD memory usage increases on configuration changes and recompilation due to small amount of memory leak on each compilation
618656-2	3-Major		JavaScript challenge repeating in loop on Firefox when URL is longer than 1033 characters
519612-1	3-Major		JavaScript challenge fails when coming within iframe with different domain than main page

Policy Enforcement Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
658261-2	2-Critical	K12253471	TMM core after HA during GY reporting
658148-2	2-Critical	K23150504	TMM core after intra-chassis failover for some instances of subscriber creation
657632-4	2-Critical		Rarely if a subscriber delete is performed following HA switchover, tmm may crash
653285-1	2-Critical		PEM rule deletion with HSL reporting may cause tmm coredump
652973-2	2-Critical		Coredump observed at system bootup time when many DHCP packets arrive
650422-2	2-Critical		TMM core after a switchover involving GY quota reporting
659567-1	3-Major	K94685557	iRule command PEM::session functions differently in 12.1.x and 13.0.0 than it did in prior versions
652052-3	3-Major		PEM:sessions iRule made the order of parameters strict
635257-2	3-Major	K41151808	Inconsistencies in Gx usage record creation.
623037-2	3-Major		delete of pem session attribute does not work after a update

Fraud Protection Services Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
676808-2	2-Critical		FPS: tmm may crash on response with large payload from server
669364-1	2-Critical		TMM core when server responds fast with server responses such as 404.
669359	2-Critical		WebSafe might cause connections to hang
674931	3-Major		FPS modified responses/injections might result in a corrupted response
674909-3	3-Major		Application CSS injection might break when connection is congested
667872-1	3-Major		Websafe's 'Apply cookies to base domain' feature doesn't work for non standard ports
658321-2	3-Major		Websafe features might break in IE8
657502-2	3-Major		JS error when leaving page opened for several minutes
644694	3-Major		FPS security update check ends up with an empty page when error occurs.
618185-1	3-Major		Mismatch in URL CRC32 calculation
643602-2	4-Minor		'Select All' checkbox selects items on hidden pages

Device Management Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
605123-1	2-Critical		IAppLX objects fail to sync after establishing HA in auto-sync mode★

iApp Technology Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
606316-4	1-Blocking		HTTPS request to F5 licensing server fails
665778-1	2-Critical	K34503519	Non-admin BIG-IP users can now view/re-deploy iApps through TMUI.
599424-2	2-Critical		iApps LX fails to sync★
632060-1	4-Minor		restjavad is unable to read the dtca.key files resulting in Error: Failed to read key: invalid header★

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.2 Hotfix 2 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
693211-3	CVE-2017-6168	K21905460	CVE-2017-6168

Functional Change Fixes

None

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
664063-1	2-Critical	K03203976	Azure displays failure for deployment of BIG-IP from a Resource Manager template

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.2 Hotfix 1 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
652151-1	CVE-2017-6131	K61757346	Azure VE: Initialization improvement
623885-4	CVE-2016-9251	K41107914	Internal authentication improvements
621371-2	CVE-2016-9257	K43523962	Output Errors in APM Event Log
648865-2	CVE-2017-6074	K82508682	Linux kernel vulnerability: CVE-2017-6074
643187-2	CVE-2017-3135	K80533167	BIND vulnerability CVE-2017-3135
641445-1	CVE-2017-6145	K22317030	iControl improvements
641360-2	CVE-2017-0303	K30201296	SOCKS proxy protocol error
641256-1	CVE-2016-9257	K43523962	APM access reports display error
636702-3	CVE-2016-9444	K40181790	BIND vulnerability CVE-2016-9444
636699-5	CVE-2016-9131	K86272821	BIND vulnerability CVE-2016-9131
631582	CVE-2016-9250	K55792317	Administrative interface enhancement
630475-5	CVE-2017-6162	K13421245	TMM Crash
628836-4	CVE-2016-9245	K22216037	TMM crash during request normalization
626360	CVE-2017-6163	K22541983	TMM may crash when processing HTTP2 traffic
624570-1	CVE-2016-8864	K35322517	BIND vulnerability CVE-2016-8864
624526-3	CVE-2017-6159	K10002335	TMM core in mptcp
624457-5	CVE-2016-5195	K10558632	Linux privilege-escalation vulnerability (Dirty COW) CVE-2016-5195
623093-1	CVE-2016-3990 CVE-2016-3632 CVE-2015-7554 CVE-2016-5320	K38871451	TIFF vulnerability CVE-2015-7554
620400-1	CVE-2017-6141	K21154730	TMM crash during TLS processing
610255-1	CVE-2017-6161	K62279530	CMI improvement
596340-8	CVE-2016-9244	K05121675	F5 TLS vulnerability CVE-2016-9244
580026-5	CVE-2017-6165	K74759095	HSM logging error
648879-2	CVE-2016-6136 CVE-2016-9555	K90803619	Linux kernel vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-6136 CVE-2016-9555
641612-2	CVE-2017-0302	K87141725	APM crash
638137	CVE-2016-7117 CVE-2016-4998 CVE-2016-6828	K51201255	CVE-2016-7117 CVE-2016-4998 CVE-2016-6828
635412	CVE-2017-6137	K82851041	Invalid mss with fast flow forwarding and software syn cookies
635252-1	CVE-2016-9256	K47284724	CVE-2016-9256
631688-7	CVE-2016-9311 CVE-2016-9310 CVE-2016-7427 CVE-2016-7428 CVE-2016-9312 CVE-2016-7431 CVE-2016-7434 CVE-2016-7429 CVE-2016-7426 CVE-2016-7433	K55405388 K87922456 K63326092 K51444934 K80996302	Multiple NTP vulnerabilities
630150-1	CVE-2016-9253	K51351360	Websockets processing error
627916-1	CVE-2017-6144	K81601350	Improve cURL Usage
627907-1	CVE-2017-6143	K11464209	Improve cURL usage
627747-1	CVE-2017-6142	K20682450	Improve cURL Usage
625372-5	CVE-2016-2179	K23512141	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2179
623119	CVE-2016-4470	K55672042	Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-4470
622496	CVE-2016-5829	K28056114	Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-5829
622126-1	CVE-2016-7124 CVE-2016-7125 CVE-2016-7126 CVE-2016-7127	K54308010	PHP vulnerability CVE-2016-7124
621337-6	CVE-2016-7469	K97285349	XSS vulnerability in the BIG-IP and Enterprise Manager Configuration utilities CVE-2016-7469
618261-6	CVE-2016-2182	K01276005	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2182
615267-2	CVE-2016-2183	K13167034	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2183
613225-7	CVE-2016-2180, CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-6302	K90492697	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6306
606710-10	CVE-2016-2834 CVE-2016-5285 CVE-2016-8635	K15479471	Mozilla NSS vulnerability CVE-2016-2834
605420-5	CVE-2016-5387, CVE-2007-6750	K80513384	httpd security update - CVE-2016-5387
600232-9	CVE-2016-2177	K23873366	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2177
600223-2	CVE-2016-2177	K23873366	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2177
599858-7	CVE-2015-8895 CVE-2015-8896 CVE-2015-8897 CVE-2015-8898 CVE-2016-5118 CVE-2016-5239 CVE-2016-5240	K68785753	ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2015-8898
635933-3	CVE-2004-0790	K23440942	The validation of ICMP messages for ePVA accelerated TCP connections needs to be configurable
628832-4	CVE-2016-6161	K71581599	libgd vulnerability CVE-2016-6161
622662-7	CVE-2016-6306	K90492697	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6306
617901-1	CVE-2018-5525	K00363258	GUI to handle file path manipulation to prevent GUI instability.
609691-1	CVE-2014-4617	K21284031	GnuPG vulnerability CVE-2014-4617
600205-9	CVE-2016-2178	K53084033	OpenSSL Vulnerability: CVE-2016-2178
600198-2	CVE-2016-2178 CVE-2016-6306 CVE-2016-6302 CVE-2016-2216	K53084033	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2178
599285-2	CVE-2016-5094 CVE-2016-5095 CVE-2016-5096	K51390683	PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2016-5094 and CVE-2016-5095
598002-10	CVE-2016-2178	K53084033	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2178
621937-1	CVE-2016-6304	K54211024	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6304
621935-6	CVE-2016-6304	K54211024	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6304
606771-2	CVE-2016-5399 CVE-2016-6288 CVE-2016-6289 CVE-2016-6290 CVE-2016-5385 CVE-2016-6291 CVE-2016-6292 CVE-2016-6207 CVE-2016-6294 CVE-2015-8879 CVE-2016-6295 CVE-2016-6296 CVE-2016-6297	K35799130	Multiple PHP vulnerabilities
601268-5	CVE-2015-8874 CVE-2016-5770 CVE-2016-5772 CVE-2016-5768 CVE-2016-5773 CVE-2016-5769 CVE-2016-5766 CVE-2016-5771 CVE-2016-5767 CVE-2016-5093 CVE-2016-5094	K43267483	PHP vulnerability CVE-2016-5766

Functional Change Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
653453	2-Critical		ARP replies reach front panel port of the B4450 blade, but fail to reach TMMs.
628972-2	2-Critical		BMC version 2.51.7 for iSeries appliances
624831-2	2-Critical		BWC: tmm crash can occur if dynamic BWC policy is used at max-user-rate over 2gbps
616918-1	2-Critical		BMC version 2.50.3 for iSeries appliances
633723-3	3-Major		New diagnostics run when a crypto HA failure occurs and crypto.ha.action is reboot
633391-1	3-Major		GUI Error trying to modify IP Data-Group
609614-3	3-Major		Yafuflash 4.25 for iSeries appliances
597797-4	3-Major	K78449695	Allow users to disable enforcement of RFC 7057
581840-5	3-Major	K46576869	Cannot manage BIG-IP version 11.6.1 or 11.6.1 HF1 through BIG-IQ.
564876-2	3-Major		New DB variable log.lsn.comma changes CGNAT logs to CSV format
609084-2	4-Minor	K03808942	Max number of chunks not configurable above 1000 chunks
597270-2	4-Minor		tcpdump support missing for VXLAN-GPE NSH

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
655500	1-Blocking		Rekey SSH sessions after one hour
642058-1	1-Blocking		CBL-0138-01 Active Copper does not work on i2000/i4000/HRC-i2800 Series appliances
641390-5	1-Blocking	K00216423	Backslash removal in LTM monitors after upgrade
627433-1	1-Blocking		HSB transmitter failure on i2x00 and i4x00 platforms
602830-1	1-Blocking		BIG-IP iSeries appliance LCD does not indicate when BIG-IP is in platform_check diagnostic mode
648056-2	2-Critical	K16503454	bcm56xxd core when configuring QinQ VLAN with vCMP provisioned.
645805	2-Critical	K92637255	LACP PDUs generated by lacpd on i4x00/i2x00 platforms contain incorrect Ethernet source MAC addresses
641248	2-Critical		IPsec-related tmm segfault
641013-5	2-Critical		GRE tunnel traffic pinned to one TMM
638935-3	2-Critical		Monitor with send/receive string containing double-quote may cause upgrade to fail.★
636918-2	2-Critical		Fix for crash when multiple tunnels use the same traffic selector
636290	2-Critical		vCMP support for B4450 blade
627898-2	2-Critical		TMM leaks memory in the ECM subsystem
625824-1	2-Critical		iControl calls related to key and certificate management (Management::KeyCertificate) might leak memory
624263-4	2-Critical		iControl REST API sets non-default profile prop to "none"; properties not present in iControl REST API responseiControl REST API, sets profile's non-default property value as "none"; properties missing in iControl REST API response
618779-1	2-Critical		Route updates during IPsec tunnel setup can cause tmm to restart
616059-1	2-Critical	K19545861	Modifying license.maxcores Not Allowed Error
614296-1	2-Critical		Dynamic routing process ripd may core
613536-5	2-Critical		tmm core while running the iRule STATS:: command
610295-1	2-Critical	K32305923	TMM may crash due to internal backplane inconsistency after reprovisioning
583516-2	2-Critical		tmm ASSERT's "valid node" on Active, after timer fire..
567457-2	2-Critical		TMM may crash when changing the IKE peer config.
652484-2	3-Major		tmsh show net f5optics shows information for only 1 chassis slot in a cluster
649617-2	3-Major		qkview improvement for OVSDB management
648544-5	3-Major	K75510491	HSB transmitter failure may occur when global COS queues enabled
646760	3-Major		Common Criteria Mode Disrupts Administrative SSH Access
644490-1	3-Major		Finisar 100G LR4 values need to be revised in f5optics
637559-1	3-Major		Modifying iRule online could cause TMM to be killed by SIGABRT
636535	3-Major	K24844444	HSB lockup in vCMP guest doesn't generate core file
635961-1	3-Major		gzipped and truncated files may be saved in qkview
635129	3-Major		Chassis systems in HA configuration become Active/Active during upgrade★
635116-1	3-Major	K34100550	Memory leak when using replicated remote high-speed logging.
634115-1	3-Major		Not all topology records may sync.
633879-1	3-Major	K52833014	Fix IKEv1 md5 phase1 hash algorithm so config takes effect
633512-1	3-Major		HA Auto-failback will cause an Active/Active overlap, or flapping, on VIPRION.
633413-1	3-Major		IPv6 addr can't be deleted; not able to add ports to addr in DataGroup object in GUI
631627-4	3-Major		Applying BWC over route domain sometimes results in tmm not becoming ready on system start
630622-1	3-Major		tmm crash possible if high-speed logging pool member is deleted and reused
630610-5	3-Major	K43762031	BFD session interface configuration may not be stored on unit state transition
630546-1	3-Major		Very large core files may cause corrupted qkviews
629499-9	3-Major		tmsh show sys perf command gives an error "011b030d:3: Graph 'dnsx' not found"
629085-1	3-Major	K55278069	Any CSS content truncated at a quoted value leads to a segfault
628202-4	3-Major		Audit-forwarder can take up an excessive amount of memory during a high volume of logging
628164-3	3-Major	K20766432	OSPF with multiple processes may incorrectly redistribute routes
628009-1	3-Major		f5optics not enabled on Herculon iSeries variants HRC-i2800, HRC-i5800, HRC-i10800
627961-3	3-Major	K15130343	nic_failsafe reboot doesn't trigger if HSB fails to disable interface
627914-1	3-Major		Unbundled 40GbE optics reporting as Unsupported Optic
627214-3	3-Major		BGP ECMP recursive default route not redistributed to TMM
626839	3-Major		sys-icheck error for /var/lib/waagent in Azure.
626721-5	3-Major		"reset-stats auth login-failures" command for unknown users causes secondary mcpd processes to restart
625703-2	3-Major		SELinux: snmpd is denied access to tmstat files
625085	3-Major		lasthop rmmod causes kernel panic
624361-1	3-Major		Responses to some of the challenge JS are not zipped.
623930-3	3-Major		vCMP guests with vlangroups may loop packets internally
623401-1	3-Major		Intermittent OCSP request failures due to non-optimal default TCP profile setting
623336-4	3-Major		After an upgrade, the old installation's CA bundle may be used instead of the one that comes with the new version of TMOS★
623055-1	3-Major		Kernel panic during unic initialization
622183-5	3-Major		The alert daemon should remove old log files but it does not.
621909-4	3-Major	K23562314	Uneven egress trunk distribution on 5000/10000 platforms with odd number of trunk members
621273-1	3-Major		DSR tunnels with transparent monitors may cause TMM crash.
620659-3	3-Major		The BIG-IP system may unecessarily run provisioning on successive reboots
620366-4	3-Major		Alertd can not open UDP socket upon restart
617628-1	3-Major		SNMP reports incorrect value for sysBladeTempTemperature OID
615934-1	3-Major		Overwrite flag in various iControl key/certificate management functions is ignored and might result in errors.
615107-1	3-Major		Cannot SSH from AOM/SCCP to host without password (host-based authentication).
613765-3	3-Major		Creating 0.0.0.0:0 Virtual Server in TMUI results in slow-loading virtual server page and name resolution errors.
612809-1	3-Major		Bootup script fails to run on on a vCMP guest due to a missing reference file.
611658-3	3-Major		"less" utility logs an error for remotely authenticated users using the tmsh shell
611512-1	3-Major		AWS: Pool member autoscaling in BIG-IP fails to add pool members when pool name is same as AWS Autoscaling Group name.
611487-3	3-Major		vCMP: VLAN failsafe does not trigger on guest
610417-1	3-Major	K54511423	Insecure ciphers included when device adds another device to the trust. TLSv1 is the only protocol supported.
609119-7	3-Major		Occasionally the logging system prints out a blank message: err mcpd[19114]: 01070711:3:
608320-3	3-Major		iControl REST API sets non-default persistence profile prop to "none"; properties not present in iControl REST API responseiControl REST API, sets persistence profile's non-default property value as "none"; properties missing in iControl REST API response
604727-1	3-Major		Upgrade from 10.2.4 to 12.1.x fails when SNMP trap exists in config from 10.2.4.★
604237-3	3-Major		Vlan allowed mismatch found error in VCMP guest
604061-2	3-Major		Link Aggregation Control Protocol May Lose Synchronization after TMM Crash
602376-1	3-Major		qkview excludes files
598498-7	3-Major		Cannot remove Self IP when an unrelated static ARP entry exists.
598134-1	3-Major		Stats query may generate an error when tmm on secondary is down
596067-2	3-Major		GUI on VIPRION hangs on secondary blade reboot
590211-2	3-Major		jitterentropy-rngd quietly fails to start
583754-7	3-Major		When TMM is down, executing 'show ltm persist persist-records' results in a blank error message.
575027-1	3-Major		Tagged VLAN configurations with a cmp-hash setting for the VLAN, might result in performance issues.
562928-2	3-Major		Curl connections with 'local-port' option fail sometimes over IPsec tunnels when connection.vlankeyed db variable is disabled
559080-5	3-Major		High Speed Logging to specific destinations stops from individual TMMs
557471-3	3-Major		LTM Policy statistics showing zeros in GUI
543208-1	3-Major		Upgrading to v12.x or later in a sync-failover group might cause mcpd to become unresponsive.★
534520-1	3-Major		qkview may exclude certain log files from /var/log
424542-5	3-Major		tmsh modify net interface with invalid interface name or attributes will create an interface in cluster or VE environments
418349-2	3-Major		Update/overwrite of FIPS keys error
643404-2	4-Minor	K30014507	'tmsh system software status' does not display properly in a specific cc-mode situation★
636520-3	4-Minor	K88813435	Detail missing from power supply 'Bad' status log messages
633181-1	4-Minor		A CSR generated from Configuration Utility or tmsh may have an empty 'Attributes' or 'Requested Extensions' section
632668-5	4-Minor		When a BIG-IP using BFD sessions is forced offline, the system continues to send "State Up" BFD packets for ~30 seconds
632069-3	4-Minor		Sudo vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-7032, CVE-2016-7076
621957-2	4-Minor		Timezone data on AOM not syncing with host
609107-1	4-Minor		mcpd does not properly validate missing 'sys folder' config in bigip_base.conf
599191-2	4-Minor		One of the config-sync scenarios causes old FIPS keys to be left in the FIPS card
589379-2	4-Minor	K20937139	ZebOS adds and deletes an extraneous LSA after deleting a route that matches a summary suppression route.
585097-1	4-Minor		Traffic Group score formula does not result in unique values.
541550-3	4-Minor		Defining more than 10 remote-role groups can result in authentication failure
541320-10	4-Minor	K50973424	Sync of tunnels might cause restore of deleted tunnels.
500452-8	4-Minor	K28520025	PB4300 blade doesn't disaggregate ESP traffic based on IP addresses in hardware
642015-2	5-Cosmetic		SSD Manufacturer "unavailable"
524277-2	5-Cosmetic		Missing power supplies issue warning message that should be just a notice message.

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
651476	2-Critical		bigd may core on non-primary bigd when FQDN in use
648715-2	2-Critical		BIG-IP i2x00 and ix4x00 platforms send LLDP, STP, and LACP PDUs with a VLAN tag of 0
643396-2	2-Critical	K34553627	Using FLOW_INIT iRule may lead to TMM memory leak or crash
642400-2	2-Critical		Path MTU discovery occasionally fails
640352-2	2-Critical	K01000259	Connflow can be leaked when DHCP proxy in forwarding mode with giaddr set in DHCP renewal packet
639744-1	2-Critical	K84228882	Memory leak in STREAM::expression iRule
637181-4	2-Critical		VIP-on-VIP traffic may stall after routing updates
632685	2-Critical		bigd memory leak for FQDN nodes on non-primary bigd instance
630306-1	2-Critical		TMM crash in DNS processing on UDP virtual server with no available pool members
629145-1	2-Critical		External datagroups with no metadata can crash tmm
628890-1	2-Critical		Memory leak when modifying large datagroups
627403-2	2-Critical		HTTP2 can can crash tmm when stats is updated on aborting of a new connection
626311-2	2-Critical	K75419237	Potential failure of DHCP relay functionality credits to incorrect route lookup.
625198-1	2-Critical		TMM might crash when TCP DSACK is enabled
622856-1	2-Critical		BIG-IP may enter SYN cookie mode later than expected
621870-2	2-Critical		Outage may occur with VIP-VIP configurations
619663-3	2-Critical	K49220140	Terminating of HTTP2 connection may cause a TMM crash
619528-4	2-Critical		TMM may accumulate internal events resulting in TMM restart
619071-3	2-Critical		OneConnect with verified accept issues
614509-1	2-Critical		iRule use of 'all' keyword with 'class match' on large external datagroups may result in TMM restart
609027-1	2-Critical		TMM crashes when SSL forward proxy is enabled.
608304-1	2-Critical	K55292305	TMM crash on memory corruption
603667-2	2-Critical		TMM may leak or corrupt memory when configuration changes occur with plugins in use
603082-3	2-Critical		Ephemeral pool members are getting deleted/created over and over again.
602136-5	2-Critical		iRule drop command causes tmm segfault or still sends 3-way handshake to the server.
601828-1	2-Critical	K13338433	An untrusted certificate can cause tmm to crash.
600982-5	2-Critical		TMM crashes at ssl_cache_sid() with "prf->cache.sid == 0"
599720-2	2-Critical		TMM may crash in bigtcp due to null pointer dereference
597828-1	2-Critical		SSL forward proxy crashes in some cases
596450-1	2-Critical		TMM may produce a core file after updating SSL session ticket key
594642-3	2-Critical		Stream filter may require large allocations by Tcl leading TMM to core on allocation failure.
581746-1	2-Critical	K42175594	MPTCP or SSL traffic handling may cause a BIG-IP outage
557358-5	2-Critical		TMM SIGSEGV and crash when memory allocation fails.
423629-3	2-Critical	K08454006	bigd cores when route-domain tagged to a pool with monitor as gateway_ICMP is deleted
653201	3-Major		Update the default CA certificate bundle file to the latest version and remove expiring certificates from it
651106	3-Major		memory leak on non-primary bigd with changing node IPs
649571-1	3-Major		Limits set in Server SSL Profile are not enforced if the server ignores BIG-IP's renegotiation ClientHello
648990	3-Major		Serverside SSL renegotiation does not occur after block cipher data limit is exceeded
641512-4	3-Major	K51064420	DNSSEC key generations fail with lots of invalid SSL traffic
632324-2	3-Major		PVA stats does not show correct connection number
629412-3	3-Major		BIG-IP closes a connection when a maximum size window is attempted
627246-1	3-Major	K09336400	TMM memory leak when ASM policy configured on virtual server
626386-1	3-Major	K28505256	SSL may not be reassembling fragments correctly with a large-sized client certificate when SSL persistence is enabled
626106-3	3-Major		LTM Policy with illegal rule name loses its conditions and actions during upgrade★
625106-2	3-Major		Policy Sync can fail over a lossy network
624616-1	3-Major		Safenet uninstall is unable to remove libgem.so
620625-2	3-Major	K38094257	Changes to the Connection.VlanKeyed DB key may not immediately apply
620079-3	3-Major		Removing route-domain may cause monitors to fail
619849-4	3-Major		In rare cases, TMM will enter an infinite loop and be killed by sod when the system has TCP virtual servers with verified-accept enabled.
618430-2	3-Major		iRules LX data not included in qkview
618428	3-Major		iRules LX - Debug mode does not function in dedicated mode
618254-4	3-Major		Non-zero Route domain is not always used in HTTP explicit proxy
617858-2	3-Major		bigd core when using Tcl monitors
616022-2	3-Major	K46530223	The BIG-IP monitor process fails to process timeout conditions
613326-1	3-Major		SASP monitor improvements
612694-5	3-Major		TCP::close with no pool member results in zombie flows
610429-5	3-Major		X509::cert_fields iRule command may memory with subpubkey argument
610302-1	3-Major		Link throughput graphs might be incorrect.
609244-4	3-Major		tmsh show ltm persistence persist-records leaks memory
608551-3	3-Major		Half-closed congested SSL connections with unclean shutdown might stall.
607152-1	3-Major		Large Websocket frames corrupted
604496-4	3-Major		SQL (Oracle) monitor daemon might hang.
603979-4	3-Major		Data transfer from the BIG-IP system self IP might be slow
603723-2	3-Major		TLS v1.0 fallback can be triggered intermittently and fail with restrictive server setup
603550-1	3-Major	K63164073	Virtual servers that use both FastL4 and HTTP profiles at same time will have incorrect syn cache stats.
600827-8	3-Major	K21220807	Stuck Nitrox crypto queue can erroneously be reported
600593-1	3-Major		Use of HTTP Explicit Proxy and OneConnect can lead to an issue with CONNECT HTTP requests
600052-1	3-Major		GUI displaying "Internal Server Error" page when there many (~3k) certs/keys in the system
599121-2	3-Major	K24036315	Under heavy load, hardware crypto queues may become unavailable.
592871-3	3-Major		Cavium Nitrox PX/III stuck queue diagnostics missing.
591666-3	3-Major		TMM crash in DNS processing on TCP virtual with no available pool members
589400-1	3-Major		With Nagle disabled, TCP does not send all of xfrags with size greater than MSS.
586738-4	3-Major		The tmm might crash with a segfault.
584471-1	3-Major		Priority order of clientssl profile selection of virtual server.
584310-1	3-Major	K83393638	TCP:Collect ignores the 'skip' parameter when used in serverside events
584029-6	3-Major		Fragmented packets may cause tmm to core under heavy load
582769-1	3-Major	K99405272	WebSockets frames are not forwarded with Websocket profile and ASM enabled on virtual
579926-1	3-Major		HTTP starts dropping traffic for a half-closed connection when in passthrough mode
568543-4	3-Major		Syncookie mode is activated on wildcard virtuals
562267-3	3-Major		FQDN nodes do not support monitor alias destinations.
517756-6	3-Major		Existing connections can choose incorrect route when crossing non-strict route-domains
509858-5	3-Major	K36300805	BIG-IP FastL4 profile vulnerability
419741-3	3-Major		Rare crash with vip-targeting-vip and stale connections on VIPRION platforms
352957-4	3-Major	K03005026	Route lookup after change in route table on established flow ignores pool members
660170-1	4-Minor	K28505910	tmm may crash at ~75% of VLAN failsafe timeout expiration
631862-1	4-Minor	K32107573	Stream is not finalized when OWS response has Transfer-Encoding header with zero-size chunk
618517-1	4-Minor	K61255401	bigd may falsely complain of a file descriptor leak when it cannot open its debug log file; bigd stops monitoring
611161-3	4-Minor	K28540353	VLAN failsafe generates traffic using ICMP which fails if VLAN CMP hash is non-default.
587966-1	4-Minor	K77283304	LTM FastL4 DNS virtual server: first A query dropped when A and AAAA requested at the same time with same source IP:port
583943-1	4-Minor	K27491104	Forward proxy does not work when netHSM is configured on TMM interfaces
574020-5	4-Minor		Safenet HSM installation script fails to install successfully if partition password contains special metacharacters (!#{}')

Performance Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
621115-1	2-Critical		IP/IPv6 TTL/hoplimit may not be preserved for host traffic

Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
642039-2	2-Critical		TMM core when persist is enabled for wideip with certain iRule commands triggered.
584374-2	2-Critical	K67622400	iRule cmd: RESOLV::lookup causes tmm crash when resolving an IP address.
642330-2	3-Major		GTM Monitor with send/receive string containing double-quote may cause upgrade to fail.★
640903-1	3-Major		Inbound WideIP list page on Link Controller takes a long time to load when displaying 50+ records per screen
632423-4	3-Major		DNS::query can cause tmm crash if AXFR/IXFR types specified.
629530-2	3-Major	K53675033	Under certain conditions, monitors do not time out.
628897-1	3-Major		Add Hyperlink to gslb server and vs on the Pool Member List Page
625671-4	3-Major		The diagnostic tool dnsxdump may crash with non-standard DNS RR types.
624876-1	3-Major		Response Policy Zones can trigger even after entry removed from zone
624193-2	3-Major		Topology load balancing not working as expected
623023-1	3-Major		Unable to set DNS Topology Continent to Unknown via GUI
621239-2	3-Major		Certain DNS queries bypass DNS Cache RPZ filter.
620215-5	3-Major		TMM out of memory causes core in DNS cache
619398-7	3-Major		TMM out of memory causes core in DNS cache
612769-1	3-Major	K33842313	Hard to use search capabilities on the Pool Members Manage page.
601180-2	3-Major	K73505027	Link Controller base license does not allow DNS namespace iRule commands.★
567743-2	3-Major	K70663134	Possible gtmd crash under certain conditions.
557434-4	3-Major		After setting a Last Resort Pool on a Wide IP, cannot reset back to None
366695-1	5-Cosmetic		Remove managers create/modify/delete ability from TMSH on GTM datacenters, links, servers, prober-pools, and topology errors incorrectly, and receive a database error when performed

Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
646511-1	2-Critical		BD crashes repeatedly after interrupted roll-forward upgrade★
636397-1	2-Critical		bd cores when persistent storage configuration and under some memory conditions.
634001-2	2-Critical		ASM restarts after deleting a VS that has an ASM security policy assigned to it
627117-1	2-Critical		crash with wrong ceritifcate in WSS
625783-1	2-Critical		Chassis sync fails intermittently due to sync file backlog
618771-1	2-Critical		Some Social Security Numbers are not being masked
601378-2	2-Critical		Creating an ASM security policy with "Auto accept" language leads to numerous errors in asm log and restarts of 'pabnagd' and 'asm_config_server' daemons
584082-3	2-Critical		BD daemon crashes unexpectedly
540928-1	2-Critical		Memory leak due to unnecessary logging profile configuration updates.
640824-1	3-Major	K20770267	Upgrade fails with "DBD::mysql::db do failed: Too many partitions (including subpartitions) were defined" errors in ASM log★
635754-1	3-Major	K65531575	Wildcard URL pattern match works inncorectly in Traffic Learning
632344-2	3-Major		POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING causes false positive
632326-2	3-Major	K52814351	relax_unicode_in_xml/json internal may still trigger a false positive Malformed XML violation
631737-1	3-Major	K61367823	ArcSight cs4 (attack_type) is N/A for certain HTTP Compliance sub-violations
630929-1	3-Major	K69767100	Attack signature exception list upload times-out and fails
627360-1	3-Major		Upgrade fails with "DBD::mysql::db do failed: Too many partitions (including subpartitions) were defined" errors in ASM log★
625832-4	3-Major		A false positive modified domain cookie violation
622913-2	3-Major		Audit Log filled with constant change messages
621524-2	3-Major		Processing Timeout When Viewing a Request with 300+ Violations
620635-2	3-Major		Request having upper case JSON login parameter is not detected as a failed login attempt
611151-2	3-Major		An upper case JSON sensitive parameter is not masked when ASM policy is case-insensitive
608245	3-Major		Reporting missing parameter details when attack signature is matched against parameter value
581406-1	3-Major		SQL Error on Peer Device After Receiving ASM Sync in a Device Group
580168-4	3-Major		Information missing from ASM event logs after a switchboot and switchboot back
576591-6	3-Major		Support for some future credit card number ranges
572885-1	3-Major		Policy automatic learning mode changes to manual after failover
392121-3	3-Major		TMSH Command to retrieve the memory consumption of the bd process
642874-1	4-Minor	K15329152	Ready to be Enforced filter for Policy Signatures returns too many signatures

Application Visibility and Reporting Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
634215-1	2-Critical		False detection of attack after restarting dosl7d
573764-1	2-Critical		In some cases, only primary blade retains it's statistics after upgrade on multi bladed system
642221-2	3-Major		Incorrect entity is used when exporting TCP analytics from GUI
641574	3-Major	K06503033	AVR doesn't report on virtual and client IP in DNS statistics
635561-1	3-Major		Heavy URLs statistics are not shown after upgrade.
631722	3-Major		Some HTTP statistics not displayed after upgrade
631131-3	3-Major		Some tmstat-adapters based reports stats are incorrect
605010-1	3-Major		Thrift::TException error
560114-6	3-Major		Monpd is being affected by an I/O issue which makes some of its threads freeze

Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
645339-2	1-Blocking		TMM may crash when processing APM data
637308-8	2-Critical	K41542530	apmd may crash when HTTP Auth agent is used in an Access Policy
632005-1	2-Critical		BIG-IP as SAML SP: Objects created by IdP connector automation may not be updated when remote metadata changes
622244-2	2-Critical		Edge client can fail to upgrade when always connected is selected
617310-2	2-Critical		Edge client can fail to upgrade when Always Connected is selected★
614322-1	2-Critical	K31063537	TMM might crash during handling of RDG-RPC connection when APM is used as RD Gateway
608424-2	2-Critical		Dynamic ACL agent error log message contains garbage data
608408-2	2-Critical		TMM may restart if SSO plugin configuration initialization fails due to internal error in tmconf library
593078-1	2-Critical		CATEGORY::filetype command may cause tmm to crash and restart
643547-1	3-Major	K43036745	APMD initialization may fail when large number of access policy agents are configured in access policies installed on BIG-IP
638799-1	3-Major		Per-request policy branch expression evaluation fails
638780-3	3-Major		Handle 302 redirects for VMware Horizon View HTML5 client
636044-1	3-Major	K68018520	Large number of glob patterns affects custom category lookup performance
634576	3-Major	K48181045	TMM core in per-request policy
634252	3-Major	K99114539	TMM crash with per-request policy in SWG explicit
632504-1	3-Major	K31277424	APM Policy Sync: Non-LSO resources such as webtop are listed under dynamic resource list
632499-1	3-Major	K70551821	APM Policy Sync: Resources under webtop section are not sync'ed automatically
632472-1	3-Major		Frequently logged "Silent flag set - fail" messages
632386-1	3-Major		EdgeClient cannot establish iClient control connection to BIG-IP if another control connection exists
630571-1	3-Major	K35254214	Edge Client on Mac OSX Sierra stuck in a reconnect loop
629801-2	3-Major		Access policy is applied automatically on target device after policy sync, when there is a also a FODG in the trust domain.
629698-1	3-Major		Edge client stuck on "Initializing" state
629069-2	3-Major		Portal Access may delete scripts from HTML page in some cases
628687-2	3-Major		Edge Client reconnection issues with captive portal
628685-2	3-Major	K79361498	Edge Client shows several security warnings after roaming to a network with Captive Portal
627972-2	3-Major	K11327511	Unable to save advanced customization when using Exchange iApp
627059-1	3-Major		In some rare cases TMM may crash while handling VMware View client connection
626910-1	3-Major		Policy with assigned SAML Resource is exported with error
625474-1	3-Major		POST request body is not saved in session variable by access when request is sent using edge client
625159-1	3-Major		Policy sync status not shown on standby device in HA case
624966-2	3-Major		Edge client starts new APM session when Captive portal session expire
623562-3	3-Major		Large POSTs rejected after policy already completed
622790-1	3-Major		EdgeClient disconnect may take a lot of time when machine is moved to network with no connectivity to BIG-IP
621976-4	3-Major		OneDrive for Business thick client shows javascript errors when rendering APM logon page
621974-4	3-Major		Skype For Business thick client shows javascript errors when rendering APM logon page
621447-1	3-Major		In some rare cases, VDI may crash
621210-2	3-Major		Policy sync shows as aborted even if it is completed
621126-2	3-Major		Import of config with saml idp connector with reuse causes certificate not found error
620829-2	3-Major		Portal Access / JavaScript code which uses reserved keywords for field names in literal object definition may not work correctly
620801-3	3-Major		Access Policy is not able to check device posture for Android 7 devices
620614-4	3-Major		Citrix PNAgent replacement mode: iOS Citrix receiver fails to add new store account
619879-1	3-Major		HTTP iRule commands could lead to WEBSSO plugin being invoked
619811-2	3-Major		Machine Cert OCSP check fails with multiple Issuer CA
619486-3	3-Major		Scripts on rewritten pages could fail with JavaScript exception if application code modifies window.self
619473-2	3-Major		Browser may hang at APM session logout
618170-3	3-Major		Some URL unwrapping functions can behave bad
617063-1	3-Major		After VPN tunnel established, if network is switched and a Captive Portal is present in the new network, EdgeClient fails to re-establish VPN tunnel
617002-1	3-Major		SWG with Response Analytics agent in a Per-Request policy fails with some URLs
616838-3	3-Major		Citrix Remote desktop resource custom parameter name does not accept hyphen character
615970-1	3-Major		SSO logging level may cause failover
615254-2	3-Major		Network Access Launch Application item fails to launch in some cases
612419-1	3-Major		APM 11.4.1 HF10 - suspected memory leak (umem_alloc_32/network access (variable))
611968-3	3-Major		JavaScript Active content at an HTML page browsed by IE8 with significant amount of links (>1000) can run very slow
611669-4	3-Major		Mac Edge Client customization is not applied on macOS 10.12 Sierra
610180-2	3-Major		SAML Single Logout is misconfigured can cause a minor memory leak in SSO plugin.
597214-5	3-Major		Portal Access / JavaScript code which uses reserved keywords for field names in literal object definition may not work correctly
595819-1	3-Major		Access session 'Bytes In' and 'Bytes Out' are not getting updated (stay at 0) when accessed with a http/2 enabled browser and HTTP/2 profile attached,
595272-1	3-Major		Edge client may show a windows displaying plain text in some cases
591246-1	3-Major		Unable to launch View HTML5 connections in non-zero route domain virtual servers
584582-1	3-Major		JavaScript: 'baseURI' property may be handled incorrectly
570217-2	3-Major		BIG-IP APM now uses Airwatch v2 API to retreive device posture information
533956-3	3-Major	K30515450	Portal Access: Space-like characters in EUC character sets may be handled incorrectly.
503842-4	3-Major		Microsoft WebService HTML component does not work after rewriting
640521-1	4-Minor		EdgeClient does not render Captive Portal login page which uses jQuery library for mobile devices
636254-2	4-Minor		Cannot reinitiate a sync on a target device when sync is completed
618404-1	4-Minor		Access Profile copying might end up in invalid way if series of names.
606257-3	4-Minor	K56716107	TCP FIN sent with Connection: Keep-Alive header for webtop page resources

WebAccelerator Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
630661-2	3-Major	K30241432	WAM may leak memory when a WAM policy node has multiple variation header rules

Wan Optimization Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
644970-1	2-Critical		Editing a virtual server config loses SSL encryption on iSession connections
644489-1	3-Major	K14899014	Unencrypted iSession connection established even though data-encrypt configured in profile

Service Provider Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
639236-1	2-Critical	K66947004	Parser doesn't accept Contact header with expires value set to 0 that is not the last attribute
624023-3	2-Critical		TMM cores in iRule when accessing a SIP header that has no value
569316-1	2-Critical		Core occurs on standby in MRF when routing to a route using a transport config
649933-1	3-Major		Fragmented RADIUS messages may be dropped
629663-1	3-Major	K23210890	CGNAT SIP ALG will drop SIP INVITE
625542-1	3-Major		SIP ALG with Translation fails for REGISTER refresh.
625098-3	3-Major		SCTP::local_port iRule not supported in MRF events
601255-4	3-Major		RTSP response to SETUP request has incorrect client_port attribute

Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
632731-2	2-Critical	K21964367	specific external logging configuration can cause TMM service restart
628623-1	2-Critical		tmm core with AFM provisioned
639193-1	3-Major	K03453591	BIG-IP devices configured with Manual Sync, deleting parent policy causes sync to fail.
631025-1	3-Major		500 internal error on inline rule editor for certain firewall policies
626438-1	3-Major		Frame is not showing in the browser and/ or an error appears
614563-3	3-Major		AVR TPS calculation is inaccurate
610129-3	3-Major	K43320840	Config load failure when cluster management IP is not defined, but instead uses address-list.
592113-5	3-Major		tmm core on the standby unit with dos vectors configured
590805-4	3-Major		Active Rules page displays a different time zone.
583024-1	3-Major		TMM restart rarely during startup
431840-3	3-Major		Cannot add vlans to whitelist if they contain a hyphen

Policy Enforcement Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
627257-2	2-Critical		Potential PEM crash during a Gx operation
626851-2	2-Critical	K37665112	Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes.
624744-1	2-Critical		Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes.
624733-1	2-Critical		Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes.
624228-1	2-Critical		Memory leak when using insert action in pem rule and flow gets aborted
623922-5	2-Critical	K64388805	TMM failure in PEM while processing Service-Provider Disaggregation
641482-2	3-Major		Subscriber remains in delete pending state until CCR-t ack has success as result code is received
640510-3	3-Major		BWC policy category attachment may fail during a PEM policy update for a subscriber.
640457-2	3-Major		Session Creation failure after HA
635233-3	3-Major	K80902149	Missing some Custom AVPs in CCRu for non-existent policy and CCRt messages
630611-1	3-Major	K84324392	PEM module crash when subscriber not fund
627798-3	3-Major		Buffer length check for quota bucket objects
627279-2	3-Major		Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes.
623927-2	3-Major	K41337253	Flow entry memory leaked after DHCP DORA process
564281-3	3-Major		TMM (debug) assert seen during Failover with Gy
628869-4	4-Minor		Unconditional logs seen due to the presence of a PEM iRule.

Carrier-Grade NAT Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
609788	2-Critical		PCP may pick an endpoint outside the deterministic mapping
642284	3-Major		Closing a PCP connection while an asynchronous mapping request is in progress may result in memory corruption.
629871-2	3-Major		FTP ALG deployment should not rewrite PASV response 464 XLAT cases

Fraud Protection Services Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
639750-1	2-Critical		username aliases are not supported
636370	3-Major		Application Layer Encryption AJAX support
629627-1	3-Major		FPS Log Publisher is not grouped nor filtered by partition
629127-1	3-Major		Parent profiles cannot be saved using FPS GUI
628348-1	3-Major		Cannot configure any Mobile Security list having 11 records or more via the GUI
628337-1	3-Major		Forcing a single injected tag configuration is restrictive
625275-1	3-Major		Unable to add and modify URL parameters containing square brackets "[]" in FPS GUI
624198-1	3-Major		Unable to add multiple User-Defined alerts with the same search category
623518-1	3-Major		Unable to add users in User Enforcement list under user-defined partition. Update check fails in user-defined partition
594127-2	3-Major		Pages using Angular may hang when Websafe is enabled
635541	4-Minor		"Application CSS Locations" is not inherited if changing parent profile

Traffic Classification Engine Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
625172-1	2-Critical		tmm crashes when classification is enabled and ftp traffic is flowing trough the box
631472-1	3-Major		Reseting classification signatures to default may result in non-working configuration

Device Management Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
606518-3	2-Critical		iControl REST with 3rd party auth does not function as expected with '@' / email addresses as username.
642983-1	3-Major	K94534313	Update to max message size limit doesn't work sometimes
629845-2	3-Major		Disallowing TLSv1 connections to HTTP causes iControl/REST issues
626542-2	3-Major		Unable to set maxMessageBodySize in iControl REST after upgrade★

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.2 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
618306-2	CVE-2016-9247	K33500120	TMM vulnerability CVE-2016-9247
616864-1	CVE-2016-2776	K18829561	BIND vulnerability CVE-2016-2776
613282-2	CVE-2016-2086, CVE-2016-2216, CVE-2016-1669	K15311661	NodeJS vulnerability CVE-2016-2086
611469-3	CVE-2016-7467	K95444512	Traffic disrupted when malformed, signed SAML authentication request from an authenticated user is sent via SP connector
597394-2	CVE-2016-9252	K46535047	Improper handling of IP options
591328-7	CVE-2016-2108 CVE-2016-2107 CVE-2016-2105 CVE-2016-2106 CVE-2016-2109	K36488941	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2106
591325-8	CVE-2016-2108 CVE-2016-2107 CVE-2016-2105 CVE-2016-2106 CVE-2016-2109	K75152412	OpenSSL (May 2016) CVE-2016-2108,CVE-2016-2107,CVE-2016-2105,CVE-2016-2106,CVE-2016-2109
591042-17	CVE-2016-2108,CVE-2016-2107,CVE-2016-2105,CVE-2016-2106,CVE-2016-2109	K23230229	OpenSSL vulnerabilities
560109-7	CVE-2017-6160	K19430431	Client capabilities failure
618549-1	CVE-2016-9249	K71282001	Fast Open can cause TMM crash CVE-2016-9249
618263-1	CVE-2016-2182	K01276005	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2182
614147-1	CVE-2017-6157	K02692210	SOCKS proxy defect resolution
614097-1	CVE-2017-6157	K02692210	HTTP Explicit proxy defect resolution
607314-1	CVE-2016-3500 CVE-2016-3508	K25075696	Oracle Java vulnerability CVE-2016-3500, CVE-2016-3508
605039-3	CVE-2016-2775	K92991044	lwresd and bind vulnerability CVE-2016-2775
601059-6	CVE-2016-1762 CVE-2016-1833 CVE-2016-1834 CVE-2016-1835 CVE-2016-1836 CVE-2016-1837 CVE-2016-1838 CVE-2016-1839 CVE-2016-1840 CVE-2016-3627 CVE-2016-3705 CVE-2016-4447 CVE-2016-4448 CVE-2016-4449	K14614344	libxml2 vulnerability CVE-2016-1840
599536-1	CVE-2017-6156	K05263202	IPsec peer with wildcard selector brings up wrong phase2 SAs
597023-1	CVE-2016-4954	K82644737	NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-4954
595242-1	CVE-2016-3705	K54225343	libxml2 vulnerabilities CVE-2016-3705
595231-1	CVE-2016-3627	K54225343	libxml2 vulnerabilities CVE-2016-3627 and CVE-2016-3705
594496-1	CVE-2016-4539	K35240323	PHP Vulnerability CVE-2016-4539
593447-1	CVE-2016-5024	K92859602	BIG-IP TMM iRules vulnerability CVE-2016-5024
592485	CVE-2015-5157 CVE-2015-8767	K17326	Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2015-5157
592001-1	CVE-2016-4071 CVE-2016-4073	K64412100	CVE-2016-4073 PHP vulnerabilities
591455-7	CVE-2016-1550 CVE-2016-1548 CVE-2016-2516 CVE-2016-2518	K24613253	NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-2516
591447-1	CVE-2016-4070	K42065024	PHP vulnerability CVE-2016-4070
591358-1	CVE-2016-3425 CVE-2016-0695 CVE-2016-3427	K81223200	Oracle Java SE vulnerability CVE-2016-3425
585424-1	CVE-2016-1979	K20145801	Mozilla NSS vulnerability CVE-2016-1979
580747-1	CVE-2016-0739	K57255643	libssh vulnerability CVE-2016-0739
557190-3	CVE-2017-6166	K65615624	'packet_free: double free!' tmm core
597010-1	CVE-2016-4955	K03331206	NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-4955
596997-1	CVE-2016-4956	K64505405	NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-4956
591767-8	CVE-2016-1547	K11251130	NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-1547
591438-7	CVE-2015-8865	K54924436	PHP vulnerability CVE-2015-8865
575629-3	CVE-2015-8139	K00329831	NTP vulnerability: CVE-2015-8139
573343-1	CVE-2015-7977 CVE-2015-7978 CVE-2015-7979 CVE-2015-8158	K01324833	NTP vulnerability CVE-2015-8158

Functional Change Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
615377-3	3-Major		Unexpected rate limiting of unreachable and ICMP messages for some addresses.
590122-2	3-Major		Standard TLS version rollback detection for TLSv1 or earlier might need to be relaxed to interoperate with clients that violate TLS specification.
581438-2	3-Major		Allow more than 16 pool members to be chosen from a pool during a single load-balancing decision.
561348-7	3-Major		krb5.conf file is not synchronized between blades and not backed up
541549-2	3-Major		AWS AMIs for BIG-IP VE will now have volumes set to be deleted upon instance termination.
530109-3	3-Major		OCSP Agent does not honor the AIA setting in the client cert even though 'Ignore AIA' option is disabled.
246726-1	3-Major	K8940	System continues to process virtual server traffic after disabling virtual address
599839-3	4-Minor		Add new keyords to SIP::persist command to specify how Persistence table is updated
591733-4	4-Minor	K83175883	Save on Auto-Sync is missing from the configuration utility.

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
625784	1-Blocking		TMM crash on i4x00 and i2x00 platforms with large ASM configuration.
617622	1-Blocking		In TM Shell, saving the AAM configuration removes value from matching rule causing system configuration loading failure
621422	2-Critical		i2000 and i4000 series appliances do not warn when an incorrect optic is in a port
620056-1	2-Critical		Assert on deletion of paired in-and-out IPsec traffic selectors
617935	2-Critical		IKEv2 VPN tunnels fail to establish
617481-1	2-Critical		TMM can crash when HTML minification is configured
614865-5	2-Critical		Overwrite flag in iControl functions key/certificate_import_from_pem functions is ignored and might result in errors.
610354-1	2-Critical		TMM crash on invalid memory access to loopback interface stats object
605476-3	2-Critical		statsd can core when reading corrupt stats files.
601527-4	2-Critical		mcpd memory leak and core
600894-1	2-Critical		In certain situations, the MCPD process can leak memory
598748	2-Critical		IPsec AES-GCM IVs are now based on a monotonically increasing counter
598697-1	2-Critical		vCMP guests may fail after vCMP host system is upgraded to BIG-IP v12.1.x when 'qemu' user isn't created★
595712-1	2-Critical		Not able to add remote user locally
591495-2	2-Critical		VCMP guests sflow agent can crash due to duplicate vlan interface indices
591104-1	2-Critical		ospfd cores due to an incorrect debug statement.
588686	2-Critical		High-speed logging to remote logging node stops sending logs after all logging nodes go down
587698-3	2-Critical		bgpd crashes when ip extcommunity-list standard with route target(rt) and Site-of-origin (soo) parameters are configured
585745-2	2-Critical		sod core during upgrade from 10.x to 12.x.
583936-5	2-Critical		Removing ECMP route from BGP does not clear route from NSM
557680-4	2-Critical		Fast successive MTU changes to IPsec tunnel interface crashes TMM
355806-7	2-Critical		Starting mcpd manually at the command line interferes with running mcpd
622877-1	3-Major		i2000 and i4000 series appliances may show intermittent DDM alarms/warnings at powerup that clear right away
622199	3-Major		sys-icheck reports error with /var/lib/waagent
622194	3-Major		sys-icheck reports error with ssh_host_rsa_key
621423	3-Major		sys-icheck reports error with /config/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
621242-1	3-Major		Reserve enough space in the image for future upgrades.
621225	3-Major		LTM log contains misleading error messages for front panel interfaces, "PCI Device not found for Interface X.0"
620782	3-Major		Azure cloud now supports hourly billing
619410-1	3-Major		TMM hardware accelerated compression not registering for all compression levels.
617986-2	3-Major		Memory leak in snmpd
617229-1	3-Major	K54245014	Local policy rule descriptions disappear when policy is re-saved
616242-3	3-Major	K39944245	basic_string::compare error in encrypted SSL key file if the first line of the file is blank★
614530-2	3-Major		Dynamic ECMP routes missing from Linux host
614180-1	3-Major		ASM is not available in LTM policy when ASM is licensed as the main active module
610441-3	3-Major		When using iControl REST to add a member to an existing pool, the pool member is successfully created. However, a 404 response is received.
610352-1	3-Major		sys-icheck reports error with /etc/sysconfig/modules/unic.modules
610350-1	3-Major		sys-icheck reports error with /config/bigpipe/defaults.scf
610273-3	3-Major		Not possible to do targeted failover with HA Group configured
605894-3	3-Major		Remote authentication for BIG-IP users can fail
603149-2	3-Major		Large ike-phase2-lifetime-kilobytes values in racoon ipsec-policy
602854-8	3-Major		Missing ASM control option from LTM policy rule screen in the Configuration utility
602502-2	3-Major		Unable to view the SSL Cert list from the GUI
601989-3	3-Major	K88516119	Remote LDAP system authenticated username is case sensitive★
601893-2	3-Major		TMM crash in bwc_ctb_instance_recharge because of pkts_avg_size is zero.
601502-4	3-Major		Excessive OCSP traffic
600558-5	3-Major		Errors logged after deleting user in GUI
599816-2	3-Major		Packet redirections occur when using VLAN groups with members that have different cmp-hash settings.
598443-1	3-Major		Temporary files from TMSH not being cleaned up intermittently.
598039-6	3-Major		MCP memory may leak when performing a wildcard query
597729-5	3-Major		Errors logged after deleting user in GUI
596104-1	3-Major	K84539934	HA trunk unavailable for vCMP guest★
595773-4	3-Major		Cancellation requests for chunked stats queries do not propagate to secondary blades
594426-2	3-Major		Audit forwarding Radius packets may be rejected by Radius server
592870-2	3-Major		Fast successive MTU changes to IPsec tunnel interface crashes TMM
592320-5	3-Major		ePVA does not offload UDP when pva-offload-state set to establish in BIG-IP 12.1.0 and 12.1.1
589083-2	3-Major	K46205123	TMSH and iControl REST: When logged in as a remote user who has the admin role, cannot save config because of permission errors.
586878-4	3-Major		During upgrade, configuration fails to load due to clientssl profile with empty cert/key configuration.★
585833-3	3-Major		Qkview will abort if /shared partition has less than 2GB free space
585547-1	3-Major	K58243048	NTP configuration items are no longer collected by qkview★
585485-3	3-Major		inter-ability with "delete IPSEC-SA" between AZURE, ASA, and the BIG-IP system
584583-3	3-Major	K18410170	Timeout error when using the REST API to retrieve large amount of data
583285-5	3-Major	K24331010	BIG-IP logs INVALID-SPI messages but does not remove the associated SAs.
582084-1	3-Major		BWC policy in device sync groups.
580500-1	3-Major		/etc/logrotate.d/sysstat's sadf fails to read /var/log/sa6 or fails to write to /var/log/sa6, disk space is not reclaimed.
578551-5	3-Major		bop "network 0.0.0.0/0 route-map Default" configuration is lost after after restart/reboot
576305-7	3-Major		Potential MCPd leak in IPSEC SPD stats query code
575649-5	3-Major		MCPd might leak memory in IPFIX destination stats query
575591-6	3-Major		Potential MCPd leak in IKE message stats query code
575589-5	3-Major		Potential MCPd leak in IKE event stats query code
575587-7	3-Major		Potential MCPd leak in BWC policy class stats query code
575176-1	3-Major		Syn Cookie cache statistics on ePVA enabled devices is incremented with UDP traffic
575066-1	3-Major		Management DHCP settings do not take effect
570818-4	3-Major		Address lease-pool in IKEv2 might interfere with IKEv2 negotiations.
568672-1	3-Major		Down IPsec traffic-selector shows as 'up' in 'show net ipsec traffic-selector' and in GUI
566507-4	3-Major		Wrong advertised next-hop in BGP for a traffic group in Active-Active deployment
553795-7	3-Major		Differing certificate/key after successful config-sync
547479-5	3-Major		Under unknown circumstances sometimes a sessionDB subkey entry becomes corrupted
546145-1	3-Major		Creating local user for previously remote user results in incomplete user definition.
540872-1	3-Major		Config sync fails after creating a partition.
527206-5	3-Major		Management interface may flap due to LOP sync error
393270-1	3-Major		Configuration utility may become non-responsive or fail to load.
618421	4-Minor		Some mass storage is left un-used
617124	4-Minor		Cannot map hardware type (12) to HardwareType enumeration
581835-1	4-Minor		Command failing: tmsh show ltm virtual vs_name detail.
567546-1	4-Minor		Files with file names larger than 100 characters are omitted from qkview
564771-1	4-Minor		cron sends purge_mysql_logs.pl email error on LTM-only device
564522-2	4-Minor	K40547220	cron is configured with MAILTO=root but mailhost defaults to 'mail'
559837-4	4-Minor		Misleading error message in catalina.out when listing certificates.
551349-5	4-Minor	K80203854	Non-explicit (*) IPv4 monitor destination address is converted to IPv6 on upgrade★
460833-5	4-Minor		MCPD sync errors and restart after multiple modifications to file object in chassis
572133-5	5-Cosmetic		tmsh save /sys ucs command sends status messages to stderr
442231-4	5-Cosmetic		Pendsect log entries have an unexpected severity

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
618905-1	1-Blocking		tmm core while installing Safenet 6.2 client
616215-4	2-Critical		TMM can core when using LB::detach and TCP::notify commands in an iRule
615388-1	2-Critical		L7 policies using normalized HTTP URI or Referrer operands may corrupt memory
612229-1	2-Critical		TMM may crash if LTM a disable policy action for 'LTM Policy' is not last
609628-2	2-Critical		CLIENTSSL_SERVERHELLO_SEND event in SSL forward proxy is not raised when client reuses session
609199-6	2-Critical		Debug TMM produces core when an MPTCP connection times out while a subflow is trying to join
608555-1	2-Critical		Configuring asymmetric routing with a VE rate limited license will result in tmm crash
607724-2	2-Critical	K25713491	TMM may crash when in Fallback state.
607524-2	2-Critical		Memory leak when multiple DHCP servers are configured, and the last DHCP server configured is down.
607360-5	2-Critical		Safenet 6.2 library missing after upgrade★
606573-3	2-Critical		FTP traffic does not work through SNAT when configured without Virtual Server★
605865-4	2-Critical		Debug TMM produces core on certain ICMP PMTUD packets
604133-2	2-Critical		Ramcache may leave the HTTP Cookie Cache in an inconsistent state
603032-1	2-Critical		clientssl profiles with sni-default enabled may leak X509 objects
602326-1	2-Critical		Intermittent pkcs11d core when installing Safenet 6.2 software
599135-2	2-Critical		B2250 blades may suffer from high TMM CPU utilisation with tcpdump
588959-2	2-Critical	K34453301	TMM may crash or behave abnormally on a Standby BIG-IP unit
588351-5	2-Critical		IPv6 fragments are dropped when packet filtering is enabled.
586449-1	2-Critical		Incorrect error handling in HTTP cookie results in core when TMM runs out of memory
584213-1	2-Critical		Transparent HTTP profiles cannot have iRules configured
575011-1	2-Critical	K21137299	Memory leak. Nitrox3 Hang Detected.
574880-3	2-Critical		Excessive failures observed when connection rate limit is configured on a fastl4 virtual server.
549329-3	2-Critical	K02020031	L7 mirrored ACK from standby to active box can cause tmm core on active
545810-3	2-Critical	K14304373	TMM halts and restarts
459671-4	2-Critical		iRules source different procs from different partitions and executes the incorrect proc.
617862-2	3-Major		Fastl4 handshake timeout is absolute instead of relative
617824-3	3-Major		"SSL::disable/enable serverside" + oneconnect reuse is broken
615143-1	3-Major		VDI plugin-initiated connections may select inappropriate SNAT address
613429-2	3-Major		Unable to assign wildcard wide IPs to various BIG-IP DNS objects.
613369-4	3-Major		Half-Open TCP Connections Not Discoverable
613079-4	3-Major		Diameter monitor watchdog timeout fires after only 3 seconds
613065-1	3-Major		User can't generate netHSM key with Safenet 6.2 client using GUI
612040-4	3-Major		Statistics added for all crypto queues
611320-3	3-Major		Mirrored connection on Active unit of HA pair may be unexpectedly torndown
610609-3	3-Major		Total connections in bigtop, SNMP are incorrect
608024-3	3-Major		Unnecessary DTLS retransmissions occur during handshake.
607803-3	3-Major	K33954223	DTLS client (serverssl profile) fails to complete resumed handshake.
607304-5	3-Major		TMM is killed by SOD (missing heartbeat) during geoip_reload performing munmap.
606940-3	3-Major		Clustered Multiprocessing (CMP) peer connection may not be removed
606575-6	3-Major		Request-oriented OneConnect load balancing ends when the server returns an error status code.
606565-2	3-Major	K52231531	TMM may crash when /sys db tm.simultaneousopen is set to reset or drop_connection
604977-2	3-Major	K08905542	Wrong alert when DTLS cookie size is 32
603236-1	3-Major		1024 and 4096 size key creation issue with SafeNet 6.2 with 6.10.9 firmware
602385-1	3-Major		Add zLib compression
602366-1	3-Major		Safenet 6.2 HA performance
602358-5	3-Major		BIG-IP ServerSSL connection may reset during rengotiation with some SSL/TLS servers due to ClientHello version
601496-4	3-Major		iRules and OCSP Stapling
601178-6	3-Major		HTTP cookie persistence 'preferred' encryption
598874-2	3-Major		GTM Resolver sends FIN after SYN retransmission timeout
597978-2	3-Major		GARPs may be transmitted by active going offline
597879-1	3-Major		CDG Congestion Control can lead to instability
597532-1	3-Major		iRule: RADIUS avp command returns a signed integer
597089-8	3-Major		Connections are terminated after 5 seconds when using ePVA full acceleration
593530-6	3-Major		In rare cases, connections may fail to expire
592784-2	3-Major		Compression stalls, does not recover, and compression facilities cease.
592497-1	3-Major		Idle timeout ineffective for FIN_WAIT_2 when server-side expired and HTTP in fallback state.
591659-5	3-Major	K47203554	Server shutdown is propagated to client after X-Cnection: close transformation.
591476-7	3-Major	K53220379	Stuck crypto queue can erroneously be reported
591343-5	3-Major	K03842525	SSL::sessionid output is not consistent with the sessionid field of ServerHello message.
589223-1	3-Major		TMM crash and core dump when processing SSL protocol alert.
588115-1	3-Major		TMM may crash with traffic to floating self-ip in range overlapping route via unreachable gw
588089-3	3-Major		SSL resumed connections may fail during mirroring
587016-3	3-Major		SIP monitor in TLS mode marks pool member down after positive response.
585813-3	3-Major		SIP monitor with TLS mode fails to find cert and key files.
585412-4	3-Major		SMTPS virtual server with activation-mode allow will RST non-TLS connections with Email bodies with very long lines
583957-6	3-Major		The TMM may hang handling pipelined HTTP requests with certain iRule commands.
582465-1	3-Major		Cannot generate key after SafeNet HSM is rebooted
580303-5	3-Major		When going from active to offline, tmm might send a GARP for a floating address.
579843-1	3-Major		tmrouted may not re-announce routes after a specific succession of failover states
579371-4	3-Major	K70126130	BIG-IP may generate ARPs after transition to standby
578951-2	3-Major		TCP Fast Open connection timeout during handshake does not decrement pre_established_connections
572281-5	3-Major		Variable value in the nesting script of foreach command get reset when there is parking command in the script
570057-2	3-Major		Can't install more than 16 SafeNet HSMs in its HA group
569288-6	3-Major		Different LACP key may be used in different blades in a chassis system causing trunking failures
565799-4	3-Major		CPU Usage increases when using masquerade addresses
551208-6	3-Major		Nokia alarms are not deleted due to the outdated alert_nokia.conf.
550161-4	3-Major		Networking devices might block a packet that has a TTL value higher than 230.
545796-5	3-Major		[iRule] [Stats] iRule is not generating any stats for executed iRules.
545450-5	3-Major		Log activation/deactivation of TM.TCPMemoryPressure
537553-8	3-Major		tmm might crash after modifying virtual server SSL profiles in SNI configuration
534457-4	3-Major		Dynamically discovered routes might fail to remirror connections.
530266-7	3-Major		Rate limit configured on a node can be exceeded
506543-5	3-Major		Disabled ephemeral pool members continue to receive new connections
483953-1	3-Major		Cached route MTUs may be set to the value of TM.MinPathMTU even if the path MTU is lower than that value.
472571-7	3-Major		Memory leak with multiple client SSL profiles.
464801-3	3-Major		Intermittent tmm core
423392-6	3-Major		tcl_platform is no longer in the static:: namespace
371164-1	3-Major		BIG-IP sends ND probes for all masquerading MAC addresses on all VLANs, so MAC might associated with multiple VLANs.
225634-1	3-Major	K12947	The rate class feature does not honor the Burst Size setting.
598860-4	4-Minor		IP::addr iRule with an IPv6 address and netmask fails to return an IPv4 address
587676-2	4-Minor		SMB monitor fails due to internal configuration issue
560471-1	4-Minor		Changing the monitor configuration of a pool can cause the virtual server to be briefly logged as down
544033-5	4-Minor	K30404012	ICMP fragmentation request is ignored by BIG-IP
222034-4	4-Minor		HTTP::respond in LB_FAILED with large header/body might result in truncated response

Performance Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
510631-1	3-Major		B4450 L4 No ePVA or L7 throughput lower than expected

Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
603598-3	2-Critical		big3d memory under extreme load conditions
587656-2	2-Critical		GTM auto discovery problem with EHF for ID574052
587617-1	2-Critical		While adding GTM server, failure to configure new IP on existing server leads to gtmd core
615338-2	3-Major		The value returned by "matchregion" in an iRule is inconsistent in some cases.
613576-1	3-Major		QOS load balancing links display as gray
613045-7	3-Major		Interaction between GTM and 10.x LTM results in some virtual servers marked down
607658-1	3-Major		GUI becomes unresponsive when managing GSLB Pool
589256-1	3-Major	K71283501	DNSSEC NSEC3 records with different type bitmap for same name.
588289-1	3-Major		GTM is Re-ordering pools when adding pool including order designation
584623-2	3-Major		Response to -list iRules command gets truncated when dealing with MX type wide IP
574052-4	3-Major		GTM autoconf can cause high CPU usage for gtmd
370131-4	3-Major		Loading UCS with low GTM Autoconf Delay drops pool Members from config

Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
609499-1	2-Critical		Compiled signature collections use more memory than prior versions
603945-2	2-Critical		BD config update should be considered as config addition in case of update failure
588087-1	2-Critical		Attack prevention isn't escalating under some conditions in session opening mitigation
587629-2	2-Critical		IP exceptions may have issues with route domain
575133-1	2-Critical		asm_config_server_rpc_handler_async.pl SIGSEGV and core
622386-1	3-Major		Internet Explorer getting blocked when Web Scraping and Proactive Bot Defense are both enabled
616169	3-Major		ASM Policy Export returns HTML error file
613396-1	3-Major		Invalid XML Policy Exported for Policies with Metachar Overrides on Websocket URLs
611385-1	3-Major		"Learn Explicit Entities" may continue to work as if it is 'Add All Entities'
609496-2	3-Major		Improved diagnostics in BD config update (bd_agent) added
608509-1	3-Major		Policy learning is slow under high load
604923-5	3-Major		REST id for Signatures change after update
604612-1	3-Major	K20323120	Modified ASM cookie violation happens after upgrade to 12.1.x★
602221-2	3-Major		Wrong parsing of redirect Domain
584642-1	3-Major		Apply Policy Failure
584103-2	3-Major		FPS periodic updates (cron) write errors to log
582683-2	3-Major		xpath parser doesn't reset a namespace hash value between each and every scan
582133-1	3-Major		Policy builder doesn't enable staging after policy change on "*" entities (file types, urls, etc.)
581315-1	3-Major		Selenium detection not blocked
579917-1	3-Major		User-defined signature set cannot be created/updated with Signature Type = "All"
579495-1	3-Major		Error when loading Upgrade UCS★
521204-2	3-Major		Include default values in XML Policy Export

Application Visibility and Reporting Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
602654-2	2-Critical		TMM crash when using AVR lookups
602434-1	2-Critical		Tmm crash with compressed response
601056	2-Critical		TCP-Analytics, error message not using rate-limit mechanism can halt TMM
622735	3-Major		TCP Analytics statistics does not list all virtual servers
618944-1	3-Major		AVR statistic is not save during the upgrade process
601035	3-Major		TCP-Analytics can fail to collect all the activity

Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
618506	2-Critical		TMM may core under certain conditions when APM is provisioned and access profile is attached to the virtual.
618324-1	2-Critical		Unknown/Undefined OPSWAT ID show up as 'Any' in APM Visual Policy Editor
592868-3	2-Critical		Rewrite may crash processing HTML tag with HTML entity in attribute value
591117-3	2-Critical		APM ACL construction may cause TMM to core if TMM is out of memory
569563-3	2-Critical		Sockets resource leak after loading complex policy
619250-1	3-Major		Returning to main menu from "RSS Feed" breaks ribbon
617187-1	3-Major		APM CustomDialer can't connect to APM server with invalid/untrusted SSL certificate
614891-2	3-Major		Routing table doesn't get updated when EDGE client roams among wireless networks
613613-2	3-Major		Incorrect handling of form that contains a tag with id=action
611922-1	3-Major		Policy sync fails with policy that includes custom CA Bundle.
611240-3	3-Major		Import of config with securid might fail
610224-3	3-Major		APM client may fetch expired certificate when a valid and an expired certificate co-exist
608941-1	3-Major		AAA RADIUS system authentication fails on IPv6 network
604767-1	3-Major		Importing SAML IdP's metadata on BIG-IP as SP may result in not complete configuration of IdP connector object.
601905-1	3-Major		POST requests may not be forwarded to backend server when EAM plugin is enabled on the virtual server
600119-3	3-Major		DNS name resolution for servers outside of Network Access Name Split scope can be slow in some conditions
598981-3	3-Major	K06913155	APM ACL does not get enforced all the time under certain conditions
598211-1	3-Major		Citrix Android Receiver 3.9 does not work through APM in StoreFront integration mode.
597431-2	3-Major		VPN establishment may fail when computer wakes up from sleep
596116-3	3-Major		LDAP Query does not resolve group membership, when required attribute(s) specified
595227-1	3-Major		SWG Custom Category: unable to have a URL in multiple custom categories
594288-1	3-Major		Access profile configured with SWG Transparent results in memory leak.
592414-4	3-Major		IE11 and Chrome throw "Access denied" during access to any generic window property after document.write() into its parent has been performed
591840-1	3-Major		encryption_key in access config is NULL in whitelist
591590-1	3-Major		APM policy sync results are not persisted on target devices
591268-1	3-Major		VS hostname is not resolvable when DNS Relay proxy is installed and running under certain conditions
590820-3	3-Major		Applications that use appendChild() or similar JavaScript functions to build UI might experience slow performance in Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.
588888-3	3-Major	K80124134	Empty URI rewriting is not done as required by browser.
586718-1	3-Major		Session variable substitutions are logged
586006-1	3-Major		Failed to retrieve CRLDP list from client certificate if DirName type is present
585562-3	3-Major		VMware View HTML5 client shipped with Horizon 7 does not work through BIG-IP APM in Chrome/Safari
583113-1	3-Major		NTLM Auth cannot be disabled in HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST event
582752-3	3-Major		Macrocall could be topologically not connected with the rest of policy.★
582526-3	3-Major		Unable to display and edit huge policies (more than 4000 elements)
580893-2	3-Major	K08731969	Support for Single FQDN usage with Citrix Storefront Integration mode
573643-3	3-Major		flash.utils.Proxy functionality is not negotiated
572558-1	3-Major		Internet Explorer: incorrect handling of document.write() to closed document
569309-3	3-Major		Clientside HTML parser does not recognize HTML event attributes without value
562636-2	3-Major	K05489319	Possible memory exhaustion in access end-user interface pages for transparent proxy/SWG cases.
525429-11	3-Major		DTLS renegotiation sequence number compatibility
455975-1	3-Major		Separate MIBS needed for tracking Access Sessions and Connectivity Sessions
389484-6	3-Major		OAM reporting Access Server down with JDK version 1.6.0_27 or later
386517-1	3-Major		Multidomain SSO requires a default pool be configured
238444-3	3-Major	K14219	An L4 ACL has no effect when a layered virtual server is used.
605627	4-Minor		Selinux denial seen for apmd when it is being shutdown.
584373-2	4-Minor		AD/LDAP resource group mapping table controls are not accessible sometimes
573611-1	4-Minor		Erroneous error message Access encountered error: ERR_NOT_FOUND may appear in APM logs
557411-1	4-Minor		Full Webtop resources appear overlapping in IE11 compatibility mode

Wan Optimization Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
619757-1	2-Critical		iSession causes routing entry to be prematurely freed

Service Provider Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
613297-3	2-Critical		Default generic message routing profile settings may core
612135-3	2-Critical		Virtual with GenericMessage profile without MessageRouter profile will core when receiving traffic
603397-2	2-Critical		tmm core on MRF when routing via MR::message route iRule command using a non-existant transport-config
596631-2	2-Critical		SIP MRF: Wrong listener may be deleted during media deny-listener deletions, causing crash later
609575-5	3-Major		BIG-IP drops ACKs containing no max-forwards header
609328-3	3-Major	K53447441	SIP Parser incorrectly parsers empty header
607713-3	3-Major		SIP Parser fails header with multiple sequential separators inside quoted string.
603019-3	3-Major		Inserted SIP VIA branch parameter not unique between INVITE and ACK
599521-5	3-Major		Persistence entries not added if message is routed via an iRule
598854-3	3-Major		sipdb tool incorrectly displays persistence records without a pool name
598700-6	3-Major		MRF SIP Bidirectional Persistence does not work with multiple virtual servers
597835-3	3-Major	K12228503	Branch parameter in inserted VIA header not consistent as per spec
583010-4	3-Major		Sending a SIP invite with 'tel' URI fails with a reset
578564-4	3-Major		ICAP: Client RST when HTTP::respond in HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE after ICAP REQMOD returned HTTP response
573075-4	3-Major		ADAPT recursive loop when handling successive iRule events
566576-6	3-Major		ICAP/OneConnect reuses connection while previous response is in progress
401815-1	3-Major		BIG-IP system may reset the egress IP ToS to zero when load balancing SIP traffic
585807-2	4-Minor		'ICAP::method <method>' iRule is documented but is read-only
561500-4	4-Minor		ICAP Parsing improvement

Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
612874-1	2-Critical		iRule with FLOW_INIT stage execution can cause TMM restart
609095-1	2-Critical		mcpd memory grows when updating firewall rules
622281-1	3-Major		Network DoS logging configuration change can cause TMM crash
621808-1	3-Major		Proactive Bot Defense failing in IE11 with Compatibility View enabled
614284-2	3-Major		Performance fix to not reset a data structure in the packet receive hotpath.
613459-1	3-Major		Non-common browsers blocked by Proactive Bot Defense
610857-1	3-Major		DoSL7 Proactive Bot Defense should block requests from a browser (Chrome/Firefox) when it is running selenium webdriver.
610830-1	3-Major		FingerPrint javascript runs slow and causes bad user browsing experience when accessing a webapp's first page.
608566-1	3-Major		The reference count of NW dos log profile in tmm log is incorrect
606875-1	3-Major		DoS Application - Block requests from suspicious browsers feature causes javascript latency for webapp first page
605427-1	3-Major		TMM may crash when adding and removing virtual servers with security log profiles
601924-1	3-Major		Selenium detection by ports scanning doesn't work even if the ports are opened
596502-1	3-Major		Unable to force Bot Defense action to Allow in iRule
594869-4	3-Major		AFM can log DoS attack against the internal mpi interface and not the actual interface
594075-2	3-Major		Sometimes when modifying the firewall rules, the blob does not compile and pccd restarts periodically
586070	3-Major		'Enabed' typo in GUI under DoS Profiles --> Application Security --> General Settings
585823-1	3-Major		FW NAT translation fails if the matched FW NAT rule uses source address list and the source translation object in the rule is configured for dynamic-pat (with deterministic mode)
501892-1	3-Major		Selenium is not detected by headless mechanism when using client version without server

Policy Enforcement Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
609005-2	1-Blocking		Crash: tmm crashing when 2nd client (srcPort=68) sends a DHCP renew with giaddr (Relay Agent IP) in the packet after 1st client (srcPort=67).
611467-3	2-Critical		TMM coredump at dhcpv4_server_set_flow_key().
608009-1	2-Critical		Crash: Tmm crashing when active system connections are deleted from cli
603825-2	2-Critical		Crash when a Gy update message is received by a debug TMM
593070-2	2-Critical		TMM may crash with multiple IP addresses per session
472860-5	2-Critical		RADIUS session statistics for the subscribers created with an iRule running on the RADIUS virtual server are not incremented.
623491-2	3-Major		After receiving the first Gx response from the PCRF, the BWC action against a rule is lost.
622220-2	3-Major		Disruption during manipulation of PEM data with suspected flow irregularity
618657-4	3-Major		Bogus ICMP unreachable messages in PEM with ipother profile in use
617014-3	3-Major		tmm core using PEM
608742-2	3-Major	K48561135	DHCP: DHCP renew ACK messages from server are getting dropped by BIG-IP in Forward mode.
608591-1	3-Major		Subscriber ID type should be set to NAI over Diameter for DHCP discovered subscribers
592070-5	3-Major		DHCP server connFlow when created based on the DHCP client connFlow does not have the traffic group ID copied
588456-3	3-Major	K60250444	PEM deletes existing PEM Subscriber Session after lease time expires (DHCP renewal not processed).
577863-5	3-Major	K56504204	DHCP relay not forwarding server DHCPOFFER and DHCPACK message after some time

Carrier-Grade NAT Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
606066-2	2-Critical		LSN_DELETE messages may be lost after HA failover
605525-1	2-Critical		Deterministic NAT combined with NAT64 may cause a TMM core
587106-1	2-Critical		Inbound connections are reset prematurely when zombie timeout is configured.
602171-1	3-Major		TMM may core when remote LSN operations time out

Fraud Protection Services Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
617648	2-Critical		Surfing with IE8 sometimes results with script error
603234-3	2-Critical		Performance Improvements
597471	2-Critical		Some Alerts are sent with outdated username value
617688	3-Major		Encryption is not activated unless "real-time encryption" is selected
613671-2	3-Major		Error in the Console, when configured nonexistent parameter with Encryption and Obfuscation
610897-2	3-Major		FPS generated request failure throw "unspecified error" error in old IE.
609098-1	3-Major		Improve details of ajax failure
604885-1	3-Major		Redirect/Route action doesn't work if there is an alert logging iRule
601083-1	3-Major		FPS Globally Forbidden Words lists freeze in IE 11
588058-3	3-Major		False positive "failed to unseal" Source Integrity alerts from old versions of Internet Explorer
609114-1	4-Minor		Add the ability to control dropping of alerts by before-load-function
605125-2	4-Minor		Sometimes, passwords fields are readonly
592274-3	4-Minor		RAT-Detection alerts sent with incorrect duration details

Anomaly Detection Services Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
588405-1	3-Major		BADOS - BIG-IP Self-protection during (D)DOS attack
608826-1	4-Minor		Greylist (bad actors list) is not cleaned when attack ends

Traffic Classification Engine Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
624370-1	2-Critical		tmm crash during classification hitless upgrade if virtual server configuration is modified

Device Management Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
621401	3-Major		When HA is configured on BIG-IPs managed by BIG-IQ, the AVR reporting from BIG-IQ may fail under the load

iApp Technology Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
615824-1	3-Major		REST API calls to invalid REST endpoint log level change

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.1 Hotfix 2 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
613127-3	CVE-2016-5696	K46514822	Linux TCP Stack vulnerability CVE-2016-5696

Functional Change Fixes

None

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
612564	1-Blocking		mysql does not start
618382-4	2-Critical		qkview may cause tmm to restart or may take 30 or more minutes to run
614766-1	3-Major		lsusb uses unknown ioctl and spams kernel logs
612952-1	3-Major		PSU FW revision not displayed correctly
611352	3-Major	K68092141	Benign message "replay num rollover error condition correctable errors" counter on iSeries platforms
610307	3-Major		Spurious error message from mcpd at shutdown: Subscription not found in mcpd for subscriber Id BIGD_Subscriber
609325	3-Major		Unsupported DDM F5 SFP modules do not write log message saying DDM is not supported
606807-1	3-Major		i5x00, i7x00, i10x00 series appliances may use sensor number instead of name "LCD health" reporting communication error
604459-1	3-Major		On i5x00, i7x00 and i10x00 platforms, bcm56xxd may restart on power-up
597309-2	3-Major		Increase the Maximum Members Per Trunk limit to 32 or 64 for high end platforms
561444-1	3-Major		LCD might display incorrect output.
521270-1	3-Major		Hypervisor might replace vCMP guest SYN-Cookie secrets
434573-6	3-Major	K25051022	Tmsh 'show sys hardware' displays Platform ID instead of platform name
609677-1	4-Minor		Dossier warning 14
607857-1	4-Minor		Some information displayed in "list net interface" will be stale for interfaces that change bundle state
607200-1	4-Minor		Switch interfaces may seem up after bcm56xxd goes down
602061	4-Minor		i5x00, i7x00, i10x00 series appliances have inconsistent firmware update messages
601309	4-Minor		Locator LED no longer persists across reboots
592716-1	4-Minor		BMC timezone value was not being synchronized by BIG-IP

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
597708-4	3-Major		Stats are unavailable and vCMP state and status are incorrect

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.1 Hotfix 1 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
598294-1	CVE-2016-7472	K17119920	BIG-IP ASM Proactive Bot Defense vulnerability CVE-2016-7472
601938-2	CVE-2016-7474	K52180214	MCPD stores certain data incorrectly

Functional Change Fixes

None

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
542097-4	2-Critical		Update to RHEL6 kernel
601927-1	4-Minor	K52180214	Security hardening of control plane

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
602653-1	2-Critical		TMM may crash after updating bot-signatures
599769	2-Critical		TMM may crash when managing APM clients.
605682-2	3-Major		With forward proxy enabled, sometimes the client connection will not complete.
599054-2	3-Major		LTM policies may incorrectly use those of another virtual server

Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
585120-1	2-Critical		Memory leak in bd under rare scenario

Application Visibility and Reporting Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
596674-2	2-Critical		High memory usage when using CS features with gzip HTML responses.
575170-2	2-Critical		Analytics reports may not identify virtual servers correctly
590074-1	3-Major		Wrong value for TCP connections closed measure

Fraud Protection Services Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
603997	2-Critical		Plugin should not inject nonce to CSP header with unsafe-inline
594910-1	3-Major		FPS flags no cookie when length check fails
590608-1	3-Major		Alert is not redirected to alert server when unseal fails
590578-4	3-Major		False positive "URL error" alerts on URLs with GET parameters
593355	4-Minor		FPS may erroneously flag missing cookie
589318-1	4-Minor		Clicking 'Customize All' checkbox does not work.

iApp Technology Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
603605-1	2-Critical		Cannot install DoS Hybrid Defender on standby device in HA pair if it's already installed on active
608373-2	3-Major		Some iApp LX packages will not be saved during upgrade or UCS save/restore

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.1 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
596488-1	CVE-2016-5118	K82747025	GraphicsMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-5118.
579955-6	CVE-2016-7475	K01587042	BIG-IP SPDY and HTTP/2 profile vulnerability CVE-2016-7475
587077-1	CVE-2015-5370 CVE-2016-2110 CVE-2016-2111 CVE-2016-2112 CVE-2016-2115 CVE-2016-2118	K37603172	Samba vulnerabilities CVE-2015-5370 and CVE-2016-2118
579220-1	CVE-2016-1950	K91100352	Mozilla NSS vulnerability CVE-2016-1950
570697-1	CVE-2015-8138	K71245322	NTP vulnerability CVE-2015-8138
580340-1	CVE-2016-2842	K52349521	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2842
580313-1	CVE-2016-0799	K22334603	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-0799
579829-7	CVE-2016-0702	K79215841	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-0702
579085-6	CVE-2016-0797	K40524634	OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-0797
578570-1	CVE-2016-0705	K93122894	OpenSSL Vulnerability CVE-2016-0705
569355-1	CVE-2015-4871 CVE-2015-7575 CVE-2016-0402 CVE-2016-0448 CVE-2016-0466 CVE-2016-0483 CVE-2016-0494	K50118123	Java vulnerabilities CVE-2015-4871 CVE-2015-7575 CVE-2016-0402 CVE-2016-0448 CVE-2016-0466 CVE-2016-0483 CVE-2016-0494
565895-1	CVE-2015-8389 CVE-2015-8388 CVE-2015-5073 CVE-2015-8395 CVE-2015-8393 CVE-2015-8390 CVE-2015-8387 CVE-2015-8391 CVE-2015-8383 CVE-2015-8392 CVE-2015-8386 CVE-2015-3217 CVE-2015-8381 CVE-2015-8380 CVE-2015-8384 CVE-2015-8394 CVE-2015-3210	K17235	Multiple PCRE Vulnerabilities
570667-2	CVE-2016-0701 CVE-2015-3197	K64009378	OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Functional Change Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
600811-2	3-Major		CATEGORY::lookup command change in behaviour★

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
606509-4	2-Critical		Incorrect process priority in vCMP guest results in low priority of the guest control-plane, which might cause high availability failover★
595605	2-Critical		Upgrades from 11.6.1 or recent hotfix rollups to 12.0.0 may fail★
591119	2-Critical		OOM with session messaging may result in TMM crash
601076	3-Major		Fix watchdog event for accelerated compression request overflow
597303	3-Major		"tmsh create net trunk" may fail
595693	3-Major		Incorrect PVA indication on B4450 blade
591261	3-Major		BIG-IP VPR-B4450N shows "unknown" SNMP Object ID
590904-1	3-Major		New HA Pair created using serial cable failover only will remain Active/Active
589661	3-Major		PS2 power supply status incorrect after removal
588327	3-Major		Observe "err bcm56xxd' liked log from /var/log/ltm
587735	3-Major		False alarm on LCD indicating bad fan
587668	3-Major		LCD Checkmark button does not always bring up clearing prompt on VIPRION blades.
585332	3-Major		Virtual Edition network settings aren't pinned correctly on startup★
584670	3-Major		Output of tmsh show sys crypto master-key
584661	3-Major		Last good master key
584655	3-Major		platform-migrate won't import password protected master-keys from a 10.2.4 UCS file
583177	3-Major		LCD text truncated by heartbeat icon on VIPRION
581945-2	3-Major		Device-group 'datasync-global-dg' becomes out-of-sync every hour
581811	3-Major		The blade alarm LED may not reflect the warning that non F5 optics is used.
579529	3-Major		Stats file descriptors kept open in spawned child processes
578064	3-Major		tmsh show sys hardwares show "unavailable" for hard disk manufacturer on B4400/B4450 blade
578036-1	3-Major		incorrect crontab can cause large number of email alerts
573584	3-Major		CPLD update success logs at the same error level as an update failure
563592	3-Major		Content diagnostics and LCD
559655	3-Major		Post RMA, system does not display correct platform name regardless of license
555039-4	3-Major	K24458124	VIPRION B2100: Increase egress traffic burst tolerance for dual CoS queue configuration
539360	3-Major		Firmware update that includes might take over 15 minutes. Do not turn off device.
526708	3-Major		system_check shows fan=good on removed PSU of 4000 platform
433357	3-Major		Management NIC speed reported as 'none'
400778	3-Major		Message: err chmand[5011]: 012a0003:3: Physical disk CF1/HD1 not found for logical disk delete
400550	3-Major		LCD listener error during shutdown
587780	4-Minor		warning: HSBe2 XLMAC initial recovery failed after 11 retries.
478986	4-Minor		Powered down DC PSU is treated as not-present
418009	5-Cosmetic		Hardware data display inaccuracies

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
603700	2-Critical		tmm core on multiple SSL::disable calls
598052-1	2-Critical		SSL Forward Proxy "Cache Certificate by Addr-Port", cache lookup fails
591139	2-Critical		TMM QAT segfault after zlib/QAT compression conflation.
585654	2-Critical		Enhanced implementation of AES in Common Criteria mode
579953	2-Critical		Updated the list of Common Criteria ciphersuites
584926-1	3-Major		Accelerated compression segfault when devices are all in error state.
566342	3-Major		Cannot set 10T-FD or 10T-HD on management port

Performance Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
599803	1-Blocking		TMM accelerated compression incorrectly destroying in-flight contexts.
588879-2	2-Critical		apmd crash under rare conditions with LDAP

Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
581824-2	3-Major		"Instance not found" error when viewing the properties of GSLB monitors gateway_icmp and bigip_link.

Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
588049-1	2-Critical		Improve detection of browser capabilities
585352-2	2-Critical		bruteForce record selfLink gets corrupted by change to brute force settings in GUI
585054-1	2-Critical		BIG-IP imports delay violations incorrectly, causing wrong policy enforcement
583686-2	3-Major		High ASCII meta-characters can be disallowed on UTF-8 policy via XML import
581991-1	3-Major		Logging filter for remote loggers doesn't work correctly with more than one logging profile
521370-1	3-Major		Auto-Detect Language policy has disallowed high ASCII meta-characters even after encoding is set to UTF-8
518201-4	3-Major		ASM policy creation fails with after upgrading

Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
587419-1	3-Major		TMM may restart when SAML SLO is performed after APM session is closed
585442-2	3-Major		Provisioning APM to "none" creates a core file

Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
596809-1	3-Major		It is possible to create ssh rules with blank space for auth-info
593925-1	3-Major		ssh profile should not contain rules that begin and end with spaces (cannot be deleted)
593696-1	3-Major		Sync fails when deleting an ssh profile

Carrier-Grade NAT Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
584921-1	2-Critical		Inbound connections fail to keep port block alive

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.0 Hotfix 2 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
600662-9	CVE-2016-5745	K64743453	NAT64 vulnerability CVE-2016-5745
599168-7	CVE-2016-5700	K35520031	BIG-IP virtual server with HTTP Explicit Proxy and/or SOCKS vulnerability CVE-2016-5700
598983-7	CVE-2016-5700	K35520031	BIG-IP virtual server with HTTP Explicit Proxy and/or SOCKS vulnerability CVE-2016-5700
580596-1	CVE-2013-0169 CVE-2016-6907	K14190 K39508724	TLS/DTLS 'Lucky 13' vulnerability CVE-2013-0169 / TMM SSL/TLS virtual server vulnerability CVE-2016-6907

Functional Change Fixes

None

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
604211-1	2-Critical	K72931250	License not operational on Azure after upgrading from 12.0.0 HF1-EHF14 to 12.0.0-HF4 or 12.1.0-HF1 or 12.1.1.★
600859-2	2-Critical		Module not licensed after upgrade from 11.6.0 to 12.1.0 HF1 EHF.★
599033-5	2-Critical		Traffic directed to incorrect instance after network partition is resolved
595394-3	2-Critical		Upgrading 11.5.x/11.6.x hourly billing instances in AWS with multiple NICs to 12.1.x can result in instance becoming inaccessible.★
606110-2	3-Major		BIG-IP VE dataplane interfaces change to using UNIC modules instead of sockets.
596814-4	3-Major		HA Failover fails in certain valid AWS configurations
596603-2	3-Major		AWS: BIG-IP VE doesn't work with c4.8xlarge instance type.

Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
600357-2	3-Major		bd crash when asm policy is removed from virtual during specific configuration change

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.0 Hotfix 1 that are included in this release

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number	CVE	Solution Article(s)	Description
569467-5	CVE-2016-2084	K11772107	BIG-IP and BIG-IQ cloud image vulnerability CVE-2016-2084.
591806-8	CVE-2016-3714	K03151140	ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3714
591918-2	CVE-2016-3718	K61974123	ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3718
591908-2	CVE-2016-3717	K29154575	ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3717
591894-2	CVE-2016-3715	K10550253	ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3715
591881-1	CVE-2016-3716	K25102203	ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3716

Functional Change Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
583631-2	1-Blocking		ServerSSL ClientHello does not encode lowest supported TLS version, which might result in alerts and closed connections on older Servers.
590993	3-Major		Unable to load configs from /usr/libexec/aws/.
576478	3-Major		Enable support for the Purpose-Built DDoS Hybrid Defender Platform
544477	3-Major		New Hourly Billable VE instances in AWS and Azure register with F5 Licensing Server for Support.

TMOS Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
591039	2-Critical		DHCP lease is saved on the Custom AMI used for auto-scaling VE
590779	2-Critical		Rest API - log profile in json return does not include the partition but needs to
588140	2-Critical		Pool licensing fails in some KVM/OpenStack environments
587791-1	2-Critical		Set execute permission on /var/lib/waagent
565137	2-Critical	K12372003	Pool licensing fails in some KVM/OpenStack environments.
554713-2	2-Critical		Deployment failed: Failed submitting iControl REST transaction
592363	3-Major		Remove debug output during first boot of VE
592354	3-Major		Raw sockets are not enabled on Cloud platforms

Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
592699-3	2-Critical		IPv6 data pulled from the BIG-IP system via HTTPS, SCP, SSH, DNS or SMTP performance
594302-1	3-Major		Connection hangs when processing large compressed responses from server
592854-1	3-Major		Protocol version set incorrectly on serverssl renegotiation
592682-1	3-Major		TCP: connections may stall or be dropped
531979-6	3-Major		SSL version in the record layer of ClientHello is not set to be the lowest supported version.

Application Visibility and Reporting Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
582629-1	2-Critical		User Sessions lookups are not cleared, session stats show marked as invalid

Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
590601-2	3-Major		BIG-IP as SAML SP does not redirect users to original request URI after authentication is completed
590428-1	3-Major		The "ACCESS::session create" iRule command does not work
590345-1	3-Major		ACCESS policy running iRule event agent intermittently hangs
585905-1	3-Major		Citrix Storefront integration mode with pass-through authentication fails
581834-5	3-Major		Firefox signed plugin for VPN, Endpoint Check, etc

Anomaly Detection Services Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
588399-1	3-Major		BIG-IP CPU utilization can be high even when all bad actors are detected and mitigated
582374-1	3-Major		Multiple 'Loading state for virtual server' messages in admd.log
569121-1	3-Major		Advanced Detection rate limiting can be incorrect in multi-blade clusters when rate limit is low
547053-1	4-Minor		Bad actor quarantining

Traffic Classification Engine Fixes

ID Number	Severity	Solution Article(s)	Description
590795-1	2-Critical		tmm crash when loading default signatures or updating classification signature★

Cumulative fix details for BIG-IP v12.1.3.6 that are included in this release

720880 : Attempts to license/re-license the BIG-IP system fail.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Attempts to activate or reactivate the license on the BIG-IP system results in failure messages.

Conditions:
No specific configurations are associated with this issue, but license activation/reactivation requests that include add-ons are more likely to fail.

This occurs under random conditions.

Impact:
The system is either unusable or very difficult to activate.

Workaround:
Because the conditions under which this issue occurs are random, additional licensing attempts might succeed.

Fix:
The source of the underlying problem has been corrected. No additional logs, error message, or user-interaction is involved.

720756 : SNMP platform name is unknown on i11400-DS/i11600-DS/i11800-DS

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The SNMP query for platform marketing name is 'unknown' for i11400-DS/i11600-DS/i11800-DS.

Conditions:
-- On licensed system, check OID marketing name.
-- Using i11400-DS/i11600-DS/i11800-DS platforms.

Impact:
Cannot tell the actual platform name in the SNMP query.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
SNMP platform name is now reported correctly on BIG-IP i11400-DS/i11600-DS/i11800-DS platforms.

720695-2 : Export then import of Profile/Policy with advanced customization is failing

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
An exported policy containing advanced customization fails to import.

Conditions:
-- Export policy containing advanced customization.
-- Import the same policy.

Impact:
Import fails.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Import of exported policy containing advanced customization now succeeds.

720391-1 : BIG-IP i7800 Dual SSD reports wrong marketing name under 'show sys hardware'

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
BIG-IP i7800 Dual SSD reports wrong marketing name under 'show sys hardware' and 'unknown' when OID sysObjectID is queried.

Conditions:
1. Execute 'tmsh show sys hardware'.
2. Query for OID sysObjectID using snmpwalk.

Impact:
System is reported as i7008-D, when it should be i7800-D. Platform with dual SSD not correctly identified using tmsh command or snmpwalk.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Added new SNMP OID for BIG-IP i7800 Dual SSD, reported as BIG-IP i7800-D, which is the correct designation.

720104 : BIG-IP i2800/i2600 650W AC PSU has marketing name missing under 'show sys hardware'

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
BIG-IP i2800/i2600 650W AC PSU is missing marketing name under 'show sys hardware' and displays 'unknown' when OID sysObjectID is queried.

Conditions:
-- Execute 'tmsh show sys hardware'.
-- Query for OID sysObjectID using snmpwalk.
-- Using BIG-IP i2800/i2600 platforms.

Impact:
System reports an empty marketing name when queried. Platform with 650W AC PSU not identified using tmsh command or snmpwalk.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Added new SNMP OID for BIG-IP i2800/i2600 650W AC PSU.

720030-3 : Enable EDNS flag for internal Kerberos DNS SRV queries

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Kerberos DNS SRV requests are generated without enabling EDNS0. Without this, internal DNS server (dnscached) truncates the UDP response if it is greater than 512 bytes, causing the DNS request to be re-sent on TCP connections. This results in a lot of TIME_WAIT connections on the socket using dnscached.

Conditions:
APM end users using Kerberos SSO to access backend resources.

Impact:
Ability to create new DNS requests is affected, if there are numerous sockets in TIME_WAIT. This can result in scalability issues.

Workaround:
For BIG-IP software v12.x and later,

Edit the /etc/resolv.conf file to add an EDNS0 option.

There is no workaround if you are running a version earlier than 12.x.

Fix:
Kerberos DNS SRV requests now support EDNS0, so that UDP responses greater than 512 bytes can be received correctly, eliminating the need to re-send the request on TCP while communicating to the internal DNS server (dnscached).

718208-1 : Unable to install Network Access plugin on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 w/ Firefox v52 ESR using SUDO

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
SVPN client installation process loops on the prompt to enter SU or SUDO credentials.

Conditions:
Use Firefox v52 ESR to install SVPN client.

Impact:
User can't install SVPN client using Firefox v52 ESR browser

Workaround:
Delete the NPAPI plugin from the browser
Install SVPN client manually.
Use Firefox v52 ESR to connect to APM

Fix:
Now user can install SVPN client using SUDO.

718071-3 : HTTP2 with ASM policy not passing traffic

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
HTTP2 traffic does not pass traffic if an ASM policy is applied.

Conditions:
-- HTTP2 virtual server.
-- ASM policy applied.

Impact:
Traffic does not pass.

Workaround:
No workaround.

Fix:
HTTP2 and ASM now work correctly together.

716992-3 : The ASM bd process may crash

Solution Article: K75432956

716747-4 : TMM core with SWG Transparent

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
TMM core when running an SWG-Transparent. There will be a log message in /var/log/apm near the time of crash with this:

err tmm[20598]: 01490514:3: (null):Common:00000000: Access encountered error: ERR_ARG. File: ../modules/hudfilter/access/access.c, Function: access_initiate_swgt_policy_done, Line: 17000.

Conditions:
Forward proxy with an access profile of type SWG-Transparent.

Happens every time with an On-Demand Cert Auth agent in the access policy. Is sometimes seen in other situations, but much less frequently.

Impact:
TMM core. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
TMM no longer cores with SWG Transparent.

715923-3 : When processing TLS traffic TMM may reset connections

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions TMM may reset TLS connections with a BAD_RECORD_MAC alert.

Conditions:
TLS profile active.

Impact:
BIG-IP sends a BAD_RECORD_MAC alert and terminates the SSL connection.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM now processes TLS traffic as expected.

715250-2 : TMM crash when RPC resumes TCL event ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
TMM generates a core and restarts when RPC resumes iRule event ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED.

Conditions:
Plugin RPC call has iRule event ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED configured.

Impact:
System instability, failover, traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

715207-2 : coapi errors while modifying per-request policy in VPE

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
System reports errors about coapi in /var/log/ltm when modifying a per-request policy in the Visual Policy Editor (VPE).

err coapi: PHP: requested conversion of uninitialized member.

Conditions:
-- The per-request policy being modified is attached to the virtual server.
-- Using VPE.

Impact:
The impact can vary by version.
-- In some versions it represents a stray error log.
-- In other versions the 'Accepted Languages' in the Logon Page agent does not have the full list.
-- In other versions, there are server 500 errors when modifying agents.

Workaround:
To work around this issue, perform the following procedure: 1. Remove the per-request policy from the virtual server.
2. Modify the policy.
3. Add the policy back to the virtual server.

Fix:
The underlying coapi errors have been resolved, which should also resolve the associated impacts.

715090 : PEM policy actions obtained via a PCRF are not applied for traffic generated subscribers

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) policy actions will have no effect on the subscribers' traffic.

Conditions:
PEM creates a traffic generated subscriber that has PCRF-provided policies associated with it.

Impact:
Potential loss of service depending on the policy actions that do not take effect.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
This issue has been fixed.

714879-1 : APM CRLDP Auth passes all certs

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
In some situations, a failure to download a new CRL may result in the CRLDP Auth agent treating revoked certs as valid.

Conditions:
Non-zero value for the update-interval in the CRLDP AAA object, and a download failure occurs while trying to update the CRL.

Impact:
Revoked users may regain access.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Failure to download a CRL will now revert to the cached CRL, if that CRL is still valid under its nextUpdate time. If there is no valid cached CRL, APM reverts to the action specified in the AAA CRLDP setting of 'Null CRL Allowed'.

714848 : OPT-0031 and OPT-0036 log DDM warning every minute when interface disabled and DDM enabled

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
DDM transmit power too low warning continually appear in /var/log/ltm, and in SNMP traps. Messages appear similar to the following:
DDM interface:3/1.0 transmit power too low warning. Transmit power(mWatts) 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001

A single warning message is expected, not repeating messages.

Conditions:
This occurs when all of the following conditions are met:
-- The interface is disabled.
-- DDM is enabled.
-- OPT-0031 or OPT-0036.

Impact:
There are multiple messages in /var/log/ltm, and SNMP DDM traps. There is no impact on traffic.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than to enable the interface or disable DDM.

Fix:
DDM errors no longer continually appear on disabled interfaces containing OPT-0031 or OPT-0036.

714542-1 : 'Always Connected Mode' text is missing in EdgeClient tray

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
When right-clicking the EdgeClient tray icon, the pop-up menu shows a grey box instead of the 'Always Connected Mode' text.

Conditions:
EdgeClient installed in 'Always Connected Mode' with 'Allow' traffic when VPN is disconnected.

Impact:
No functional impact. Previously, the message appeared only for blocked mode.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Now, when a user right-clicks the Edge Client tray icon in Always Connected mode, the <uicontrol>Always Connected Mode</uicontrol> text is displayed on the tray icon pop-up menu.

713951-3 : tmm core files produced by nitrox_diag may be missing data

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When the nitrox_diag utility generates a tmm core file, that file might include data for only one tmm thread instead of all tmm threads.

Conditions:
-- Running the nitrox_diag utility.
-- Using devices with the Cavium Nitrox crypto card.
-- The nitrox_diag utility generates a tmm core file.

Impact:
The resulting core file might include data for only one tmm thread instead of all tmm threads, making it more difficult for F5 to diagnose reported problems with the Cavium Nitrox crypto card. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
When the nitrox_diag utility generates a tmm core file, that file now includes data for all tmm threads instead of only one.

713934-4 : Using iRule 'DNS::question name' to shorten the name in DNS_REQUEST may result malformed TC response

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Received malformed Truncated DNS response.

Conditions:
-- Using iRule 'DNS::question name' to shorten the name.
-- DNS response is longer than 4096 UDP limit.

Impact:
DNS request might not be resolved correctly.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
In this release, when DNS::query name changes the query name, the software ensures that the request is updated with proper lengths.

713533-3 : list self-ip with queries does not work

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
"list net self" command always returns all Self IPs, regardless of the regex patterns.

Conditions:
list net self always returns all Self IPs

Impact:
You are unable to filter the Self IP list using a regex pattern.

Fix:
You can now use pattern matching to list Self IPs

713491-1 : IKEv1 logging shows spi of deleted SA with opposite endianess

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Sometimes the IKEv1 racoon daemon logs a 32-bit child-SA spi with octets in backwards order (reversing the endianness).

Conditions:
When an SA is deleted.

Impact:
Logging typically shows a network byte order spi in the wrong order. Cosmetic interference with logging interpretation.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
The spi values are shown in the correct endianness now.

713066-3 : Connection failure during DNS lookup to disabled nameserver can crash TMM

Solution Article: K10620131

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
TMM restart as a result of a DNS lookup to disabled nameserver.

Conditions:
DNS lookup that tries to connect to a nameserver that is not reachable for some reason.

This could be an explicit 'RESOLV::lookup' command in iRule, or it could be DNS lookups internally triggered by APM or HTTP.

Impact:
TMM restarts. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Verify connectivity to nameserver.

As an alternative, refrain from using RESOLV::lookup in iRules.

Fix:
This issue is now fixed.

712924 : In VPE SecurID servers list are not being displayed in SecurID authentication dialogue

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
In VPE SecurID servers list are not being displayed in SecurID authentication dialogue. List is displaying only None.

Conditions:
Always when adding SecureID authentication action.

Impact:
Inability to (re)configure SecureId via VPE.

Workaround:
Manually modify RSA AAA server in SecurID Auth Agent via tmsh:

tmsh modify apm policy agent aaa-securid <aaa agent> server <securid server name>

712857-1 : SWG-Explicit rejects large POST bodies during policy evaluation

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
When an access profile of type SWG-Explicit is being used, there is a 128 KB limit on POST bodies while the policy is being evaluated.

The system posts an error message similar to the following in /var/log/apm:
err tmm[13751]: 01490514:3: (null):Common:00000000: Access encountered error: ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED. File: ../modules/hudfilter/access/access.c, Function: hud_access_process_ingress, Line: 3048

Conditions:
This applies only during policy evaluation. After the policy has been set to 'Allow', there is no limit to the POST body.

Impact:
Unable to start an SWG-Explicit policy with a large POST body.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
This release introduces a db variable 'tmm.access.maxrequestbodysize'. You can now avoid this issue by setting a value larger than the 128 KB POST body size. The maximum supported value is 25000000 (25 MB).

712475-1 : DNS zones without servers will prevent DNS Express reading zone data

Solution Article: K56479945

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
DNS Express does not return dig requests.

Conditions:
DNS Express is configured a zone without a server.

Impact:
DNS Express does not return dig requests.

Workaround:
You can use either of the following workarounds:
-- Remove the zone without the server.
-- Configure a server for the zone.

Fix:
DNS zones without servers no longer prevent DNS Express reading zone data.

712464-1 : Exclude the trusted anchor certificate in hash algorithm selection when Forward Proxy forges a certificate

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SSL Forward Proxy signs a forged certificate with a hash algorithm. This selected hash algorithm is the weakest algorithm from the certificates in the server certificate chain except the self-signed certificate.

Some of the intermediate CA certificates in the cert chain use the SHA1 hash algorithm. This kind of intermediate CAs is usually in the BIG-IP system's ca-bundle. BIG-IP receives the cert chain including the intermediate CA and forges the cert with SHA1, which is rejected by some web clients.

Conditions:
-- The BIG-IP system is configured to use SSL Forward Proxy or SSL Intercept.
-- Some intermediate CA in the web server's cert chain is using a weak algorithm like SHA1 to sign certificates.
-- The web client rejects the weak-algorithm-signed certificate.

Impact:
Clients cannot access the web server due to SSL handshake failure.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
This fix excludes trusted CA certificates in hash algorithm selection. This may prevent forged certificate from using SHA1 hash algorithm.

712437-1 : Records containing hyphens (-) will prevent child zone from loading correctly

Solution Article: K20355559

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The dig command returns no record with SOA from the parent zone even though dnsxdump shows that the record exists.

Conditions:
-- Parent zone has a record containing - (a hyphen) and the preceding characters match the child zone. For example,
myzone.com -- parent
foo.myzone.com -- child

-- In myzone.com, you have a record of the following form:
foo-record.myzone.com

Impact:
DNS can not resolve records correctly.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
DNS now handles the case in which the parent zone has a record containing - (a hyphen) and the preceding characters match the child zone.

712362-1 : ASM stalls WebSocket frames after legitimate websockets handshake with 101 status code, but without 'Switching Protocols' reason phrase

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
When the WebSocket HTTP handshake response comes without 'Switching Protocols' reason phrase at the first line, the ASM does not follow up WebSocket frames on the WebSocket's connection.

The system posts the following messages in /ts/log/bd.log:
-- IO_PLUGIN|ERR |Mar 28 09:16:15.121|30539|websocket.c:0269|101 Switching Protocols HTTP status arrived, but the websocket hanshake failed.
-- IO_PLUGIN|ERR |Mar 28 09:16:15.121|30539|websocket.c:0270|Possible reasons are websocket profile isn't assigned on a virtual server or handshake is illegal.

Conditions:
-- ASM provisioned.
-- ASM policy and WebSocket profile attached to a virtual server.
-- WebSocket backend server sends 101 response without the 'Switching Protocols' phrase.

Impact:
WebSocket frames stalls.

Workaround:
#1 Change the backend server:
Change WebSocket backend server to return 101 response to include the 'Switching Protocols' reason phrase:

HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols

#2 Use an irRule:
when SERVER_CONNECTED {
    TCP::collect 15
}
when SERVER_DATA {
    if { [TCP::payload 15] contains "HTTP/1.1 101 \r\n" } {
        TCP::payload replace 0 12 "HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols"
    }
}

Fix:
This release correctly handles 101 responses even without the 'Switching Protocols' reason phrase.

712315-1 : LDAP and AD Group Resource Assign are not displaying Static ACLs correctly

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
In VPE LDAP and AD Group Resource Assign are not displaying static acls when they are configured.

Conditions:
While attempting to assign Static ACls via AD or LDAP Group Resource assign (aka Group Mapping) Static ACLs are not displayed.

Impact:
Users are not able to assign Static ACLs with AD and LDAP Group Mapping via VPE.

Workaround:
Static ACLs are assignable with TMSH.

Fix:
Functionality is restored and Static ACLs are being displayed in AD and Ldap Group Resource Assign aka Group Mapping

use:
tmsh modify apm policy agent resource-assign

711570-1 : PEM iRule subscriber policy name query using subscriber ID, may not return applied policies

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
PEM::subscriber config policy get <subscriber id> does not return policy names

Conditions:
PEM iRule using subscriber ID to get policy name.

Impact:
Subscriber policy names are not returned.

Workaround:
Use PEM::subscriber config policy get <IP address> instead.

Fix:
Subscriber policy names are now returned when running PEM iRules using subscriber ID to get policy names.

711547 : Update cipher support for Common Criteria compliance

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Default cipher selection may not be compliant with Common Criteria requirements. Please see the Common Criteria guidance documentation for details about cipher strings in CC mode.

Conditions:
Common Criteria mode active

Impact:
Please see the Common Criteria guidance documentation for details about cipher strings in CC mode.

Workaround:
Please see the Common Criteria guidance documentation for details about cipher strings in CC mode.

Fix:
Improved Common Criteria compliance in default cipher strings.

711281-3 : nitrox_diag may run out of space on /shared

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Running nitrox_diag may lose collected data if there is insufficient free space for the tar file to be created.

Conditions:
-- Running nitrox_diag.
-- Insufficient free space available on /shared.

Impact:
Might lose data required to diagnose problems with Cavium Nitrox chips.

Workaround:
The only workaround is to ensure there is enough free space for the files to be created.

In general, planning enough space for two copies of a tmm core file and two copies of a qkview works. That might require approximately one gigabyte. Though more might be needed for systems with a large amount of RAM.

Fix:
nitrox_diag now clears the older data before gathering new data, instead of after. Note, however, that if there is insufficient free space on /shared to collect the raw data, the operation still cannot succeed.

711093-2 : PEM sessions may stay in marked_for_delete state with Gx reporting and Gy enabled

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
PEM sessions may stay in the marked-for-delete state after session deletion.

Conditions:
This occurs if Gx final usage reporting response comes before Gy delete response (CCA).

Impact:
PEM sessions remain in marked-for-delete state.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
PEM sessions no longer stay in the marked-for-delete state after session delete

710827-4 : TMUI dashboard daemon stability issue

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Some dashboard requests may cause a crash of TMUI dashboard daemons, affecting the TMUI dashboard.

Conditions:
Request sent to BIG-IP dashboard.

Impact:
Only the TMUI dashboard goes offline. Other TMUI functionality is not affected by this issue.

Workaround:
None available.

Fix:
Setup a correct exception handling prevented TMUI dashboard service failure.

710705-3 : Multiple Wireshark vulnerabilities

Solution Article: K34035645

710602 : iCRD commands requiring 'root' user access fixed

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Some of the iCRD calls that run commands on the base operating system that require elevated permissions would fail because iCRD was not correctly executing the commands in the right context.

Conditions:
Use an iCRD endpoint that requires elevated permissions to succeed.

Impact:
Only impacts iCRD endpoints which run commands that require root access.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
This fix resolves this issue by running the commands with the correct user context.

710424-3 : Possible SIGSEGV in GTMD when GTM persistence is enabled.

Solution Article: K00874337

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
When GTM persistence is enabled, GTMD may occasionally crash and restart.

Conditions:
GTM persistence is enabled.

Impact:
GTMD may occasionally restart.

Workaround:
Disable GTM persistence.

Fix:
GTMD will no longer crash and restart when persistence is enabled.

710327-3 : Remote logger message is truncated at NULL character.

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
When a request including binary null character has been sent to an remote logger, configured for ASM, the request will arrive to the remote destination and will be truncated exactly at binary NULL character.

Conditions:
-- ASM provisioned.
-- ASM policy attached to a virtual server.
-- ASM remote logger attached to a virtual server.
-- Request including binary NULL character is sent to the remote logger destination.

Impact:
Partial request is logged at the remote logger destination.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Binary NULL character is now escaped before being sent to the remote logger destination, so the request is no longer truncated.

710314-2 : TMM may crash while processing HTML traffic

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, TMM may crash while processing HTML traffic

Conditions:
HTML profile enabled

Impact:
TMM may crash, leading to a failover event

Fix:
TMM now processes HTML traffic as expected

710244-1 : Memory Leak of access policy execution objects

Solution Article: K27391542

710211 : Cannot edit Terminals of Macro if one or more Macrocalls point to a given Macro.

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Cannot edit Terminals of Macro if one or more Macrocalls point to a given Macro. The system posts a message similar to the following:

Unable to execute transaction because of: 01071203:3: Caption (XYZ1) of the rule in macrocall (/Common/abc_macro) must be identical to the caption (XYZ2) of terminalout.

Conditions:
-- Using Access Policy.
-- Policy includes one or more macros.
-- There is a macrocall on one of the macros.
-- You attempt to add a new terminal to that macro.

Impact:
Cannot edit macro terminals.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Can now edit Terminals of Macro if one or more Macrocalls point to a given Macro.

710148-4 : CVE-2017-1000111 & CVE-2017-1000112

Solution Article: K60250153

709972-4 : CVE-2017-12613: APR Vulnerability

Solution Article: K52319810

709688-5 : dhcp Security Advisory - CVE-2017-3144, CVE-2018-5732, CVE-2018-5733

Solution Article: K08306700

709610-1 : Subscriber session creation via PEM may fail due to a RADIUS-message-triggered race condition in PEM

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Session replacement fails as a result of a race condition between multiple RADIUS Accounting Start and Stop messages for the same subscriber.

Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
-- These SysDB variables are set as follows:
sys db tmm.pem.session.radius.retransmit.timeout {
value "0"
}
sys db tmm.pem.session.provisioning.continuous {
value "disable"
}

-- Actions occur in the following order:
1. PEM receives RADIUS START with subscriber ID1 and IP1.
2. PEM receives RADIUS STOP with subscriber ID1 and IP1.
3. PEM receives RADIUS START with subscriber ID1 and IP2.
4. PEM receives RADIUS STOP with subscriber ID1 and IP2.

-- The time interval between steps 1 and 2 is very small (less than ~1ms).

Impact:
Subscriber session creation via PEM may fail.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than to leave SysDbs variables set to the default values.

Fix:
The system now handles PEM subscriber session updates properly, so this issue no longer occurs.

709334-2 : Memory leak when SSL Forward proxy is used and ssl re-negotiates

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When looking at tmsh show sys memory you will see
ssl_compat continue to grow and fails to release memory.

Conditions:
-SSL Forward Proxy In use
-SSL Re-negotiations happening

Impact:
Eventually memory reaper will kick in.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
ssl_compat now properly releases connections on re-negotiation.

708956 : During system boots up, error message displays: 'Dataplane INOPERABLE - only 1 HSBes found on this platform'

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
During system bootup, the system occasionally posts the following error message and the system does not come up:
Dataplane INOPERABLE - only 1 HSBes found on this platform.

Conditions:
This occurs occasionally at system bootup.
-- Using the following platforms:
i4600, i4800, i10600, i10800, i2600, i2800, i7600, i7800, i5600, i5800, i15600, i15800, i12600, i12800, HERCULON i2800, HERCULON i5800, HERCULON i10800, i11600, i11800, i11800-DS, i5820-DF, i7820-DF.

Impact:
System does not come up.

Workaround:
Reboot system.

Because this condition only happens occasionally, rebooting typically corrects the issue.

Fix:
This release fixes a race condition that might have occurred while reading FPGA firmware loading status.

708653-3 : TMM may crash while processing TCP traffic

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, TMM may crash while processing TCP traffic

Conditions:
TCP profile enabled

Impact:
TMM crash leading to a failover event

Fix:
TMM processes TCP traffic as expected

708249-4 : nitrox_diag utility generates QKView files with 5 MB maximum file size limit

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When nitrox_diag generates a QKView file, the utility does not use the -s0 flag for the qkview command. That means there is a 5 MB file-size limit for the resulting QKView file nitrox_diag generates.

Conditions:
Run the nitrox_diag command.

Impact:
QKView files generated in response to running the nitrox_diag command might not contain all necessary information, for example, the result might contain truncated log files.

Workaround:
After running nitrox_diag, run the following command to generate a complete QKView file: qkview -s0

Fix:
Nitrox_diag utility now uses the -s0 command to generate QKView files, so there is no longer a 5 MB maximum file size limit, and the full QKView file is created.

708114-3 : TMM may crash when processing the handshake message relating to OCSP, after the SSL connection is closed

Solution Article: K33319853

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TMM crashes when receiving the HUDEVT_SSL_OCSP_RESUME_CLNT_HS after the SSL connection is closed.

Conditions:
-- The SSL connection has been closed.
-- SSL receives the HUDEVT_SSL_OCSP_RESUME_CLNT_HS message.

Impact:
TMM crash. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now ensures that SSL can still properly process the messages, even when the SSL connection is closed.

708054-3 : Web Acceleration: TMM may crash on very large HTML files with conditional comments

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Web Acceleration feature may not handle big HTML file with improper conditional comments inside in some cases. TMM may crash processing such files if Web Acceleration profile is attached to VIP.

Conditions:
- HTML file with conditional comments inside:


- The size of "condition" from the pattern above is comparable with RAM size of BIG-IP box, i.e. ~8-10GB.

Impact:
TMM crash interrupts all active sessions.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Now Web Acceleration feature can handle long HTML conditional comments correctly.

707951 : Stalled mirrored flows on HA next-active when OneConnect is used.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
-- 'tmctl -d blade tmm/umem_usage_stat | grep xdata' may show increased memory usage.
-- 'tmsh show sys connect' shows idle flows.

Conditions:
- OneConnect profile is configured.
- High availability (HA) mirroring is enabled.

Impact:
- Some flows are mirrored incorrectly.
- Stalled flows may occupy a lot of memory.

Workaround:
Disable OneConnect.

Fix:
Stalled mirrored flows no longer appear when OneConnect is used.

707888 : Some ASM operations delayed due to scheduled ASU update

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Some ASM operations (such as Apply Policy) are delayed while a scheduled ASU update is in progress. This issue affects only 12.1.3.x from 12.1.3.2 and later.

Conditions:
A scheduled ASM update is in progress on systems running v12.1.3.x.

Impact:
Some ASM operations, such as Apply Policy, are delayed.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Other ASM operations are no longer blocked by scheduled ASU update.

707675 : FQDN nodes or pool members flap when DNS response received

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When an LTM pool is configured with FQDN nodes or pool members, the LTM pool and associated virtual server(s) may transition from an UP to DOWN state and back over a period of a few seconds.

Such an event is accompanied by log messages similar to the following:

-- notice mcpd[#]: 01071682:5: SNMP_TRAP: Virtual /Common/vs_test has become unavailable
-- notice mcpd[#]: 010719e7:5: Virtual Address /Common/123.45.67.89 general status changed from GREEN to RED.
-- notice mcpd[#]: 010719e8:5: Virtual Address /Common/123.45.67.89 monitor status changed from UP to DOWN.
-- err mcpd[#]: 01020066:3: The requested Pool Member (/Common/Test_Pool /Common/test-dummy.com-12.34.56.78 443) already exists in partition Common.
-- notice bigd[##]: 01060144:5: Pool /Common/Test_Pool member /Common/test-dummy.com-12.34.56.78 session status enabled by monitor
-- notice bigd[##]: 01060145:5: Pool /Common/Test_Pool member /Common/test-dummy.com-12.34.56.78 monitor status up. [ /Common/mon_test_https: UP ] [ was checking for 0hr:0min:2sec ]
-- notice mcpd[#]: 01071681:5: SNMP_TRAP: Virtual /Common/vs_test has become available
-- notice mcpd[#]: 010719e7:5: Virtual Address /Common/123.45.67.89 general status changed from RED to GREEN.
-- notice mcpd[#]: 010719e8:5: Virtual Address /Common/123.45.67.89 monitor status changed from DOWN to UP.

This symptom repeats each time a DNS query is performed to resolve the FQDN node/pool-member name to its IP addresses, based on the 'interval' value configured for the FQDN node.

This symptom occurs only when the 'autopopulate' value is set to 'enabled' for the FQDN node/pool-member.

Conditions:
-- LTM pool is configured with FQDN nodes or pool members.
-- The 'autopopulate' value is set to 'enabled' for the FQDN node/pool-member.

Impact:
LTM pool and virtual server are briefly and periodically marked DOWN. Traffic may be impacted.

Workaround:
Either of the following methods can be used to work around this issue:

-- Configure static IP addresses instead of FQDN nodes/pool-members.

-- Set the 'autopopulate' value to 'disabled' for the FQDN node/pool-member, if possible (that is, if only one IP address is required/expected to be returned for the FQDN name, which means that the 'autopopulate' feature of FQDN nodes/pool-members is not required).

Fix:
FQDN node/pool-member and corresponding pool and virtual server are no longer briefly marked DOWN when the DNS server is queried to resolve the FQDN name, with the 'autopopulate' feature enabled for the FQDN node/pool-member. This issue is resolved by the FQDNv2 feature re-implementation in this version of the software.

707447-2 : Default SNI clientssl profile's sni_certsn_hash can be freed while in use by other profiles.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SSL SNI mechanism creates a hash containing a mapping between SAN entries in a given profile's certificate and the profile. This hash is owned by the default NI profile, however is held by the other profiles on the VIP without a reference. If a connection utilizes SNI to use a non-default SNI profile *and* the default SNI profile reinitializes its state for any reason, the prf->sni_certsn_hash can be cleared and freed, leaving the existing connection(s) with profiles that refer to the freed hash. If then the connection attempts a renegotiation that causes the hash to be used, the freed hash can cause a fault should it have been reused in the meantime (i.e. the contents are invalid).

The fix: When the default SNI profile is initializing, and SSL handshake is searching SAN/COMMON cert from
non-default SNI profile, stop the search and return NULL.

Conditions:
SNI configured with one default SNI profile, one or multiple SNI profiles. The default SNI profile is changed and renegotiation with SNI(with non-default SNI profile) is issued.

Impact:
Traffic is disrupted while TMM restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
When the default SNI profile is initializing, and SSL handshake is searching SAN/COMMON cert from non-default SNI profile, stop the search and return NULL.

707445 : Nitrox 3 compression hangs/unable to recover

Solution Article: K47025244

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
LTM logs show the following message:

Nitrox 3, Hang Detected: compression device was reset

When the error manifests, there will be three error messages sent to the log over a period of several seconds. The device is then considered unrecoverable and marked down, and will no longer accept compression requests.

Conditions:
This applies only to vCMP guests. Some compression requests can stall the device after a bad compression request is made.

Note: Traffic volume and concurrence, along with the type of error have to occur together in order to result in this issue, so the issue is not easily reproduced.

Impact:
Once the device is marked down, compression will be sent to the software compression provider, until tmm on the device is restarted. This can cause local CPU utilization to climb.

Workaround:
There is no complete workaround without a software fix. However, compression will always default to the software compression provider when hardware cannot be recovered.

There are three recovery options available if the TMM-internal reset fails to recover the compression device automatically. These should be employed in this order:

A. Restart tmm using the command: bigstart restart tmm.
B. Restart the vCMP guest.
C. Restart the host (which restarts all guests).

Note: Because of the traffic volume, timing, and error type that cause this condition, this error might recur. This issue appears to be caused by a particular compression request. So regardless of the recovery method you execute, the problem may recur in a short time, or months later.

Fix:
Compression device reset recovery made more robust for some compression failures.

707310-1 : DNSSEC Signed Zone Transfers of Large Zones Can Be Incomplete (missing NSEC3s and RRSIGs)

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
It is possible that when performing a sufficiently large DNSSEC signed zone transfer (e.g., ~1 KB records) that the final packet (or several packets) of NSEC3s and RRSIGs could be missing from the zone. This issue can be detected using a free third-party tool such as ldns-verify-zone or some other DNSSEC validating tool.

Conditions:
-- Dynamic DNSSEC signing of zone transfers is configured for a given zone from an authoritative DNS Server (this could be on-box BIND, off-box BIND, etc.), or from DNS Express.

Impact:
The DNSSEC signed zone transfer could be incomplete, that is missing some NSEC3s and RRSIGs. An incomplete DNSSEC zone is considered an invalid zone.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
DNSSEC signed zone transfers from general authoritative DNS Servers as well as from DNS Express are now complete regardless of the number of records in the zone.

707226-2 : DB variables to disable CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown/PTI mitigations

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Mitigations might CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown/PTI (Page Table Isolation) can negatively impact performance.

Please see https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K91229003 for additional Spectre and Meltdown information.

Conditions:
Mitigations for CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown/PTI (Page Table Isolation) enabled.

Impact:
Meltdown/PTI mitigations may negatively impact performance.

Workaround:
Disable CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown/PTI mitigations.

To turn off mitigations for CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown/PTI, run the following command:

tmsh modify sys db kernel.pti value disable

Note: Turning off these mitigations renders the system vulnerable to CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown; but in order to take advantage of this vulnerability, they must already possess the ability to run arbitrary code on the system. Good access controls and keeping your system up-to-date with regards to security fixes will mitigate this risk on non-VCMP systems. vCMP systems with multiple tenants should leave these mitigations enabled.

Please see https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K91229003 for additional Spectre and Meltdown information.

Fix:
On releases that provide mitigations for CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown/PTI, the protection is enabled by default, but can be controlled using db variables.

Please see https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K91229003 for additional Spectre and Meltdown information.

707207-2 : iRuleLx returning undefined value may cause TMM restart

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When an iRulesLX rule returns an undefined value, TMM may restart. An example of an undefined value is one where
its jsonrpc v2.0 representation is missing required fields, such as "result".

Conditions:
iRulesLX is licensed, and a rule is run that returns an undefined value.

Impact:
Traffic is interrupted.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
A TMM restart resulting from an iRulesLX rule returning an undefined value was fixed.

707147-2 : High CPU consumed by asm_config_server_rpc_handler_async.pl

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
During a period of heavy learning from Policy Builder, typically due to Collapse Common elements, the backlog of events can cause a process to consume high CPU.

Conditions:
1) Automatic Policy Builder is enabled
2) An element is configured to "Always" learn new entities, and collapse common elements
3) An extended period of heavy learning due to traffic is enountered

Impact:
A process may consume high CPU even after the high traffic period is finished.

Workaround:
Kill asm_config_server.pl (This will not affect traffic)

Optionally modify one of the following
A) Learn "Always" to another mode
B) Turn off Collapse common URLs
C) Change from Automatic Learning to Manual

706845-1 : False positive illegal multipart violation

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
A false positive multipart violation.

Conditions:
Uploading a file with a filename value that is encoded in non utf-8 encoding.

Impact:
A false positive violation, request rejected.

Workaround:
Might be workaround using an irule

Fix:
Corrected ASM multipart parsing.

706631 : A remote TLS server certificate with a bad Subject Alternative Name should be rejected when Common Criteria mode is licensed and configured.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
According to RFC2818, if the certificate sent by the TLS server has a valid Common Name, but the Subject Alternative Name does not match the Authenticate Name in the server-ssl profile, the connection should be terminated.

Conditions:
-- A server-ssl profile is enabled on a virtual server and has the 'authenticate-name' property set.

-- The TLS server presents a certificate in which the Subject Alternative Name does not match the configured authenticate-name.

-- Common Criteria mode licensed and configured.

Impact:
A TLS connection succeeds which should fail.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
A remote TLS server certificate with a bad Subject Alternative Name is now rejected when Common Criteria mode is licensed and configured.

706423-2 : tmm may restart if an IKEv2 child SA expires during an async encryption or decryption

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
TMM may discard an existing child-SA via timer during the moment it is in use for encryption or decryption. And in another spot, an error aborting negotiation can cause multiple timers associated with one child-SA, which fight one another.

Conditions:
Errors in IPsec config that fail negotiation can happen when a child-SA is in a state that does not manage timers correctly.

A config with short SA lifetime, causing frequent re-keying, can have the effect of searching for a race condition when expire happens during active use in crypto.

Impact:
TMM restarts, disrupting traffic and causing HA failover.

Workaround:
Ensure that the IPsec IKEv2 configuration in the IPsec policy is correct (the same) on both IPsec peers. Also, ensure SA lifetime has longer duration, instead of merely seconds. (The default is one day.)

Fix:
Now we ensure only one timer can be associated with a child-SA related to short-term progress toward maturity during negotiation, even if an error happens.

Now we also ensure a child-SA is safe during async crypto operations, even if they expire while currently in use.

706374-2 : [Kerberos SSO] krb5 library need to use threadsafe res_ninit, res_nsearch instead of res_init, res_search

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Kerberos library uses deprecated and non-threadsafe functions to perform DNS SRV requests.

Conditions:
APM users using Kerberos SSO to access backend resources.

Impact:
This might result in unpredictable behaviour such as memory corruption or core. However, the occurence is rare since it only impacts concurrent DNS SRV requests to resolve different kdcs.

Workaround:
There is no workaround.

Fix:
Kerberos library now uses thread-safe functions to perform DNS SRV requests.

706305-2 : bgpd may crash with overlapping aggregate addresses and extended-asn-cap enabled

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
bgpd may crash on a BIG-IP system configured for dynamic routing announcing multiple overlapping aggregate-addresses with extended asn capabilities enabled.

Conditions:
- BGP enabled on route-domain
- BGP configured to announce several overlapping aggregate-addresses
- BGP configured with extended-asn-cap enabled.

Impact:
Inability for the unit to use BGP

Workaround:
Disabling extended-asn-cap or not announcing multiple overlapping aggregate addresses may allow to workaround this issue.

Fix:
bgpd no longer crashes with overlapping aggregate addresses and extended-asn-cap enabled

706128-1 : DNSSEC Signed Zone Transfers Can Leak Memory

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
TMM might leak memory when performing DNSSEC signed zone transfers. You can detect this issue by examining system memory before and after performing zone transfers.

For example:

tmsh show sys memory raw | grep dnssec

Conditions:
-- Dynamic DNSSEC signing of zone transfers is configured for a given zone from an authoritative DNS Server (this could be on-box BIND, off-box BIND, etc) or from DNS Express.

Impact:
TMM leaks memory related to the signed zone transfer.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
TMM no longer leaks DNSSEC zone transfer related memory.

706086-1 : PAM RADIUS authentication subsystem hardening

Solution Article: K62750376

705794-1 : Under certain circumstances a stale http2 stream can cause a tmm crash

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A HTTP2 stream is getting overlooked when cleaning up a HTTP2 flow.

Conditions:
Currently only known is that the closing_stream is not empty. Exact entrance conditions not clear.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
HTTP2 flows are properly cleaned up to prevent a tmm crash.

705611-1 : The TMM may crash when under load when configuration changes occur when the HTTP/2 profile is used

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The TMM may later crash after a configuration change done under load if the HTTP/2 profile is used.

Conditions:
A configuration change occurs. The configuration change is large enough, or the TMM load large enough that the change is not synchronous. The change involves a HTTP/2 profile.

Data traffic progresses through a partially initialized HTTP/2 virtual server, potentially causing a later crash.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Large configuration changes to the TMM involving a HTTP/2 profile will no longer potentially cause a TMM crash.

705503-1 : Context leaked from iRule DNS lookup

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
The memory usage increases, and stats are inaccurate.

Conditions:
Call RESOLV::lookup from an iRule.

Impact:
Memory leak that accumulates over time and inaccurate stats.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than not using RESOLV::lookup in an iRule.

Fix:
Memory leak no longer occurs.

705476-4 : Appliance Mode does not follow design best practices

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Appliance Mode does not follow design best practices

Conditions:
Appliance Mode does not follow design best practices

Impact:
Appliance Mode does not follow design best practices

Fix:
Appliance Mode now follows design best practices

704804-2 : The NAS-IP-Address in RADIUS remote authentication is unexpectedly set to the loopback address

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The NAS-IP-Address in RADIUS remote authentication requests is set to the loopback address, not the management IP.

Conditions:
This applies to remote authentication for the control plane, not APM.

Impact:
Login may be impacted.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

704733-2 : NAS-IP-Address will be sent with the bytes backwards

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The NAS-IP-Address will have the address of the local device sent with the bytes backwards (78.56.30.172 where 172.30.56.78 would be expected).

Conditions:
This affects IPv4 addresses only.

Impact:
The server may be configured to check the NAS-IP-Address before allowing logins, in which case it would fail.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
This has been corrected.

704666-2 : memory corruption can occur when using certain certificates

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
If a certificate has an extremely long common name, or an extremely long alternative name and is attached to an SSL profile, memory corruption can occur when loading the profile.

Conditions:
An SSL profile is loaded with a certificate containing an extremely long common name or subject alternative name.

Impact:
TMM could crash.

Workaround:
Do not use certificates with extremely long common names

Fix:
A length check has been added to avoid corruption when using extremely long common names.

704580-3 : apmd service may restart when BIG-IP is used as SAML SP while processing response from SAML IdP

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions apmd service may restart when processing response from SAML IdP.

Conditions:
BIG-IP is configured as SAML SP. BIG-IP is processing SAML message from IdP

Impact:
Temporarily users will not be able to authenticate agains BIG-IP
until apmd service starts up.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
apmd service will no longer restart when processing messages from IdP.

704524-2 : [Kerberos SSO] Support for EDNS for kerberos DNS SRV queries

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Kerberos DNS SRV requests do not contain EDNS headers. Without this header, DNS server truncates the UDP responses if it is greater than 512 bytes, causing the DNS request to be re-sent on TCP connections. This results in unnecessary round trips in order to resolve DNS SRV queries.

Conditions:
APM users using Kerberos SSO to access backend resources.

Impact:
Increased latency of HTTP request processing. If the number of APM users is large, then this issue is magnified.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Kerberos DNS SRV requests now support EDNS0 so that UDP responses greater than 512 bytes can be received correctly, eliminating the need to re-send the request on TCP.

704490 : CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown)

Solution Article: K91229003

704483 : CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre Variant 1)

Solution Article: K91229003

704381-3 : SSL/TLS handshake failures and terminations are logged at too low a level

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SSL/TLS handshake failures and terminations are being logged at too low of a level (INFO).

Conditions:
-- SSL/TLS connections are received or sent.
-- Handshake failures are logged.

Impact:
Sometimes other errors are produced, and the cause is a SSL/TLS handshake failure, but this failure is not being logged.

Workaround:
There is no workaround.

Fix:
SSL/TLS handhake failures and terminations are now logged at a higher level (WARNING).

704336-3 : Updating 3rd party device cert not copied correctly to trusted certificate store

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When a BIG-IP admin updates the Device Certificate which also includes multiple CA intermediate and root certificates, it's expected that the new Device Certificate and its trust chain certificates are written to /config/big3d/client.crt and /config/gtm/server.crt. However, if the new Device Certificate is signed by a third party, only the Device Certificate is copied to client.crt and server.crt, even though root and intermediate certificates are written to /config/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt.

Conditions:
Updating Device certificate which also includes multiple intermediate and root certificates.

Impact:
The Trusted Device and Trusted server Certificates do not include intermediate CA and root certificates.

Workaround:
Manually copy/append the missing intermediate and root certificate to /config/big3d/client.crt and /config/gtm/server.crt.

Fix:
The fix will now add all the intermediate and root certificate including device certificate to Trusted Server and Trusted Device certificate bundle.

704282-3 : TMM halts and restarts when calculating BWC pass rate for dynamic bwc policy

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Rarely, TMM halts and restarts when calculating the BWC pass rate for dynamic bwc policy.

Conditions:
-- Using BWC dynamic bwc policy.
-- Fair share rate is low.

For this to happen, the fair share rate of the instance of dynamic policy has to be less than than 32 times the average packet size of the instance of policy.

For example, if the average packet size is 1 KB, then the fair share would be under 32 KB.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
F5 does not recommend running the BWC under 64Kbps.

Either decrease the number of subscribers or increase the max-rate of dynamic policy.

Fix:
TMM no longer halts and restarts when calculating the BWC pass rate for dynamic bwc policy when fair share rate is low.

704143-2 : BD memory leak

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
A BD memory leak.

Conditions:
websocket traffic with specific configuration

Impact:
Resident memory increases, swap getting used.

Workaround:
Make sure the web socket violations are not due to bad websocket URL configuration, that they are turned on in Learn/Alarm or block and that there is a local logger configured and attached.

704073-3 : Repeated 'bad transition' OOPS logging may appear in /var/log/ltm and /var/log/tmm

Solution Article: K24233427

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
'bad transition' OOPS messages may be repeatedly logged to /var/log/ltm and /var/log/tmm over time, polluting the log files.

Conditions:
Although there are no definitive user-discernible conditions, use of SSL functionality might increase the likelihood of logging.

Impact:
Log pollution and potential for performance degradation.

Workaround:
Suppress the logging using the following command:
tmsh modify sys db tmm.oops value silent

Fix:
The 'bad transition' OOPS logging has been demoted to internal, debug builds only.

703984-2 : Machine Cert agent improperly matches hostname with CN and SAN

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Machine certificate agent will match configured host name with actual host name if configured name matches beginning of the actual hostname.

Conditions:
MacOS APM client.

Impact:
Hostname match may be incorrect in these cases.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
In the previous release, the macOS machine cert agent checked only the beginning of the client hostname and certificate common name. The machine cert agent now checks the entire strings.

703940-3 : Malformed HTTP/2 frame consumes excessive system resources

Solution Article: K45611803

703914-1 : TMM SIGSEGV crash in poolmbr_conn_dec.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TMM cores in poolmbr_conn_dec function.

Conditions:
A connection limit is reached on a VS having an iRule using LB::reselect and a pool using request queueing.

Impact:
TMM core, traffic interruption, possible failover.

Workaround:
Do not use LB::reselect, disable request queueing on a pool associated with the VS.

Fix:
TMM correctly handles LB:reselect on virtual servers with pools using request queueing.

703869-1 : Waagent updated to 2.2.21

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Microsoft updates waagent via an opensource process, but it is not compatible with BIG-IP software, and so cannot be upgraded outside of BIG-IP releases. Without this, Microsoft will not support older releases of BIG-IP systems in their environment.

Conditions:
Using Microsoft Azure.

Impact:
Microsoft does not support the version of waagent shipped as part of BIG-IP software.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Waagent was updated to 2.2.21 from Microsoft along with F5 changes for compatibility with BIG-IP software.

703761-1 : Disable DSA keys for public-key and host-based authentication in Common Criteria mode

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
On a BIG-IP system configured for Common Criteria (CC) mode, DSA keys can still be used for key-based authentication to the BIG-IP system.

Conditions:
-- Running a CC release with CC Mode enabled.
-- Attempt to SSH-connect to the BIG-IP system from another system with a DSA key.
-- That DSA key is present in the BIG-IP system's authorized_keys file.

Impact:
If the key is in the BIG-IP system's authorized_keys file, public-key authentication succeeds, when DSA authentication should be disabled in CC mode.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
DSA SSH keys are now disabled for public-key and host-based authentication in Common Criteria mode, as expected.

703580 : TLS1.1 handshake failure on v12.1.3 vCMP guest with earlier BIG-IP version on vCMP host.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TLS1.1 handshake failure on guest. The following error appears in /var/log/ltm:
warning tmm[11611]: 01260009:4: Connection error: ssl_hs_cn_vfy_fin:2339: corrupt Finished (20)

Conditions:
-- Using the VIPRION 42xx/43xx and B21xx blades.
-- Running BIG-IP software earlier than v12.1.3 (for example v12.1.2-hf2) on the vCMP host system.
-- Deploying vCMP guest running v12.1.3.
-- Using TLS1.1.

Impact:
TLS1.1 handshake fails on the guest.

Workaround:
Use the same software version on the vCMP host and vCMP guests.

Fix:
TLS1.1 handshake no longer fails running v12.x/v13.x vCMP guest with earlier BIG-IP software version on vCMP host.

703515-5 : MRF SIP LB - Message corruption when using custom persistence key

Solution Article: K44933323

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
If the custom persistence key is not a multiple of 3 bytes, the SIP request message may be corrupted when the via header is inserted.

Conditions:
Custom persistence key is not a multiple of 3 bytes

Impact:
The SIP request message may be corrupted when the via header is inserted.

Workaround:
Pad the custom persistence key to a multiple of 3 bytes in length.

Fix:
All persistence key lengths work as expected.

703429-1 : Citrix Receiver for Android (v3.13.1) crashes while accessing PNAgent services

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Citrix Receiver for Android (v3.13.1) crashes while accessing PNAgent services through F5 BIG-IP APM virtual server. The application closes just after entering the credentials.

Conditions:
-- Citrix Receiver for Android (v3.13.1) is used.
-- PNAgent replacement mode is configured for BIG-IP APM virtual server.

Impact:
No access to published Applications and Desktops through Citrix Receiver for Android.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
System now provides valid data to Citrix Receiver for Android client.

702946-2 : Added option to reset staging period for signatures

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
In cases where a staging period was started, but no traffic passed through security policy, you might want to reset the staging period when traffic starts, but there is no option to do so.

Conditions:
Staging enabled for signatures in policy.

Impact:
There is a suggestion to enforce the signature before any traffic can influence this decision.

Workaround:
If all signatures are staged, you can enforce them all, and then enable staging again.

Note: Apply policy is required between actions.

Fix:
Added option to reset the staging period for all or specific signatures. In modal windows shown after clicking 'Change properties...' on the Policy Signatures screen, when 'No' is not selected for 'Perform Staging', the system presents a checkbox: Reset Staging Period.

702738 : Tmm might crash activating new blob when changing firewall rules

Solution Article: K32181540

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
TMM crashes with core when changing firewall rules. TMM can enter a crash-loop, so it will crash again after restarting.

Conditions:
Updating, removing, or adding firewall rules.

Specific characteristics of change that can cause this issue are unknown; this issue occurs rarely.

Impact:
Data traffic processing stops.

Workaround:
There are two workaround options:
Option A
1. Delete all policies.
2. Create them again without allowing blob compilation.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until all the policies have been created (enable on-demand-compilation).

Option B
Modify all the rules simultaneously.

For example, the following steps will resolve this issue:
1. Enable on-demand-compilation
2. Select an IP address that is not used in any rules, e.g., 1.1.1.1.
3. Add that IP address to all the rules/source in all of the policies. To do so, run the following command for each policy:
tmsh modify security firewall policy POLICY_NAME rules modify { all { source { addresses add { 1.1.1.1 } } } }

4. Delete the IP address (restore rules) in all of the policies. To do so, run the following command for each policy:
tmsh modify security firewall policy POLICY_NAME rules modify { all { source { addresses delete { 1.1.1.1 } } } }
5. Disable on-demand-compilation. Doing so starts new blob compilation.

Fix:
TMM no longer crashes when changing firewall rules.

702490-4 : Windows Credential Reuse feature may not work

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Windows Credential Reuse feature may not work requiring that the EdgeClient end user enter credentials in the EdgeClient login window as well as at the Microsoft Windows logon screen, instead of getting Single Sign-On (SSO).

The logterminal.txt file contains messages similar to the following:

<Date and time>, 1312,1320,, 48, \certinfo.cpp, 926, CCertInfo::IsSignerTrusted(), the file is signed by 3rd party certificate
<Date and time>, 1312,1320,, 1, \certinfo.cpp, 1004, CCertInfo::IsSignerTrusted(), EXCEPTION - CertFindCertificateInStore() failed, -2146885628 (0x80092004) Cannot find object or property.
<Date and time>, 1312,1320,, 1, \certinfo.cpp, 1009, , EXCEPTION caught
<Date and time>, 1312,1320,, 1, \CredMgrSrvImpl.cpp, 256, IsTrustedClient, EXCEPTION - File signed by untrusted certificate
<Date and time>, 1312,1320,, 1, \CredMgrSrvImpl.cpp, 264, , EXCEPTION caught
<Date and time>, 1312,1320,, 1, \CredMgrSrvImpl.cpp, 360, GetCredentials, EXCEPTION - Access Denied - client not trusted

Conditions:
-- Using a specific combination of versions of F5 Credential Manager Service and EdgeClient on Windows systems.
-- The Reuse Credential option is enabled in the Connectivity Profile.

Impact:
The EdgeClient end user must retype credentials in EdgeClient login windows instead of having the login occur without requiring credentials, as SSO supports.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Previously, in some situations, Windows Credential Reuse did not work, requiring the EdgeClient end user to log in separately. This issue has been fixed.

702487-1 : AD/LDAP admins with spaces in names are not supported

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
If admin is imported from Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and the name contains spaces, Visual Policy Editor (VPE), import/export/copy/delete, etc., fail, and post an error message similar to the following: sourceMCPD::loadDll User 'test user' have no access to partition 'Common'.

Note: Names containing spaces are not supported on BIG-IP systems.

Conditions:
-- Admin name containing spaces is imported from AD or LDAP.
-- Attempt to perform operations in VPE.

Impact:
VPE, import/export/copy/delete do not work.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than to not use admin names containing spaces.

Fix:
VPE and utilities operations are now supported, even for admins with spaces in names. However, F5 recommends against using spaces in admin names, and recommends that you modify the admin name to remove the spaces.

702278-3 : Potential XSS security exposure on APM logon page.

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Potential XSS security exposure on APM logon page.

Conditions:
-- A LTM virtual server with an Access Policy assigned to it.
-- The Access Policy is configured to use a 'Logon Page' VPE agent, followed by AAA agent with 'Max Logon Attempts Allowed' set to a value greater than 1.

Impact:
Potential XSS security exposure.

Workaround:
1. Using APM Advance Customization UI, remove setOrigUriLink(); call in logon.inc from the next JS function:

369 function OnLoad()
370 {
371 var header = document.getElementById("credentials_table_header");
372 var softTokenHeaderStr = getSoftTokenPrompt();
373 if ( softTokenHeaderStr ) {
374 header.innerHTML = softTokenHeaderStr;
375 }
376 setFormAttributeByQueryParams("auth_form", "action", "/subsession_logon_submit.php3");
377 setFormAttributeByQueryParams("v2_original_url", "href", "/subsession_logon_submit.php3");
378 // ===> REMOVE THIS ONE setOrigUriLink();
----

Fix:
Potential security exposure has been removed from APM logon page.

702151-2 : HTTP/2 can garble large headers

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The HTTP/2 filter may incorrectly encode large headers.

Conditions:
A header that encodes to larger than 2048 bytes may be incorrectly encoded.

Impact:
The garbled header may no longer conform to the HPACK spec, and cause the connection to be dropped. The garbled header may be correctly formed, but contain incorrect data.

Fix:
The HTTP/2 filter correctly encodes large HTTP headers.

701900 : DHCP configured domain-name-servers unavailable after reboot when there are more than two domain-name servers in the lease.

Solution Article: K55938217

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
DHCP-configured domain-name-servers (DNS) unavailable after reboot when there are more than two domain-name-servers in the lease.

Conditions:
- DHCP is enabled on the mgmt interface.
- DHCP server provides more than 2 domain-name-servers in its lease.

Impact:
Name resolution on mgmt interface fails due to misconfiguration in DNS information for mgmt interface.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
This release corrects the handling of multiple DNS name-servers.

701841-1 : Unnecessary file recovery_db/conf.tar.gz consumes /var disk space

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
A file, /ts/var/install/recovery_db/conf.tar.gz ,is saved unnecessarily during UCS file save, and consumes /var disk space.

Conditions:
UCS file is saved.

Impact:
The /var filesystem can become full; this may degrade system performance over time, and can eventually lead to traffic disruptions.

Workaround:
Manually delete /ts/var/install/recovery_db/conf.tar.

Fix:
Unnecessary file recovery_db/conf.tar.gz is no longer written.

701626-1 : GUI resets custom Certificate Key Chain in child client SSL profile

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
In the GUI, editing a client SSL profile or selecting a different parent profile changes the Certificate Key Chain to default (i.e., /Common/default.crt and /Common/default.key).

Conditions:
This happens in the following scenario:

1. Using the GUI, create a client SSL profile.
2. Configure the new profile to inherit from a client SSL profile other than the default, clientssl.
3. Click the Custom box for Certificate Key Chain and select a different cert and key from the default.
4. Click Update.
5. In the GUI, change any setting in the newly created profile, or select a different parent profile (but not the clientssl profile).
6. Click Update again.

Impact:
The system resets Certificate Key Chain to default, even though the Custom box is checked.

Workaround:
To work around this issue in the GUI, click the Custom checkbox next to the 'Certificate Key Chain' option in the parent profile. This will set the value of inherit-certkeychain to false , preventing the issue from occurring.

You can also use tmsh to update parent profile settings to avoid the occurrence of this issue..

Fix:
GUI no longer resets custom Certificate Key Chain in child client SSL profiles.

701609 : Static member of pool with FQDN members may revert to user-disabled after being re-enabled

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Within an LTM pool containing both FQDN members and members configured with static IP addresses; a statically-configured member that had been disabled (session = user-disabled) and then re-enabled (session = user-enabled) may become disabled again after making other changes affecting the state of other FQDN members of the pool.

Conditions:
This may occur under the following conditions:
- An LTM pool containing a mix of FQDN and statically-configured members.
- A statically-configured pool member is disabled (session = user-disabled) and then re-enabled (session = user-enabled).
- Other changes occur which affect the availability of FQDN pool members.
For example, if a route to an FQDN pool member is deleted and recreated, a previously-disabled statically-configured member may revert to a disabled state.

Depending on circumstances, the issue may only occur once after BIG-IP, TMM, bigd, or a related daemon restarts.

Impact:
A pool member may be unexpectedly disabled after being re-enabled, and thus would not receive traffic.

Workaround:
It may be possible to work around this issue by disabling and re-enabling the statically-configured pool member again.

Fix:
Statically-configured pool members of a pool that also contains FQDN members remain enabled after being manually disabled then re-enabled. This issue is resolved by the FQDNv2 feature re-implementation in this version of the software.

701359-2 : BIND vulnerability CVE-2017-3145

Solution Article: K08613310

701327-1 : failed configuration deletion may cause unwanted bd exit

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Immediately after the deletion of a configuration fails, bd exists.

Conditions:
When deleting a configuration fails.

Impact:
Unwanted bd restart.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
bd will exit upon a failed configuration only when configured to exit on failure.

701249-2 : RADIUS authentication requests erroneously specify NAS-IP-Address of 127.0.0.1

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
RADIUS requests from BIG-IP have attribute NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1, which might cause authentication to fail.

The NAS-IP-Address is essentially the resource an end user client is trying to authenticate to. This is typically the management IP address of the BIG-IP system, but the BIG-IP system always sends 127.0.0.1 instead. That might fail or it might work, depending on how the server is configured.

Conditions:
This is an issue for all RADIUS authentication requests that use the attribute NAS-IP-Address.

Note: This affects remote control plane authentication only, not APM or other uses of RADIUS.

Impact:
BIG-IP system always sends 127.0.0.1 instead of the BIG-IP system's management IP address. RADIUS server might not service the request, so authentication fails.

Workaround:
There is no workaround.

701202-1 : SSL memory corruption

Solution Article: K35023432

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
In some instances random memory can be corrupted causing TMM core.

Conditions:
SSL is configured (either client-ssl or server-ssl) and SNI is used to select a non-default profile.

Impact:
TMM crash, disrupting traffic.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
The memory corruption issue has been fixed.

700889-2 : Software syncookies without TCP TS improperly include TCP options that are not encoded

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When sending a software syncookie and there is no TCP timestamp option, tmm sends back TCP options like window scaling (WS), sackOK, etc. The values for these options are encoded in the timestamp field which is not sent. When the final ACK of the 3WHS arrives (without a timestamp), there is no way to know that the BIG-IP system negotiated the use of SACK, WS and other options that were encoded in the timestamp. This will leave the client believing that options are enabled and the BIG-IP believing that they are not.

Conditions:
TCP timestamps are disabled by the client, or in the TCP profile.

Impact:
In one known case, the client was Windows 7 which apparently disables timestamps by default. Users might experience poor connection performance because the client believed it was using WS, and that the BIG-IP system would scale up the advertised window. However, the BIG-IP system does not using WS in this case, and used the window size from the TCP header directly, causing the BIG-IP system to send small packets (believing it had filled the window) and wait for a response.

Workaround:
Specifically prevent the WS issue by lowering the send_buffer_size and receive_window_size to less than or equal to 65535.

Fix:
Added dependency between the window scale option and the timestamp option in a SYN/ACK response.

700862-2 : tmm SIGFPE 'valid node'

Solution Article: K15130240

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A rare TMM crash with tmm SIGFPE 'valid node' may occur if the host is unreachable.

Conditions:
The host is unreachable.

Impact:
Lack of stability on the device. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
This fix handles a rare TMM crash when the host is unreachable.

700812-2 : asmrepro recognizes a BIG-IP version of 13.1.0.1 as 13.1.0 and fails to load a qkview

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
asmrepro recognizes a BIG-IP version of 13.1.0.1 as 13.1.0 and fails to load a qkview.

Conditions:
Try to deploy a qkview on a BIG-IP using the asmrepro tool
while BIG-IP has a 4 element version like 13.1.0.1.

Impact:
Cannot deploy a 4 element version qkview on a BIG-IP using the asmrepro tool.

Workaround:
n/a

Fix:
asmrepro now handles the version number properly.

700783-3 : Machine certificate check does not check against all FQDN hostnames

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
macOS machine can be on multiple networks simultaneously, so it might have multiple hostnames. Machine certificate check does not check against all FQDN hostnames. This causes failure in certain scenarios.

Conditions:
-- macOS configuration with multiple hostnames.
-- The 'match FQDN with subject alt name' option is specified for machine certificate check.

Impact:
Machine cert check might fail.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
Previously, with a macOS system that had multiple hostnames, the machine certificate check could not check against all hostnames, causing failures in some scenarios. Now, the machine certificate check compares all hostnames on macOS devices.

700780-4 : F5 DNS Relay Proxy service now warns about and clears truncated flag in proxied DNS responses

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
F5 DNS Relay Proxy service does not support DNS-over-TCP requests, so if, in some configuration, the client resolver decides to use TCP for DNS resolution, this packet is not re-routed/proxied by the DNS Relay Proxy service, and may be causing DNS to be resolved using an incorrect DNS server (where the system decides to send it).

Typically, if a client receives DNS response with the TC flag set, it retries using TCP. Clearing the TC flag makes client resolver not use TCP at all, preventing DNS packets leakage.

Conditions:
-- DNS server responds with TC flag set in DNS response packet.
-- Windows only is affected.

Impact:
DNS resolution may not work as designed, as the system might send a packet to an incorrect DNS server.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Now F5 DNS Relay Proxy service clears TC flag in all proxied packets, preventing client DNS resolvers from using TCP. An appropriate log entry is printed into the service's log.

700726-1 : Search engine list was updated

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Default search engine list does not identify current search engines, and blocks traffic unnecessarily.

Conditions:
Site accessed by search engines.

Impact:
Traffic from search engines is blocked unnecessarily.

Workaround:
Manually add search engines.

Fix:
Search engine list has been updated to reflect current common search engine usage.

700571-2 : SIP MR profile, setting incorrect branch param for CANCEL to INVITE

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
BIG-IP SIP profile MR does not maintain the Via 'branch parameter' ID when the Via header insertion is enabled for INVITE and CANCEL for the same INVITE.

Conditions:
This happens only when the following conditions are both met:
-- The transport connection that issued INVITE has been terminated.
-- A new transport is used to issue CANCEL

Impact:
The result is different branch IDs for the BIG-IP system-generated Via header. INVITE is only cancelled on the calling side, while on the called side, the line will ring until time out.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The branch parameter value calculation now remains consistent throughout the connection.

700564-2 : JavaScript errors shown when debugging a mobile device with ASM deviceID enabled

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
When debugging a mobile device with ASM Device ID enabled, the Google Chrome browser console log contains JavaScript errors similar to the following: net::ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME.

Note: In order to view the Chrome browser console log, you must use BrowserStack from a developer's console, or physically connect the phone by cable, enable 'usb debug',
enable 'device discovery' on Chrome on the desktop, and view the console from there.

Conditions:
-- ASM policy is attached on a virtual server with deviceID enabled.
-- Device ID collection request has been sent from a mobile device.
-- Chrome browser console log is opened.

Impact:
Mobile device app developers might be concerned about the errors, potentially asking about why the ASM JavaScript code attempts to access UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME in a mobile device.

The errors occur because Device ID enabled on an ASM policy uses the JavaScript request URI argument 'chrome-extension' to detect the existence of malicious browser extension. However, Chrome on Android/iOS does not support 'chrome-extension'.

Workaround:
Disable Device ID in ASM policy.

Fix:
The system now avoids checking Chrome extensions on mobile devices, so no UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME errors occur.

700556-2 : TMM may crash when processing WebSockets data

Solution Article: K11718033

700527-1 : cmp-hash change can hang iRule DNS lookup

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
An iRule that uses RESOLV::lookup can hang repeatedly when cmp-hash configuration is changed.

Conditions:
An iRule must be in the middle of a call to RESOLV::lookup when a vlan cmp-hash configuration is changed.

Impact:
The iRule call can hang repeatedly.

Workaround:
Restart the TMM. This will interrupt client traffic.

Fix:
The iRule connection is reestablished when the pending query expires, so subsequent RESOLV::lookup calls do not hang per TMM.

700433-2 : Memory leak when attaching an LTM policy to a virtual server

Solution Article: K10870739

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
MCP's memory increases when deleting and adding an LTM policy attached to a virtual server.

Conditions:
-- LTM policies must be in use.
-- A policy with at least one rule. (Note: A rule with actions or conditions will leak more memory.)
-- Add the policy to a virtual server.

Impact:
MCP may run slower when memory is low. If all memory is used up, MCP will crash, which will cause a failover or outage.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now prevents MCP from leaking memory when attaching an LTM policy to a virtual server.

700393-2 : Under certain circumstances a stale http2 stream can cause a tmm crash

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Tmm may crash due to a stale/stalled HTTP2 stream.

Conditions:
http2 profile in use.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Stale/stalled HTTP2 streams are handled correctly to prevent a tmm crash.

700330 : AJAX blocking page isn't shown when a webpage uses jQuery framework.

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Request is blocked by an ASM policy, but the ASM end user does not see the blocking page with a unique support id for the blocked request.

Conditions:
1. ASM policy Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) blocking page enabled.
2. ASM policy is working in blocking mode.
3. ASM policy attached to a virtual server.
4. AJAX request has been sent and blocked.

Impact:
ASM end user has no visual indication that there has been a blocked AJAX request.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now handles Ajax requests being sent via the JQuery framework.

700315-3 : Ctrl+C does not terminate TShark

Solution Article: K26130444

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
A running TShark process on the BIG-IP system has problems exiting when the user is finished capturing and presses CTRL+C while listening on a tmm VLAN or 0.0.

Conditions:
-- Using TShark on a tmm VLAN or 0.0.
-- Pressing Ctrl+C to exit.

Impact:
TShark does not exit as expected when pressing CTRL+C.

Workaround:
To recover, you can move the process to the background (CTRL+Z) and then halt the process, by running a command similar to the following: kill -9 'pidof tshark'

Fix:
Ctrl+C now terminates TShark as expected.

700143-1 : ASM Request Logs: Cannot delete second 10,000 records of filtered event log messages

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Attempting to delete request logs by a filter (10,000 at a time), only works once. Subsequent delete by filter actions do not remove additional earlier logs.

Conditions:
System has over 10,000 ASM request logs by a selected filter, and delete all by filter is used multiple times.

Impact:
Only the latest 10,000 events are deleted.

Workaround:
No work around for deleting by a filter.
Delete all (without filter) works, and deleting selected requests works.

Fix:
Deletion by filter correctly deletes subsequent sets of 10,000 rows per action.

700061-3 : Restarting service MCPD or rebooting BIG-IP device adds 'other' file read permissions to key file

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Restarting service MCPD or rebooting the BIG-IP device adds Unix 'other' read file permissions for key files.
Key files Unix permission changes from '-rw-r-----' to
'-rw-r--r--'

Conditions:
1. Restarting the service MCPD
2. Rebooting BIG-IP device.

Impact:
Key file Unix read permission changes from '-rw-r-----' to
'-rw-r--r--'

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Fix made sure restart of service MCPD and reboot of device does not change key files Unix read permissions from '-rw-r-----' to
'-rw-r--r--'

700057-3 : LDAP fails to initiate SSL negotiation because client cert and key associated file permissions are not preserved

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
After upgrading to an affected build, the default key will have incorrect group ownership.

Conditions:
Upgrade or load a .ucs with SSL keys configured.

Impact:
File permissions are not preserved in the .ucs file. The httpd process will not be able to use the default key, so anything using it will fail.

Workaround:
Run the following two commands:
tmsh save /sys config
tmsh load /sys config

Fix:
The system now preserves correct permissions for default.key across upgrade and ucs load.

699720-3 : ASM crash when configuring remote logger for WebSocket traffic with response-logging:all

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
ASM may crash when configuring remote logger for WebSocket traffic virtual server.

Conditions:
-- Virtual server handling WebSocket traffic.
-- ASM remote logger on the same virtual server.

Impact:
ASM crash; system goes offline.

Workaround:
Use either of the following workarounds:

-- Remove remote logger.
-- Have response logging for illegal requests only.

Fix:
The system now handles memory correctly and avoids crashing in this specific scenario.

699531-3 : Potential TMM crash due to incorrect number of attributes in a PEM iRule command

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
TMM crash.

Conditions:
An iRule with a PEM iRule command that does not have the minimum number of attributes.

Impact:
Loss of service. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Make sure the PEM iRule command is called with at least the minimum number of parameters.

For example, make sure to call 'PEM::subscriber config policy referential set' with referential policies.

Fix:
The system now provides the correct number of attributes, preventing a NULL pointer dereference.

699455-3 : SAML export does not follow best practices

Solution Article: K50254952

699431 : Possible memory leak in MRF under low memory

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
MRF may leak a session db record when a memory allocation failure occurs when adding a connection to an internal table. In this the table entry will not be cleaned up when the connection closes.

Conditions:
MRF may leak a session db record when a memory allocation failure occurs when adding a connection to an internal table. In this the table entry will not be cleaned up when the connection closes.

Impact:
The table entry will be remain until the box resets.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
The code has been fixed to remove the table entry when a memory allocation failure occurs while adding the record.

699346-2 : NetHSM capacity reduces when handling errors

Solution Article: K53931245

699339-1 : Geolocation upgrade files fail to replicate to secondary blades

Solution Article: K24634702

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
Geolocation upgrade files fail to replicate to secondary blades.

Conditions:
-- Multiblade VIPRION platforms/vCMP guests.
-- Upgrading geolocation files on the primary blade.
-- Viewing the geolocation files on the secondary blades.

Impact:
Geoip database is not updated to match primary blade.

Workaround:
Use either of the following workarounds:

-- Use the root account to manually create the /shared/GeoIP/v2 directory on secondary blades, and then run geoip_update_data on primary blade.

-- On primary blade:
1. Edit /etc/csyncd.conf as shown below.
2. Restart csyncd.
3. Run geoip_update_data.

To edit /etc/csyncd.conf:

Merge the following two terms:
monitor dir /shared/GeoIP {...)
monitor dir /shared/GeoIP/v2 {...}

into one term, as follows:
monitor dir /shared/GeoIP {
        queue geoip
        pull pri2sec
        recurse yes
        defer no
        lnksync yes
        md5 no
        post "/usr/local/bin/geoip_reload_data"
}

Fix:
Geolocation upgrade files now correctly replicate to secondary blades.

699281 : Version format of hypervisor bundle matches Version format of ISO

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Recently F5 incorporated 4th element into versioning scheme. 4th and 5th are separated by dash (instead of dot) in ISO name. This change/bug insures that names of hypervisor bundles also use dash between 4th and 5th elements.

Conditions:
Applies to hypervisor bundles (for example ova files for vmware).

Impact:
Version format in names of hypervisor bundles matches version format of ISO file

Workaround:
Version format in names of hypervisor bundles matches version format of ISO file

Fix:
Version format in names of hypervisor bundles matches version format of ISO file (usage of dash between 4th and 5th elements).

699267-1 : LDAP Query may fail to resolve nested groups

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
LDAP Query agent may fail to resolve nested groups for a user.
/var/log/apm logfile contains the following error messages when 'debug' log level is enabled for Access Profile:
err apmd[17159]: 014902bb:3: /Common/ldap_access:Common:254fdc14 Failed to process the LDAP search result while getting group membership down with error (No such object.).
err apmd[17159]: 014902bb:3: /Common/ldap_access:Common:254fdc14 Failed to process the LDAP search result while querying LDAP with error (No such object.).

Conditions:
LDAP Query agent is configured in an Access Policy.
'Fetch groups to which the user or group belong' option is enabled

Impact:
LDAP Query agent fails.
unable to get user identity.
unable to finalize Access Policy.

Fix:
after fix, LDAP Query resolves all nested groups as expected and session.ldap.last.attr.memberOf attributes contains user's groups

699262-2 : FQDN pool member status remains in 'checking' state after full config sync

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
After performing a full config-sync (with overwrite config option checked) the sync target (peer) shows FQDN pool members stuck in the 'checking' state.

Conditions:
This occurs after a full config sync is forced between peers using FQDN pool members:

tmsh modify cm device-group <dg_name> devices modify { <local_member> { set-sync-leader } }

Impact:
Affected pools show an Availability state of 'unknown', although pool members are available and can pass traffic.

Workaround:
Restart bigd on the affected peer after the config sync.

Fix:
After performing a full config-sync (with overwrite config option checked) the sync target (peer) no longer shows FQDN pool members stuck in the 'checking' state. This issue is resolved by the FQDNv2 feature re-implementation in this version of the software.

699147 : Hourly billed cloud images are now pre-licensed

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Hourly billed images in cloud environments require outbound internet access to the F5 public license server in order to retrieve a license. This causes some sites with strict network access policies to fail to license.

Conditions:
Using hourly billing.

Impact:
Hourly instances do not receive licenses and thus could not pass traffic without outbound internet access.

Workaround:
Enable outbound internet access when the guest instance is created to allow it to license, then revoke it.

Fix:
Hourly billed cloud images are now pre-licensed and so do not require internet access to receive a license.

699135-2 : tmm cores with SIGSEGV in dns_rebuild_response while using host command for not A/AAAA wideip

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
tmm cores with SIGSEGV in dns_rebuild_response.

Conditions:
1. Create a wideip of type other than A/AAAA.
2. Create a iRule with a host command for the previously created wideip.
3. Create a related zonerunner record with the same name and type.
4. Dig against the wideip with type any.
5. Observe that tmm cores.

Impact:
tmm cores.

Workaround:
Don't use host command for non type A/AAAA wideips.

698947-1 : BIG-IP may incorrectly drop packets from a GRE tunnel with auto-lasthop disabled.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The BIG-IP system may incorrectly drop packets from a GRE point-to-point tunnel with auto-lasthop disabled.

Conditions:
The auto-lasthop of a GRE point-to-point tunnel is disabled.

Impact:
The decapsulated packets may be dropped in the BIG-IP system.

Fix:
The BIG-IP system correctly processes decapsulated packets from a GRE point-to-point tunnel.

698919-1 : Anti virus false positive detection on long XML uploads

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
A false positive virus-detected violation. The description of the violation explains that the ICAP server was not contacted.

Conditions:
-- A long XML upload or payload.
-- The assigned XML profile is configured to be inspected by the ICAP server.

Impact:
Violation is detected where no violation has occurred (false positive violation).

Workaround:
Increase the internal parameter max_raw_request_len to the required length of the XML.

Note: This workaround will affect the amount of logged data from ASM.

Fix:
Fixed a false positive virus-detected violation related to long XML uploads.

698916-3 : TMM crash with HTTP/2 under specific condition

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TMM may crash when upgrading an HTTP/1.1 connection to an HTTP/2 connnection.

Conditions:
-- HTTP/2 gateway enabled.
-- Pool member supports protocol switching.

Impact:
TMM crash, leading to a failover event.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than removing the HTTP/2 profile from the virtual server.

Fix:
TMM properly handles protocol upgrade requests from pool members when HTTP/2 is enabled, so no crash occurs.

698813-3 : When processing DNSX transfers ZoneRunner does not enforce best practices

Solution Article: K45435121

698379-3 : HTTP2 upload intermittently is aborted with HTTP2 error error_code=FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR(

Solution Article: K61238215

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Uploads for the HTTP2 virtual server fail intermittently with HTTP2 error error_code=FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR.

Conditions:
HTTP2 virtual server configured.

Impact:
Uploads for the HTTP2 virtual server might fail intermittently.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Uploads for the HTTP2 virtual server do not fail intermittently anymore.

698338-2 : Potential core in MRF occurs when pending egress messages are queued and an iRule error aborts the connection

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
The system may core.

Conditions:
-- Egress messages are queued waiting for MR_EGRESS event to be raised.
-- Current MR event exits with an error, thus aborting the connection.

Impact:
The system cores and will restart.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now returns pending messages back to the originator if the connection aborts due to an iRule error.

698080-1 : TMM may consume excessive resources when processing with PEM

Solution Article: K54562183

698000-1 : Connections may stop passing traffic after a route update

Solution Article: K04473510

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When a pool is used with a non-translating virtual server, routing updates may lead to an incorrect lookup of the nexthop for the connection.

Conditions:
-- Pool on a non-translating virtual server.
-- Routing update occurs.

Impact:
Connections may fail after routing updates. New connections will not be affected.

Workaround:
Use a route to direct traffic to the ultimate destination rather than using a pool to indicate the nexthop.

Fix:
Routing updates no longer interrupts traffic to connections using a pool member to reach the nexthop.

697878 : High crypto request completion time under some workload patterns

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The tmctl tmm/crypto table shows heavily loaded bulk crypto queues backed up into associated waiting queue. The crypto requests continue to complete, but are significantly delayed.

Conditions:
High crypto usage often in conjunction with high compression usage.

Impact:
Crypto requests can be delayed as long as 1.5 seconds.

Workaround:
Disable hardware crypto by setting the "crypto.hwacceleration" DB key to "disable":
tmsh modify sys db crypto.hwacceleration value disable

Fix:
Improve accelerated crypto poll-timing calculation.

697718-3 : Increase PEM HSL reporting buffer size to 4K.

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Before this fix, PEM HSL reporting buffer size is limited by 512 bytes.

Conditions:
If any PEM HSL flow reporting stream goes beyond 512 bytes, it will be truncated.

Impact:
Part of PEM HSL flow reporting information will be lost.

Fix:
We increase PEM HSL reporting buffer size to 4K, which should be enough for uses cases we currently know.

697303-3 : BD crash

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
BD crashes.

Conditions:
-- The internal parameter relax_unicode_in_json is set to 1.
-- Specific traffic scenario.

Impact:
BD crash, failover, and traffic disturbance.

Workaround:
Turn off the internal parameter relax_unicode_in_json.

Fix:
BD no longer crashes under these conditions.

696808-3 : Disabling a single pool member removes all GTM persistence records

Solution Article: K35353213

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
Disabling a single pool member removes all GTM persistence records.

Conditions:
1. WideIP with persistence enabled.
2. drain-persistent-requests no.
3. GTM pool member toggled from enabled to disabled.

Impact:
All GTM persistence records are accidently cleared.

Workaround:
Set drain-persistent-requests yes.

Fix:
When drain-persistent-requests is set to no, only the persistence records associated with the affected pool members are cleared when a resource is disabled.

696789-2 : PEM Diameter incomplete flow crashes when TCL resumed

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
If a PEM Diameter flow is not fully created, for example suspended by an iRule, and the irule is resumed because of timeout.

Conditions:
PEM Diameter flow not fully created, suspended by iRule, and the iRule is resumed by timeout.

Impact:
The tmm will restart and all flows will reset.

Fix:
The PEM diameter flow is now created in such a way to prevent any crash by iRule resumed by timeout.

696732 : tmm may crash in a compression provider

Solution Article: K54431534

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
TMM may crash with the following panic message in the log files:

panic: ../codec/compress/compress.c:1161: Assertion "context active" failed.

Conditions:
-- Running on the following platforms: BIG-IP i-series or VIPRION 4400 blades.
-- Virtual servers are performing compression.

Impact:
TMM crashes, Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Do not use compression, or use software compression instead of hardware compression. To configure for software compression, run the following command:

tmsh modify sys db compression.strategy value softwareonly

696468 : Active compression requests can become starved from too many queued requests.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
From the "tmctl compress" table: the cur_ctx value for QAT is equal or higher than 512, and the cur_active remains at zero.

CPU utilization per tmm in this condition may be quite high.

Conditions:
At least 512 contexts with no traffic wait in the compression queue and prevent new requests from getting compression service.

Impact:
Compression on a per-tmm basis can stop servicing new requests.

Workaround:
Switch to software compression.

Fix:
Soften the restriction so that accumulated contexts with no traffic cannot not prevent busy contexts from getting compression time.

696383-2 : PEM Diameter incomplete flow crashes when sweeped

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
If a PEM Diameter flow is not fully created, for example suspended by an iRule, the sweeper may encounter a tmm crash.

Conditions:
-- PEM Diameter flow not fully created.
-- The flow is suspended by an iRule.
-- There is a CMP state change (likely) or a manual cluster-mirror change (less likely) while the flow is suspended.

Impact:
The tmm restarts and all flows reset. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The PEM diameter flow is now created in such a way to prevent any crash by the sweeper.

696294-3 : TMM core may be seen when using Application reporting with flow filter in PEM

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
TMM core with flow filter when Application reporting action is enabled

Conditions:
If Application reporting is enabled along with flow filter

Impact:
TMM restart causing service interruption

Fix:
Initialize the application start buffer so as to prevent the TMM core

696265-3 : BD crash

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
BD crash.

Conditions:
ecard_max_http_req_uri_len is set to a value greater than 8 KB.

Impact:
Potential traffic disturbance and failover.

Workaround:
Change the value of ecard_max_http_req_uri_len to a size lower than 8 KB.

Fix:
Fixed a BD crash scenario.

696113-1 : Extra IPsec reference added per crypto operation overflows connflow refcount

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The size of the refcount field in connflow became smaller, making the length of some crypto queues in IPsec able to reach and exceed the maximum refcount value.

Conditions:
When a large data transfer under an IPsec SA creates a queue of crypto operations longer than the connflow's refcount can handle, the refcount can overflow.

Impact:
Unexpected tmm failover after refcount overflow.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
An object tracking crypto operations now adds a sole reference to the connflow as long as the count of crypto operation pending is nonzero.

696049-3 : High CPU load on generic message if multiple responses arrive while asynchronous Tcl command is running

Solution Article: K55660303

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
High CPU load on generic message if multiple responses arrive while asynchronous Tcl command is running.

Conditions:
Multiple response messages arrive on a connection while an asynchronous Tcl command is running on that connection.

Impact:
High CPU load might occur as multiple responses will be assigned the same request_sequence_number.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Request_sequence_numbers are not assigned to response messages until the Tcl event is executed for that message. This avoids assigning the same number to multiple events.

695968-3 : Memory leak in case of a PEM Diameter session going down due to remote end point connectivity issues.

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Memory leak resulting in a potential OOM scenario.

Conditions:
1. PEM configured with Gx
2. Flaky Diameter connection
3. Subscriber creation via PEM

Impact:
Potential loss of service.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Freed Diameter messages appropriately.

695901-2 : TMM may crash when processing ProxySSL data

Solution Article: K46940010

695117 : bigd cores and sends corrupted MCP messages with many FQDN nodes

Solution Article: K30081842

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When configured to monitor large numbers of nodes and/or pool members including FQDN nodes and/or pool members, the following symptoms may occur:
- bigd may core (aborted by sod due to missed heartbeat).
- bigd may produce corrupted MCP messages.
- FQDN nodes and/or pool members may remain in a Checking state indefinitely.

Conditions:
These symptoms may occur on affected versions of BIG-IP when a large number of nodes and/or pool members including FQDN nodes and/or pool members are configured. Depending on the capabilities of the platform in use, approximately one thousand (1,000) or more total nodes and/or pool members may be required to produce these symptoms.

FQDN nodes and/or pool members generate a more significant workload for the bigd daemon than nodes and/or pool members with statically-configured IP addresses. This additional load contributes to high CPU usage and the other observed symptoms.

Impact:
This issue produces the following impacts:
- bigd may core.
- nodes and/or pool members may remain in a Checking state indefinitely.
- bigd may produce corrupted MCP messages, which generate error messages in the LTM log of the following form:

... err mcpd[####]: 01070712:3: Caught configuration exception (0), Can't parse MCP message, ...

Examination of the corrupted MCP message shows objects at the point of corruption that have no hierarchical relationship with the objects referenced at the beginning of the message.

Workaround:
To work around this issue, use the following approaches singly or in combination:
1. Reduce the number of nodes and/or pool members configured for a given BIG-IP system.
2. Configure nodes and/or pool members with statically-configured IP addresses.

Fix:
bigd no longer produces corrupted MCP messages, resulting in nodes and/or pool members remaining in a 'checking' state, with up to 2,000 nodes and/or pool members including FQDN nodes and/or pool members configured. This issue is resolved by the FQDNv2 feature re-implementation in this version of the software.

694922-4 : ASM Auto-Sync Device Group Does Not Sync

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
In rare circumstances a device may enter an untrusted state and confuse the device group.

Conditions:
1) ASM sync is enabled on an autosync device group
2) A new ASM entity is created on a device

Impact:
ASM configuration is not correctly synchronized between devices

Workaround:
1) Remove ASM sync from the device group (Under Security ›› Options : Application Security : Synchronization : Application Security Synchronization)
2) Restart asm_config_server.pl on both devices and wait until they come back up
3) Change the device group to a manual sync group
4) On the device with the good configuration re-enable ASM sync for the device group
5) Make a spurious ASM change, and push the configuration.
6) Change the sync type back to automatic

Fix:
Devices no longer spuriously enter an untrusted state

694778-2 : Certain Intel Crypto HW fails to decrypt data if the given output buffer size differs from RSA private key size

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SSO-enabled Native RDP resources cannot be accessed via hardware (HW) BIG-IP systems with 'Intel Cave Creek' coprocessor (i.e., SSL connection cannot be established with the db variable 'crypto.hwacceleration' enabled, and RSA key used).

Conditions:
The failure might occur in the following scenario:
-- Running on Intel Cave Creek Engine (e.g., BIG-IP 2000 (C112) or 4000 (C113)).
-- Client OS is Mac, iOS, or Android.
-- HW crypto is enabled
-- Using a virtual server with a client SSL profile and 2048 bit RSA key on.
-- Native RDP resource with enabled SSO is used on hardware BIG-IP with 'Intel Cave Creek' coprocessor.
-- Output buffer size differs from RSA private key size.

Impact:
-- SSL connection fails.
-- RDP client cannot launch the requested resource (desktop/application).

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than to disable crypto HW acceleration with following command:
tmsh modify sys db crypto.hwacceleration value disable

Fix:
SSL connection can now be established as expected. SSO-enabled Native RDP resources now can now be accessed via hardware BIG-IP systems with 'Intel Cave Creek' coprocessor (e.g., BIG-IP 2000 (C112) or 4000 (C113) platforms) from Mac, iOS, and Android clients.

694740-1 : BIG-IP reboot during a TMM core results in an incomplete core dump

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
If an HSB lockup occurs on i10600 and i10800 platforms, then HSB panics and generates a core file for post-analysis. HSB also triggers a nic_failsafe reboot. On this platform, the reboot occurs before the core file is fully written, resulting in a truncated core.

Conditions:
An HSB lockup occurs, triggering a core dump and a nic_failsafe reboot.

Impact:
The reboot happens before the core dump completes, resulting in an incomplete core dump which is not useful for analyzing why the HSB lockup occurred. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
No workaround; does not hinder device operation, but does prevent post-crash analysis.

Fix:
Reboot is delayed until TMM core file is completed.

694717-3 : Potential memory leak and TMM crash due to a PEM iRule command resulting in a remote lookup.

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
TMM crashes

Conditions:
PEM iRule command that would result in an inter-TMM lookup on a long lived flow that would result in the PEM iRule command being hit several times. For example, a long lived flow with multiple HTTP transactions.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Fix:
Always release the connFlow reference associated with the TCL command to avoid a memory leak and potential crash.

694696-3 : On multiblade Viprion, creating a new traffic-group causes the device to go Offline

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
All devices in the failover device group will go offline, resulting in traffic disruption and possible failovers.

Conditions:
When a new traffic-group is created on a multiblade Viprion system that is a member of a sync-failover device group.

Impact:
Traffic to all other traffic-groups is disrupted for several seconds.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Creating a new traffic-group does not disrupt existing traffic-groups.

694319-3 : CCA without a request type AVP cannot be tracked in PEM.

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
May cause diagnostic issues as not all CCA messages cannot be tracked.

Conditions:
1. PEM with Gx/Gy configured
2. PCRF sends CCA's without a request type AVP

Impact:
May hamper effective diagnostics.

Workaround:
Mitigation:
Configure the PCRF to always include a request type in its CCAs.

Fix:
Add a statistics counter to track CCA's that do not request type AVPs.
Name of new counter:cca_unknown_type

694318-3 : PEM subscriber sessions will not be deleted if a CCA-t contains a DIAMETER_TOO_BUSY return code and no request type AVP.

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Subscriber sessions in PEM will be stuck in a "Marked for Delete" state.

Conditions:
1. PEM provisioned with Gx.
2. PCRF responds to a CCR-t with a DIAMETER_TOO_BUSY return code and no Request type AVP.

Impact:
Subscriber sessions stuck in delete pending resulting in a potential increase in memry consumption over a period of time.

Workaround:
Mitigation:
PCRF (remote Diameter end point) must send a CCA-t with a request type AVP in case a DIAMETER_TOO_BUSY return code is present.

Fix:
Handle the DIAMETER_TOO_BUSY return code on a CCA-t regardless of the request type AVP.

694274-2 : [RHSA-2017:3195-01] Important: httpd security update - EL6.7

Solution Article: K23565223

694073-1 : All signature update details are shown in 'View update history from previous BIG-IP versions' popup

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
If you are running a BIG-IP release named with 4 digits (e.g., 12.1.3.1), all signature update details are shown only in 'View update history from previous BIG-IP versions' popup. The 'Latest update details' section is missing.

Conditions:
Running a BIG-IP software release named with 4 digits (e.g., 12.1.3.1).

Impact:
Low and incorrect visibility of signature update details.

Workaround:
Signature update details can be viewed in 'View update history from previous BIG-IP versions' popup.

Fix:
Signature updates are now shown correctly for all versions.

693838 : Adaptive monitor feature does not mark pool member down when hard limit set on UDP monitors

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Member of pool is not marked down when response time exceeds hard limit.

Conditions:
Adaptive monitoring enabled for UDP monitor and server response time exceeds hard limit.

Impact:
Member remains in pool despite exceeding hard limit which may result in degraded services.

Workaround:
None.

693744-3 : High CPU Usage by the TMM Can Cause SOD to Kill vCMP Guests

Solution Article: K64721111

693739-3 : VPN cannot be established on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 if full tunneling configuration is enabled

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
For some Network Access configurations, VPN cannot establish a connection with client systems running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 using F5 Edge client or Browser helper apps.

Conditions:
The following conditions must be true:
-- The Network Access resource Traffic Options setting is configured for Force all Traffic Through Tunnel.
-- The Network Access resource Allow Local Subnet setting is disabled.
(Both of these options are defaults.)
-- Client running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1.

Impact:
The Edge Client unsuccessfully tries to connect, resulting in a loop. The client cannot establish VPN.

Workaround:
1. Navigate to the Network Access resource.
2. Set the Network Access resource Allow Local Subnet checkbox to Enabled.
3. Save the setting, and apply the Access Policy.

Fix:
Edge Client operation does not go into a reconnect loop and is able to establish and maintain connection successfully on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1.

693312-2 : vCMPd may crash when processing bridged network traffic

Solution Article: K03165684

693211-3 : CVE-2017-6168

Solution Article: K21905460

693106-2 : IKEv1 newest established phase-one SAs should be found first in a search

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Some IKEv1 implementations might delete "duplicate" phase one IKE SAs, even though not yet expired, keeping only the most recently negotiated IKE-SA. If this happens, and BIG-IP uses an older SA to negotiate, then phase two negotiation can fail.

If at all possible, we want BIG-IP to prefer the newest SA for a given remote peer. If a peer deletes a second SA without notifying BigIP, preferring a newest SA may mitigate the problem.

Conditions:
The situation seems mostly easily arranged when two peers initiate a new IKE-SA at the same time, so that both are negotiated concurrently, since neither has yet been established. Afterward, there are two IKE-SAs for one remote peer, nearly the same age.

If the other end deletes a duplicate without sending a DELETE message to BigIP, we might accidently use the older SA of a pair.

Impact:
If BIG-IP picks a mature IKE-SA for phase two negotiation that has been deleted by a peer, then BIG-IP's attempt to negotiate a new phase two SA will fail.

Workaround:
Try to configure other IPsec implementations to avoid deleting duplicate IKE-SAs.

Fix:
At the momenet a new IKE-SA is established, we now move that SA to the head of the hashmap bucket searched for that remote peer in the future. This makes us more likely to use the newest SA from the perspective of a remote peer, the next time we initiate another phase two negotiation ourselves.

693007-3 : Modify b.root-servers.net IPv4 address 192.228.79.201 to 199.9.14.201 according to InterNIC

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
The current IPv4 address for b.root-servers.net is 192.228.79.201. The IPv4 address for b.root-servers.net will be renumbered to 199.9.14.201, effective 2017-10-24. The older number will be invalid after that date.

Conditions:
Several profiles contain the b.root-servers.net IPv4 address as 192.228.79.201.

Impact:
The impact is likely minimal, at most a single timeout for pending TLD queries when they happen to round-robin onto an old IP address, probably not more often than the hint's TTL, which is more than a month, and even this should cause a timeout only when the old IP actually stops responding.

Workaround:
Update the root hints for all affected profiles manually except the hardwired ones.

Fix:
The IPv4 address for b.root-servers.net has been renumbered to 199.9.14.201, effective 2017-10-24.

Behavior Change:
The IPv4 address for b.root-servers.net has been renumbered to 199.9.14.201, effective 2017-10-24, according to InterNIC. The old IPv4 address (192.228.79.201) will continue to answer queries for at least 6 months.

692970-3 : Using UDP port 67 for purposes other than DHCP might cause TMM to crash

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
DHCP relay presumes that a flow found via lookup is always a server-side flow of type DHCP relay. Hence TMM can crash when DHCP relay makes a server connection if UDP port 67 is used for another purpose, in which case a wrong DHCP server flow could be selected.

Conditions:
A UDP port 67 is configured for a purpose other than DHCP relay.

Impact:
TMM restart causes traffic interruption or failover.

Workaround:
Do not use UDP port 67 for other virtual servers, or configure a drop listener on certain VLANs that cannot avoid using UDP port 67.

Fix:
TMM no longer crashes with DHCP flow validation.

692941-3 : GTMD and TMM SIGSEGV when changing wide IP pool in GTMD

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
Changing wide IP causes gtmd and tmm core under certain conditions.

Conditions:
-- GTM pool is removed when it is referenced by a persist record.
-- That record is accessed before it is purged.

Impact:
gtmd and tmm core. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Changing wide IP no longer causes gtmd and tmm core when GTM pool is removed when it is referenced by a persist record, and that record is accessed before it is purged.

692307-1 : User with 'operator' role may not be able to view some session variables

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
When a user with 'operator' role tries to view the session variables, the GUI may show the following error: An error has occurred while trying to process you request.

Conditions:
This occurs when there is a huge blob of data associated with the user whose session variable is being viewed. For example Active Directory (AD) user accounts with thumbnailphoto and userCertificate user attributes containing binary data.

Impact:
User cannot view the session variables for those particular sessions. This data is available, however, via clicking on the Session ID.

Workaround:
Find this data via clicking on the session ID.

Fix:
User with 'operator' role can now view all expected session variables

692179-3 : Potential high memory usage from errdefsd.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
errdefsd memory usage grows with each config-sync or config update.

Conditions:
Ever increasing errdefsd memory usage is visible when the following conditions are met:
-- Config updates are frequent.
-- management-port logging is not being used.

Impact:
In extreme cases, errdefsd memory usage might increase userland memory-pressure. Note, however, that it isn't actually using the extra memory, so while Virtual Memory Size (VSZ) might be high, Resident Set Size (RSS) need not be.

Workaround:
A workaround for this problem is to periodically send logs to a management-port destination. The destination may be as simple as a dummy UDP port on 127.0.0.1. Adding such a destination to the publisher for an existing, active log source will work. errdefsd just needs a reason to process and flush accumulating configurations.

Fix:
The changes in this bug force errdefsd to check for config changes once every second in addition to checking whenever management-port destination logs come in.

692158-2 : iCall and CLI script memory leak when saving configuration

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Whenever an iCall script or CLI script saves the configuration, the scriptd process on the device will leak memory.

Conditions:
Use of iCall or CLI scripts for saving config.

Impact:
Repeated invocation may cause the system to run out of memory causing tmm to restart disrupting traffic.

Workaround:
Do not save the configuration from iCall or CLI scripts.

692123-2 : GET parameter is grayed out if MobileSafe is not licensed

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
GET parameter is grayed out if MobileSafe is not licensed.

Conditions:
-- Provision FPS on a system whose license has at least one active feature.
-- Do not license MobileSafe.

Impact:
In FPS Parameter's list, the GET method is always grayed out.

Workaround:
Use either of the following workarounds:
-- License MobileSafe.
-- Use TMSH or REST.

Fix:
The GET method is not grayed out if MobileSafe is not licensed.

692095-3 : bigd logs monitor status unknown for FQDN Node/Pool Member

Solution Article: K65311501

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
While monitoring FQDN nodes or pool members, bigd may log the current or previous monitor status of the node or pool member as 'unknown' in messages where that state internally could have been logged as 'checking' or 'no address' for FQDN template nodes. Other states for FQDN configured nodes or pool members log monitor status as expected. Messages are similar to the following:

notice bigd[####]: 01060141:5: Node /Common/node_name monitor status unknown [ ip.address: unknown ] [ was up for ##hrs:##mins:##sec ]
notice bigd[####]: 01060141:5: Node /Common/node_name monitor status up [ ip.address: unknown ] [ was unknown for ##hrs:##mins:##sec ]
notice bigd[####]: 01060141:5: Node /Common/node_name monitor status up [ ip.address: up ] [ was unknown for ##hrs:##mins:##sec ]
notice bigd[####]: 01060145:5: Pool /Common/pool_name member /Common/node_name monitor status unknown. [ ] [ was unchecked for ##hrs:##mins:##sec ]
notice bigd[####]: 01060145:5: Pool /Common/pool_name member /Common/node_name monitor status up. [ ] [ was unknown for ##hrs:##mins:##sec ]

Conditions:
This may occur of the FQDN template node or pool member is in a 'checking' or 'no address' state.
The 'checking' state may occur if the DNS resolution of the FQDN node or pool member name is in progress.
The 'no address' state may occur if no IP addresses were returned by the DNS server for the configured FQDN node or pool member name.

Impact:
Unable to triage state of FQDN nodes or pool members identified in these log messages, to determine whether further troubleshooting is required, or what specific problem condition might require further investigation.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
An FQDN-configured node or pool member logs each internal monitor status, including for scenarios of 'checking' and 'no address' for FQDN template nodes which were previously logged as 'unknown'.

691897-1 : Names of the modified cookies do not appear in the event log

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
A modified domain cookies violation happened. When trying to see additional details by clicking the violation link, the name and value of the modified cookie is empty.

Conditions:
A modified domain cookies violation happens.

Note: This can happen only if there are also non-modified or staged cookies.

Impact:
Expected violation details are not displayed.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Issue with modified domain cookie violation details is now fixed.

691806-3 : RFC 793 - behavior receiving FIN/ACK in SYN-RECEIVED state

Solution Article: K61815412

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The BIG-IP system resets connection with RST if it receives FIN/ACK in SYN-RECEIVED state.

Conditions:
The BIG-IP system receives FIN/ACK when it is in SYN-RECEIVED state.

Impact:
The BIG-IP system resets connection with RST.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The BIG-IP system now responds with FIN/ACK to early FIN/ACK.

691670-3 : Rare BD crash in a specific scenario

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
BD crash or False reporting of signature ID 200023003.

Conditions:
JSON/XML/parameters traffic (should not happen with the enforce value signature).

Impact:
Failover, traffic disturbance in the core case. False positive violation or blocking in the other scenario.

Workaround:
Removing attack signature 200023003 from the security policy stops the issue.

Fix:
Fix a bug in the signatures engine that causes a false positive reporting of a signature. In some rare cases, this false reporting may cause a crash.

A newly released attack signature update changes the signature in a way that it no longer causes the issue to happen.

691504-3 : PEM content insertion in a compressed response may cause a crash.

Solution Article: K54562183

691498-1 : Connection failure during iRule DNS lookup can crash TMM

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
The TMM crashes in the DNS response cache periodic sweep.

Conditions:
The DNS resolver connection fails after a successful lookup response is cached. This has been reproduced with a failure due to a lost route. Other failures such as down ports do not cause a crash.

Impact:
The TMM cores and automatically restarts, Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
No known workaround.

Fix:
The reference counting of the resolver connection was fixed.

691477-1 : ASM standby unit showing future date and high version count for ASM Device Group

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Policy builder is changing configuration of standby unit.

Conditions:
The system state changes from active to standby (also when blade is changed from master to non-master).

Impact:
Unexpected changes are made to the policy on standby device (CID increment).

Workaround:
Restart pabnagd when switching device from active to standby (also when blade is changed from master no non-master):

killall -s SIGHUP pabnagd

Fix:
Policy builder now updates its state correctly and doesn't make changes to a policy on a standby device.

691287-3 : tmm crashes on iRule with GTM pool command

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
tmm crashes with a SIGSEGV when a GTM iRule executes a 'pool' command against Tcl variables that have internal string representations, which can occur when a value is a result of (some) string commands (e.g., 'string tolower') or if the value comes from a built-in iRules command (such as 'class').

For example:

when DNS_REQUEST {
pool [string tolower "Test.com"]
}

or:

when DNS_REQUEST {
pool [class lookup pool-dg key-value]
}

Conditions:
GTM iRule executes a 'pool' command against Tcl variables that have internal string representations.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while TMM restarts.

Workaround:
Pass the 'pool' argument through 'string trim'. For instance:

when DNS_REQUEST {
pool [string trim [class lookup pool-dg key-value]]
}

Fix:
tmm no longer crashes on GTM iRules that use the 'pool' command.

691017-1 : Preventing ng_export hangs

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Sometimes ng_export is stuck while reading tmsh thru the pipe because of buffer issues. Export is trying to read more data from tmsh while data is lost in the middle of the read operation.

Conditions:
-- ng_export receives tmsh replies through buffer of constant size x.
-- During the read operation, tmsh returns a buffer size of x minus k, where k is very small random number (less than 50).

Note: K is very small random number, which makes this issue difficult to describe.

Impact:
The export operation hangs.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
ng_export is now using non-blocking socket and loops to wait for data or terminate gracefully

690819-3 : Using an iRule module after a 'session lookup' may result in crash

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
'session lookup' does not clean up an internal structure after the call finishes. If another iRule module uses the values in this internal structure after a 'session lookup', it may result in a core or other undesired behavior.

Conditions:
Calling 'session lookup' in an iRule where a result is successfully retrieved, and then calling another module.

Impact:
The system may core, or result in undefined and/or undesired behavior.

Workaround:
Check the return value of 'session lookup' before using another iRule module.

If 'session lookup' says that the entry exists, call 'session lookup' again for a key that is known to not exist.

690166-3 : ZoneRunner create new stub zone when creating a SRV WIP with more subdomains

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
Creating SRV wideip will result in stub zone creation even there are already matching zones.

Conditions:
Creating SRV wideip with three more layers than existing zone.

Impact:
Unnecessary stub zones created.

690042-3 : Potential Tcl leak during iRule suspend operation

Solution Article: K43412307

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TMM's Tcl memory usage increases over time, and does not decrease. Memory leak of Tcl objects might cause TMM to core.

Conditions:
-- iRules are in use.
-- Some combination of nested proc calls and/or loops must go at least five levels deep.
-- Inside the nested calls, an iRule executes a suspend operation.

Impact:
Degraded performance. TMM out-of-memory crash. A failover or temporary outage might occur. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM no longer leaks memory.

689826-2 : Proxy/PAC file generated during VPN tunnel is not updated for Windows 10 (unicode languages like: Japanese/Korean/Chinese)

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
On a Microsoft Windows 10 system configured for a Unicode language (Japanese, Korean, or Chinese, for example) the client proxy autoconfig file is not assigned in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser after the VPN connection is established.

Conditions:
- Client proxy settings provided in Network Access settings, or client is configured with proxy prior to establishing VPN tunnel.
- Windows 10 configured for a unicode-language (Japanese/Korean/Chinese/etc.).
- VPN tunnel is established using either a browser or the Edge Client.

Impact:
Proxy settings are not applied on client side after VPN is established.

Workaround:
There are two possible workarounds:
Workaround A
============
-- Change the language to English from Control panel :: Region :: Administrative :: Language for non-Unicode programs :: Change System locale.

Workaround B
============
-- Add a variable assign agent in the access policy, after the logon item and before the resource is assigned. To do so, follow this procedure:

1. Set the custom variable name to the following value:
    config.connectivity_resource_network_access./Common/<network_access_resource_name>.client.ConnectionTrayIcon
    Note: <network access resource name> is the name of the network access resource.

2. Set the value to be of the type 'custom expression' and populate it with the following value (including the quotation marks):
    return "</ConnectionTrayIcon><connection_name_txt>F5VPN</connection_name_txt><ConnectionTrayIcon>"
    Note: The <connection_name_txt> tag contains the name of the adapter that the client will create.

3. After making these two changes, apply the access policy. The next time the VPN is established, a new virtual adapter entry will be created with the name provided in <connection_name_txt> tag.

Fix:
Previously, on a Windows 10 system configured for a Unicode language (for example, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese) the client proxy autoconfig file was not assigned with Internet Explorer after the VPN connection was established. This issue has been fixed.

689730-2 : Software installations from v13.1.0 might fail★

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Installation terminates with the following final log messages:

info: updating shared filesystem directories...
progress: 10/100
error: mkdir /mnt/tm_install/3543.JENFeQ/core failed - File exists
Terminal error: Failed to install.

Conditions:
-- BIG-IP Virtual Editions, or the following appliances:
   + i2600
   + i2800
   + i4600
   + i4800
   + i5600
   + i5800
   + i5820
   + i7600
   + i7800
   + i7820
   + i10600
   + i10800
   + i11600
   + i11800

-- Running BIG-IP software v13.1.0 or earlier.
-- Installing BIG-IP software with --instslot option.

Impact:
Installation of new software cannot proceed.

Workaround:
Remove the '/shared/core' symlink, the restart the installation.

Fix:
The installer now properly detects the symlink and proceeds without error.

689577-1 : ospf6d may crash when processing specific LSAs

Solution Article: K45800333

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When OSPFv3 is configured and another router in the network performs a graceful restart, ospf6d may crash.

Conditions:
-- OSPFv3 in use.
-- Graceful restart initiated by another system.

Impact:
OSPFv3 routing will interrupted while the daemon restarts and the protocol re-converges.

Workaround:
Disabling graceful restart on other network systems will prevent ospf6d from crashing on the BIG-IP system. However, it will cause a routing interruption on a system that restarts.

Fix:
The ospf6d daemon no longer crashes when a graceful restart occurs in the network.

689449-3 : Some flows may remain indefinitely in memory with spdy/http2 and http fallback-host configured

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
As a result of a known issue, in some circumstances the system may experience an unconstrained TMM memory growth when a virtual server is configured for spdy/http2 and http with fallback-host.

Conditions:
- VIP configured with spdy/http2 and http with fallback-host.

Impact:
TMM may eventually enter aggressive sweeper mode where this memory will be released. In the process it is possible that some legitimate connections will killed.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
BIG-IP no longer attempts to send a response with a configured fallback host in HTTP profile, when a connection is aborted by a client or due to an internal error. It prevents the internal flow to stay in memory after the connection has died.

689089-3 : VIPRION cluster IP reverted to 'default' (192.168.1.246) following unexpected reboot

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The cluster configuration file can be lost or corrupted, resulting in the out-of-band cluster management IP reverting to the default value.

Conditions:
Unexpected system restart while the configuration file is being updated may cause the file to become corrupted. If this occurs, the following error will be logged during blade startup:

"err clusterd[8171]: 013a0027:3: Chassis has N slots, config file has 0, ignoring config file"

Where "N" is the number of physical slots in the chassis (2, 4, or 8).

Impact:
Management IP reverts to 192.168.1.246, resulting in loss of access to the chassis through the out-of-band management network.

Workaround:
If this occurs, the management IP can be restored using TMSH or the UI through an in-band self IP, or with TMSH through the management console port.

Fix:
The configuration file update logic has been changed to prevent file corruption during update.

688942-3 : ICAP: Chunk parser performs poorly with very large chunk

Solution Article: K82601533

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
When an ICAP response contains a very large chunk (MB-GB), the BIG-IP system buffers the entire chunk and reevaluates the amount of data received as each new packet arrives.

Conditions:
ICAP server returns large payload entirely in a single chunk, or otherwise generates very large chunks (MB to GB range).

Impact:
The BIG-IP system uses memory to buffer the entire chunk. In extreme cases the parser can peg the CPU utilization at 100% as long as packets are arriving.

Workaround:
If possible, configure the ICAP server to chunk the response payload in mulitple normal sized chunks (up to a few tens of KB).

Fix:
When an ICAP response contains a very large chunk (MB-GB), the BIG-IP system streams content back to the HTTP client or server as it arrives, without undue memory use or performance impact.

688625-2 : PHP Vulnerability CVE-2017-11628

Solution Article: K75543432

688553-1 : SASP GWM monitor may not mark member UP as expected

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Pool members monitored by the SASP monitor may be incorrectly marked DOWN when they should be marked UP.

Conditions:
This may occur on affected BIG-IP versions when using the SASP monitor targeting a Load Balancing Advisor GWM (Global Workload Manager).

This is more likely to occur if pool members monitored by the SASP monitor are also monitored by an additional monitor which has marked the members DOWN, or if one or more pool members monitored by the SASP monitor have been manually marked down (state user-down via tmsh, or Disabled in the GUI).

This is not expected to occur with non-affected BIG-IP versions or when using the SASP monitor targeting a Lifeline GWM (Global Workload Manager).

Impact:
Traffic handled by pool members monitored by the SASP monitor may be disrupted.

Workaround:
Removing the SASP monitor from the pool or pool member configuration then re-adding the SASP monitor may reset the pool member status to the correct state.

688516-2 : vCMPd may crash when processing bridged network traffic

Solution Article: K03165684

688011-5 : Dig utility does not apply best practices

Solution Article: K02043709

688009-5 : Appliance Mode TMSH hardening

Solution Article: K46121888

687905 : OneConnect profile causes CMP redirected connections on the HA standby

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When virtual server uses OneConnect profile in HA setup, it can cause Clustered Multiprocessing (CMP) redirected connections and memory leak on high availability (HA) standby systems, including high memory usage on standby units.

Conditions:
-- Virtual server uses OneConnect profile in HA configuration.
-- Mirroring is enabled.
-- BIG-IP platform supports CMP.

Impact:
Redirected connections and memory leak on a standby device.

Workaround:
Remove OneConnect profile from the virtual server.

687759-2 : bd crash

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
A bd crash.

Conditions:
-- A config change follows a bd crash.
-- There is a policy that is misconfigured, for example, a form-data parsing is applied on a non-form-data payload (such as XML or JSON).

Impact:
bd crashes; system fails over; traffic disturbance occurs.

Workaround:
Set the following internal parameter to 0: max_converted_length_to_cache

687658-2 : Monitor operations in transaction will cause it to stay unchecked

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
If a monitored object is deleted and created or modified in the same transaction, and any of its monitor configuration is changed (either the monitor, or the state user-down), the monitor state will become unchecked.

Conditions:
This only happens within transactions.

Note: Using the command 'modify ltm pool <name> members replace-all-with' is considered a transaction containing a delete and create of pool members.

Impact:
Monitor state never returns to its correct value.

Workaround:
Do not do these operations in transactions. For pool members, use 'modify ltm pool <name> members modify' instead of replace-all-with.

687603-1 : tmsh query for dns records may cause tmm to crash

Solution Article: K36243347

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
tmm experiences segmentation fault.

Conditions:
Run 'tmsh show ltm dns cache records key cache <cache>' query when dns cache contains malformed records.

Impact:
Core file / system outage. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
tmm experiences segmentation fault when running the 'tmsh show ltm dns cache records key cache <cache>' query when dns cache contains malformed records.

687534-3 : If a Pool contains ".." in the name, it is impossible to add a Member to this pool using the GUI Local Traffic > Pools : Member List page

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
- Create a pool with name containing two dots (that is, the string '..')
- Go to the GUI Local Traffic :: Pools : Member List page and click the Add button to add a member.
- There is a No Access error preventing you from adding a member to the pool

Conditions:
This issue occurs when a pool name contains .. in the name.

Impact:
Cannot add a Member to the pool using the GUI.

Workaround:
Use tmsh to add pool members to an existing pool using a command similar to the following.
tmsh modify ltm pool <pool name> members add { <member info> }

Fix:
For pools with '..' in the name, it is now possible to add members after pool creation using the GUI Local Traffic :: Pools : Member List page.

687353-3 : Qkview truncates tmstat snapshot files

Solution Article: K35595105

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Qkview truncates the snapshot files it collects in /shared/tmstat/snapshots/.

Conditions:
Files are larger than 5 MiB, or the 'max file size' limit specified when running Qkview (the -s argument).

Note: 5 MiB is qkview utility's default maximum file size value.

Impact:
Snapshot data may not be collected in qkview. This may result in data being lost if the issue is only identified once important data has rotated out of history.

Workaround:
To specify no file size limit when collecting qkviews, use the following tmsh command:
qkview -s0

687205-3 : Delivery of HUDEVT_SENT messages at shutdown by SSL may cause tmm restart

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
During flow shutdown, SSL may deliver HUDEVT_SENT messages, causing additional messages to be queued by higher filters, which may result in a tmm crash and restart.

Conditions:
This happens in response to a relatively rare condition that occurs during shutdown, such as HUDEVT_SENT queued after HUDCTL_SHUTDOWN.

Impact:
Possible tmm restart. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

687193-1 : TMM may leak memory when processing SSL Forward Proxy traffic

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, TMM may leak memory when processing SSL Forward Proxy traffic.

Conditions:
SSL forward proxy enabled.

Impact:
Increasing memory consumption over time, potentially leading to a TMM crash and failover event.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM no longer leaks memory when processing SSL Forward Proxy traffic

687128-3 : gtm::host iRule validation for ipv4 and ipv6 addresses

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
gtm::host iRule isn't validating that the host given matches the type of WideIP it is attached to.

Conditions:
An AAAA-type wideip with a ipv4 gtm::host iRule, or A-type wideip with an ipv6 gtm::host iRUle.

Impact:
Incorrect host information was being returned.

Workaround:
Only attach gtm::host of IPv4 type to A-type WideIPs, and gtm::host rules of IPv6 to AAAA-type WideIPs.

Fix:
FIxed issue allowing incorrect gtm::host iRule commands to trigger on incorrect wideip types.

687098 : IPv6 RADIUS servers not supported for remote authentication

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Authenticating against an IPv6 RADIUS server is not supported, only an IPv4 server.

Conditions:
This applies to remote authentication to log on to the BIG-IP system for management purposes.

Impact:
Logon operation will time out, as if the server did not respond.

Workaround:
Use an IPv4 server. If you have an IPv6 management IP, then you will need to have the IPv4 server reachable over a dataplane VLAN.

Fix:
Support for IPv6 RADIUS servers has been added.

686972-1 : The change of APM log settings will reset the SSL session cache.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
If you change the configuration of APM log settings, it might cause the SSL session cache to be reset. Also, subsequent resumption of SSL sessions may fail after such change causing a situation where full ssl handshakes may occur more frequently.

Conditions:
-- Change the configuration of APM log settings.
-- SSL session cache is not empty.

Impact:
The change of APM log settings resets the SSL session cache, which causes the SSL session to initiate full-handshake instead of abbreviated re-negotiation.

Workaround:
Follow this procedure:
1. Change access policy.
2. The status of that access policy changes to 'Apply Access Policy'.
3. Re-apply that.

Fix:
The change of APM log settings now limits its effect on APM module instead of affecting other (SSL) module's data.

686926-3 : IPsec: responder N(cookie) in SA_INIT response handled incorrectly

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
IKEv2 negotiation fails when a responder uses N(cookie) in the SA_INIT response, because the BIG-IP system does not expect a second response with the same zero message_id always used by SA_INIT.

Conditions:
Any time a responder sends N(cookie) in the first response to SA_INIT from a BIG-IP initiator.

Impact:
The SA negotiation fails when a responder includes N(cookie) in a SA_INIT response, because a second response appears to have an out-of-order message ID when BIG-IP believe the first message_id of zero was already handled earlier.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The BIG-IP system now correctly tracks a need to receive a SECOND response with message_id zero, to finish the SA_INIT exchange, whenever the first SA_INIT response caused the BIG-IP system to resend the first request with the cookie included.

686765-1 : Database cleaning failure may allow MySQL space to fill the disk entirely

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Database cleaning failure may allow MySQL space to fill the disk entirely, which prevents any modification of ASM policy configuration.

In /var/log/ts/asm_config_server.log you might see these errors repeatedly:

Jun 9 09:38:45 10gal-f5-5000-2 crit g_server_rpc_handler.pl[16654]: 01310027:2: ASM subsystem error (asm_config_server.pl,F5::ASMConfig::Handler::handle_error): Code: 999, Error message = DBD::mysql::db do failed: The table 'NEGSIG_SIGNATURES' is full

Conditions:
This occurs if database cleaning failures occur.

Impact:
Disk will fill up, and you will be unable to modify ASM policies.

686685-1 : LTM Policy internal compilation error

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
To enable maximum performance, LTM Policies undergo a compilation process, where they are transformed to a compact binary representation. An issue was discovered where the transformation is being done incorrectly under certain circumstances.

Conditions:
While not common, certain LTM Policy combinations will be transformed to binary representation where certain internal parameters are incorrect.

Impact:
The tmm process may experience an unexpected restart, or a policy action may not run as expected.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
LTM Policies are correctly transformed to their high-performance, compact binary representations.

686631-1 : Deselect a compression provider at the end of a job and reselect a provider for a new job

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The system might potentially retain a compression context, even though there is no data to be compressed or decompressed. This can affect the calculation of the load of the compression provider.

Conditions:
-- A connection is up.
-- Compression context is active.
-- There is no data for the compression provider.

Impact:
It affects the compression provider selection.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now deselects a provider at the end of a compression/decompression operation, and reselects a provider at the beginning of another compression/decompression operation.

686395 : With DTLS version1, when client hello uses version1.2, handshake shall proceed

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
With DTLS version1, when client hello uses version1.2, handshake fails with error of :unsupported version".

Conditions:
DTLS version1 handshake:
Handshake version 1.0 . (0xfeff)
Client hello version 1.2(0xfefd)

Impact:
DTLS functionalities.

Workaround:
N/A

Fix:
In this case, we shall still proceed to perform handshake instead of bailing out with "unsupported version" error.

686389-3 : APM does not honor per-farm HTML5 client disabling at the View Connection Server

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Current logic for determining whether to offer HTML5 client option works for Horizon 6.x (and earlier) but it does not work for Horizon 7.x.

With Horizon 7.x, VMware has enhanced the XML so that each resource includes a flag to indicate whether HTML5 client is enabled (absence of <html-access-disabled/> tag). APM does not honor this flag to show HTML5 client option to APM end user only if it has been enabled for that resource.

Conditions:
-- APM webtop with a VMware View resource assigned.
-- HTML5 Access disabled for some of the RDS farms managed by the broker.

Impact:
APM offers HTML5 client launch option and actually runs it if requested, although it is disabled at the backend.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
For Horizon 7.x, the system now honors the <html5-access-disabled> flag in broker responses to disable HTML5 client for those RDS desktops and apps that have this flag set.

Behavior Change:
Before this fix, all the RDS desktops and apps were available for HTML5 client if it was installed on VCS.
Now, for those desktops and apps where HTML5 access has been deliberately disabled at the broker, only the native client option will be available.

686307-1 : Monitor Escaping is not changed when upgrading from 11.6.x to 12.x and later

Solution Article: K10665315

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When upgrading, monitor attributes such as receive string and send string might contain escape sequences that must be processed after the upgrade. However, due to a problem introduced by the LTM policy upgrade script, this processing is not performed, resulting in monitors not functioning correctly after the upgrade.

Note: Without LTM policies in the configuration, monitors upgrade without problem.

Conditions:
-- Upgrading and rolling forward monitor configuration data.
-- LTM policy data present.

Impact:
Monitors may not work after upgrade.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
This release addresses the underlying problem so the issue no longer occurs.

686305-2 : TMM may crash while processing SSL forward proxy traffic

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, TMM may crash while processing SSL forward proxy traffic

Conditions:
SSL forward proxy enabled

Impact:
TMM crash leading to a failover event

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM now correctly processes SSL forward proxy traffic

686282-1 : APMD intermittently crash when processing access policies

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
APMD process may crash intermittently (rare) when processing access policies.

Conditions:
This rarely encountered issue occurs when any one of the following conditions exist:

-- iRule is configured with 'ACCESS::policy evaluate'.
-- NTLM authentication configured and ECA plugin is involved (for example VDI RDG).
-- Kerberos authentication is configured with RBA enabled.

Impact:
APM end users cannot pass access policy, cannot login.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
APMD no longer intermittently crashes when processing access policies.

686228-3 : TMM may crash in some circumstances with VLAN failsafe

Solution Article: K23243525

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TMM may crash when managing traffic in response to the VLAN failsafe traffic generating mechanisms

Conditions:
- VLAN failsafe is configured with low timers.
- VLAN failsafe is triggered and multiple responses are received for traffic generating in fast succession.

Impact:
A TMM may core file may be produced. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Relax the timer to the default VLAN failsafe timer setting.

Fix:
TMM no longer crashes in some circumstances with VLAN failsafe.

686065-1 : RESOLV::lookup iRule command can trigger crash with slow resolver

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
If thousands of connections are serviced by an iRule that performs a lookup for the same FQDN before the FQDN can be resolved, tmm may crash.

Conditions:
iRule with RESOLV::lookup.
Slow DNS resolver.
Thousand of connections triggering resolution of the same name.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Remove RESOLV::lookup from the workflow if it is not required.

Fix:
The scenario now works as expected and no longer results in a crash.

686029-1 : A VLAN delete can result in unrelated VLAN FDB entries being flushed on shared VLAN member interfaces

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
FDB flushing on VLAN deletes is performed by VLAN member interface reference only, without regard to VLAN tags. This can result in unrelated VLAN FDB entries also being flushed on shared VLAN member interfaces.

Conditions:
Issuing a VLAN delete with other VLANs using shared tagged member interfaces with the VLAN being deleted.

Impact:
FDB entries for unrelated VLANs will be flushed if they share the same tagged VLAN member interfaces as the VLAN being deleted.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Correct FDB flushing on VLAN deletes, by limiting the scope to be VLAN specific.

685955 : TMM hud_message_ctx leak

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
There is a TMM memory issue caused by leaked hud_message_ctx objects, each holding a websockets_frame.

Conditions:
Running WebSocket traffic that needs to be processed by a plugin like ASM.

Impact:
Increasing TMM memory usage leading to eventual service outage. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The memory leak in TMM has been fixed.

685743-3 : When changing internal parameter 'request_buffer_size' in large request violations might not be reported

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
When the internal 'request_buffer_size' is set to a large value, long requests might be blocked, and no violation is reported.

Conditions:
-- Internal parameter 'request_buffer_size' is set to a large value (~50 KB or larger).
-- Request is long (~50 KB or longer).
-- Violations found.

Impact:
Requests might be blocked, and no reason is reported.

Workaround:
Reset internal 'request_buffer_size' to default.

Fix:
The system now handles the case in which the internal 'request_buffer_size' is set to a large value, so long requests are no longer blocked, and the violation is reported.

685708-3 : Routing via iRule to a host without providing a transport from a transport-config created connection cores

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
Using MR::message route command without specifying a transport to use (virtual or config) will core if the connection receiving the request was created using a transport-config.

Conditions:
Using MR::message route command without specifying a transport to use (virtual or config) will core if the connection receiving the request was created using a transport-config.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Specify a transport to use for creating a new outgoing connection in the MR::message route command.

Fix:
The system will no longer core.

685693 : APM AppTunnels memory leak

Component: Wan Optimization Manager

Symptoms:
Using APM AppTunnels causes a slow memory leak.

Conditions:
Use of APM AppTunnels.

Impact:
The slow memory leak exhaust tmm memory over time. Traffic disrupted when tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The memory leak has been corrected.

685615-5 : Incorrect source mac for TCP Reset with vlangroup for host traffic

Solution Article: K24447043

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
BIG-IP outbound host TCP RST packets have incorrect source-mac-address.

Conditions:
BIG-IP host traffic is exiting via VLANs in a VLAN group.

Impact:
TCP Reset for traffic exiting the BIG-IP system with incorrect source-mac-address, which could include monitor traffic.

Workaround:
Use transparent mode on the VLAN group.

Fix:
source-mac-address for host traffic is correctly set.

685475-3 : Unexpected error when applying hotfix

Solution Article: K93145012

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Software 'install hotfix' commands fail with a message similar to the following: Image (BIGIP-11.6.1.0.0.317.iso) has a software image entry in MCP database but does not exist on the filesystem.

Conditions:
Before installing the hotfix, the necessary full (base) software image prerequisite was added to the images directory, but then was removed before issuing the hotfix command.

For example, to apply 'Hotfix-BIGIP-11.6.1.2.0.338-HF2.iso', the system must have access to the base image; 'BIGIP-11.6.1.0.0.317.iso'.

Impact:
Cannot apply hotfix until the full base image is present.

Workaround:
Perform the following procedure:
1. Copy the base image to the images directory on the BIG-IP system.
2. Restart the 'lind' daemon.
3. Try the hotfix installation process again.

Fix:
Issuing a 'install hotfix' command when the base image is not available sends the system into a 'wait' state. The process status is 'waiting for base image', which should make clear what needs to be done. When the base image becomes available (in the images directory), the hotfix installation proceeds.

685467-2 : Certain header manipulations in HTTP profile may result in losing connection.

Solution Article: K12933087

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
HTTP profile has an option 'Insert X-Forwarded-For' which adds a header when a request is forwarding to a pool member. When a virtual server has iRule with a collect command like SSL::collect, it is affected by the HTTP profile processing. Same issue has an option 'Request Header Erase' available in HTTP profile.

Conditions:
A virtual server meets the following conditions:
-- ClientSSL profile.
-- HTTP profile with option 'Insert X-Forwarded-For' enabled and/or configured option 'Request Header Erase'.
-- iRule that has an 'SSL::collect' command in at least two events (e.g., CLIENTSSL_HANDSHAKE and CLIENTSSL_DATA).

Impact:
TCP connection is reset, and no response is provided to a client.

Workaround:
Use iRule to insert X-Forwarded-For with an appropriate IP address and/or remove headers configured in 'Request Header Erase' option of HTTP profile.

Fix:
An issue of a resetting connections due to configuration options 'Insert X-Forwarded-For' and 'Request Header Erase' in HTTP profile no longer happens.

685344-2 : Monitor 'min 1 of' not working as expected with FQDN nodes/members

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A pool with a monitor configured as 'min 1 of {...}' may be unavailable when one or more members configured with FQDN are down, rather than remain available as long as at least one pool member remains up.

Conditions:
-- Pool nodes/members are configured with FQDN.
-- At least one associated monitor is defined with the 'min 1 of {...}' feature.

Impact:
The pool may be seen as 'offline' when one or more members are down, rather than remaining available as long as a single pool member is 'UP'.

Workaround:
To configure a pool with 'min 1 of{...}', specify static pool members, do not use FQDN to configure pool members.

Fix:
A pool with FQDN configured nodes/members and specified with a monitor of 'min 1 of {...}' remains available as long as a single pool member remains up.
This issue is resolved by the FQDNv2 feature re-implementation.

685254-1 : RAM Cache Exceeding Watchdog Timeout in Header Field Search

Solution Article: K14013100

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SOD halts TMM while RAM cache is processing a header.

Conditions:
When RAM cache is attempting to match an ETag and fails to find it in the header field.

Impact:
The search continues until a match is found in memory, or a NUL byte is encountered. If the search takes too long, sod kills RAM cache on a watchdog timeout violation.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
SOD no longer halts TMM while RAM cache is processing a header.

685207-2 : DoS client side challenge does not encode the Referer header.

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
XSS reflection when DoS client side is enabled as a mitigation, or a proactive bot defense is enabled.

Conditions:
1. Login to the client IP address and send the ab request.
2. Once the DoS attack starts, sends the curl request
hl=en&q=drpdrp'-alert(1)-'drpdrp".
3. Unencoded Referer header is visible.

Impact:
The XSS reflection occurs after triggering the DoS attack.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
DoS client side challenge now encodes the Referer header.

685110-3 : With a non-LTM license (ASM, APM, etc.), ephemeral nodes will not be created for FQDN nodes/pool members.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
1. FQDN Node/pools fails to populate with members.

2. An error similar to the following is logged in /var/log/ltm when an FQDN node or pool member is created:

err mcpd[####]: 01070356:3: Ratio load balancing feature not licensed.

Conditions:
1. License a BIG-IP system with non-LTM license lacking the ltm_lb_ratio feature.
Such licenses include APM and/or ASM licenses for certain newer platforms which do not support the AAM module.
Affected platforms include certain iSeries and Virtual Edition (VE) releases.
2. Configure an FQDN node/pool member. Do not specify a 'ratio' value.

Impact:
Unable to use FDQN nodes/pool members with non-LTM license.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Non-LTM license (ASM, APM, etc.), ephemeral nodes are now created for FQDN nodes/pool members.

685020-1 : Enhancement to SessionDB provides timeout

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
In some cases, calls made to SessionDB never return from the remote TMM.

Conditions:
-- Using add, update, delete, and lookup commands to remote TMM.
-- SessionDB request is not returned.

Impact:
Calls made to SessionDB never return from the remote TMM.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system initiates a timeout after 2 seconds. If a timeout occurs, the calling command receives a result of err==ERR_TIMEOUT.

A new sys db variable was added to enable the timeout for the iRule table command. It defaults to false. Below is the new definition followed by the tmsh command to set the value.

# Enable or disable iRule table cmd timeout override to cause all
# requests to be 'remembered' so that we do not leak them
# if subsystems fail.
[Tmm.SessionDB.table_cmd_timeout_override]
default=false
type=enum
realm=common
enum=|true|false|

Behavior Change:
A new sys db variable was added to enable the timeout for the iRule table command. It defaults to false. Below is the new definition followed by the tmsh command to set the value.

# Enable or disable iRule table cmd timeout override to cause all
# requests to be 'remembered' so that we do not leak them
# if subsystems fail.
[Tmm.SessionDB.table_cmd_timeout_override]
default=false
type=enum
realm=common
enum=|true|false|

684937-6 : [KERBEROS SSO] Performance of LRU cache for Kerberos tickets drops gradually with the number of users

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
APM performance of handling HTTP request drops gradually when Kerberos SSO is being used over period of time.
Websso process CPU usage is very high during this time. The latency can vary between APM end users.

Conditions:
-- A large number of APM end users have logged on and are using Kerberos SSO.
-- Running APM.

Impact:
Increased latency of HTTP request processing.

Workaround:
Reduce the number of cached Kerberos user tickets by lowering the cache lifetime.

Fix:
LRU cache performance no longer drops linearly with the number of caches Kerberos tickets, the latency of HTTP request processing has been significantly improved.

684879-2 : Malformed TLS1.2 records may result in TMM segmentation fault.

Solution Article: K02714910

684414-1 : Retrieving too many groups is causing out of memory errors in TMUI and VPE

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Retrieving too many groups might cause out-of-memory errors in TMUI and VPE. TMUI might end up with HTTP 502 and VPE fails with HTTP 500

Conditions:
LDAP/AD server with over 20,000 groups.

Impact:
It's hard to perform LDAP/AD group mapping because there are no group names in the dialog box, which complicates work on such a large number of groups.

Workaround:
The only solution is to remove /shared/tmp/gmcache folder and use manual groupmapping.

Fix:
Retrieving too many groups no longer results in memory errors in TMUI and VPE, even on LDAP/AD servers with over 20,000 groups.

684391-1 : Existing IPsec tunnels reload. tmipsecd creates a core file.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Existing IPsec tunnels reload. tmipsecd creates a core file.

Conditions:
Although an exact replication of the issue has not been reliable, the one instance occurred after the following conditions:
-- Remote peer repeatedly tries to establish a tunnel.
-- The IPsec IKEv1 daemon 'racoon' is dead.

Impact:
Existing IPsec tunnels reload when tmipsecd aborts. tmipsecd creates a core file.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Exception handling in tmipsecd has been improved so that tmipsecd will not reload when encountering some unusual conditions.

684333-3 : PEM session created by Gx may get deleted across HA multiple switchover with CLI command

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
PEM sessions may get cleaned up with terminate cause of FATAL GRACE TIMEOUT, if multiple high availability (HA) failover is being performed using the following command: tmsh run sys failover standby.

Conditions:
Multiple HA failover performed using the following command: tmsh run sys failover standby.

Impact:
PEM session created using Gx may get deleted.

Workaround:
Initiate failover using alternate commands, such as the following:
tmm big start restart.

684325-3 : APMD Memory leak when applying a specific access profile

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Access profile having CheckMachineCert agent, while updating profile using 'Apply access policy', each time it leaks 12096 bytes of memory.

Conditions:
-- Access profile configured with agent 'CheckMachineCert'.
-- Repeatedly update the profile using 'Apply access policy'.

Impact:
APMD process stops after repeated application of the script.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
APMD no longer leaks memory when applying Access profile configured with agent 'CheckMachineCert'.

684312-2 : During Apply Policy action, bd agent crashes, causing the machine to go Offline

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
During Apply Policy action, bd agent crashes, causing with this error:
--------------------
crit perl[21745]: 01310027:2: ASM subsystem error (bd_agent,): bd_agent exiting, error:[Bit::Vector::new_Dec(): input string syntax error at /usr/local/share/perl5/F5/CfgConvert.pm line 66, <$inf> line 1. ]
--------------------

Causing bd and bd_agent processes restart, and causing the machine to go Offline.

Conditions:
-- ASM provisioned.
-- Applying policy.
-- Corrupted data was attempted to be loaded during an Apply Policy action.

Impact:
bd and bd_agent processes restart, causing the machine to go Offline while the processes restart..

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
During Apply Policy action, bd agent no longer crashes when attempting to load corrupted data.

684033-1 : CVE-2017-9798 : Apache Vulnerability (OptionsBleed)

Solution Article: K70084351

683697-3 : SASP monitor may use the same UID for multiple HA device group members

Solution Article: K00647240

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under rare timing conditions, the SASP monitor running on one member of an HA group (failover device group) may use the same LB UID as another member of the device group.

The LB UID used to connect to the Server/Application State Protocol (SASP) Group Workload Manager (GWM) is required to be unique for each client connecting to the GWM.

As a result, only the first HA group member using the duplicated UID is able to successfully use the SASP monitor.

The SASP monitor instance running on the HA group member using the duplicated UID will fail to connect to the SASP GWM.

Conditions:
This occurs under rare timing conditions when using the SASP monitor on a BIG-IP system that belongs to an HA group.

It is possible that the necessary timing conditions may occur if the external SASP monitor daemon is forcibly restarted (such as for troubleshooting purposes).

Impact:
The SASP monitor is unable to monitor pool member availability on all members of the HA group.

Workaround:
Forcing the mcpd process to reload the configuration (as described in article K13030: Forcing the mcpd process to reload the BIG-IP configuration (https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13030) allows recovery from this condition.

It is possible that less-intrusive measures such as restarting the external SASP monitor daemon (such as by sending a SIGTERM to the SASPD_monitor process) may also allow recovery. Due to the rare occurrence of this symptom, this solution has not been confirmed.

Fix:
The SASP monitor reliably uses a unique UID across HA group members, allowing all HA group members to successfully connect to the SASP GWM.

683683-1 : ASN1::encode returns wrong binary data

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
ASN1::encode returns incorrect data for certain integer values. For example, for integer 49280, ASN1::encode returns 02030000.

Conditions:
The problem happens in an implicit UTF encoding/decoding, and it is not obvious what data triggers the error.

This is because it implicitly converts the Tcl object type from byte array to string and later back to byte array, but because of the UTF de-coding algorithm, certain bytes get changed.

Impact:
The returned binary is wrong.

Workaround:
Use binary scan for the value that is incorrectly encoded by the command.

Fix:
ASN1::encode ENCODE mode now works so that it avoids the implicit type-conversion byte array to string back to byte array, which gets the original byte array changed during UTF-8 decoding.

683631-1 : TMM crashes during stress test

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
During stress/load testing, with a large number of connections which triggers flow sweeping, TMM restarts.

Conditions:
A large number of connections are seen, which triggers an expansion of the connflow hash table at the same time the connflow sweeper is active.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Connflow removal from the internal hash table is deferred until the entire bucket is processed.

683508-3 : WebSockets: umu memory leak of binary frames when remote logger is configured

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
ASM out of memory error messages in /var/log/asm.

Conditions:
-- Virtual server configured with WebSocket profile.
-- ASM remote logger configured and assigned to the virtual server.

Impact:
ASM out of memory, memory leak.

Workaround:
Remove ASM remote logging profile from a virtual server.

Fix:
This release correctly releases unused memory after WebSocket message is sent to the logging destination.

683389-1 : Error #2134 when attempting to create local flash.net::SharedObject in rewritten ActionScript 3 file

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Flash ActionScript3 application shows Error #2134 when trying to call flash.net::SharedObject.getLocal with localPath specified.

Conditions:
Attempt to create local SharedObject.

Impact:
Affected Flash applications are not working when accessed through Portal Access.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Addressed an issue in Portal Access which caused rewritten Flash files to show Error #2134 on attempt to create local SharedObject.

683241-3 : Improve CSRF token handling

Solution Article: K70517410

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, CSRF token handling does not follow current best practices.

Conditions:
CSRF is configured.

Impact:
CSRF token handling does not follow current best practices.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
CSRF token handling now follows current best practices.

683113-6 : [KERBEROS SSO][KRB5] The performance of memory type Kerberos ticket cache in krb5 library drops gradually with the number of users

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
APM performance of handling HTTP request drops gradually when Kerberos SSO is being used over a period of time.

Websso CPU usage is very high.

The BIG-IP system response can rate drop to the point that the clients disconnect after waiting for a response. The system logs error messages similar to the following: Failure occurred when processing the work item.

Conditions:
-- Running APM.
-- A large number of APM end users (~20 KB) have logged on and are using Kerberos SSO.

Impact:
Increased latency of HTTP request processing.

Workaround:
Reduce the number of cached Kerberos user tickets by lowering the cache lifetime.

Fix:
Improvements to the krb5 library have been implemented for better scalability, so the latency of HTTP request processing has been significantly improved.

682837 : Compression watchdog period too brief.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Compression TPS can be reduced on certain platforms when sustained, very high compression request traffic is present.

Conditions:
Very high sustained system-wide compression request traffic.

Impact:
Accelerated compression throughput can drop significantly; some flows dropped.

Workaround:
Switch to software compression.

Fix:
Compression request monitor tuned to account for systems with smaller bandwidth.

682682-3 : tmm asserts on a virtual server-to-virtual server connection

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
tmm might crash when using a virtual server-to-virtual server connection, and that connection has a TCP profile with keepalive configured.

Conditions:
-- L7 virtual server-to-virtual server connection (Virtual command, cpm rule, etc.).
-- TCP profile with keepalive configured.
-- (Deflate profile.)
-- At the beginning of the connection, there is a stall for longer than the specified keepalive timer interval.
-- The received response decompresses to a size that is greater than the advertised window size on the first virtual server's TCP stack.

Impact:
Shortly after the keepalive packet is received, which then is decompressed, the assert is triggered, and tmm restarts. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Remove keepalive from the TCP profiles of the two virtual servers involved.

Fix:
The system now honors the current receive window size when sending keepalives, so the tmm crash no longer occurs.

682612 : Event Correlation is disabled on vCMP even though all the prerequisites are met.

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
In GUI screen,

Security ›› Event Logs : Application : Event Correlation

It shows "Event Correlation is not supported on this platform.".

Conditions:
Multi bladed vCMP guest, running on a BIG-IP with SSD drives, having only one available Slot (other Slots appear offline/unavailable).

Impact:
Multi bladed vCMP guest, running on a BIG-IP with SSD drives, having only one available Slot have Event Correlation disabled.

Workaround:
The following workaround does not survive ASM restart.
Thus, it has to be executed after every restart of ASM:
------------------------
# perl -MF5::ASMReady -MF5::Cfg -e 'while (! F5::ASMReady::is_asm_ready()) { print "Waiting for ASM to be ready.\n"; sleep 5; }; print "ASM is ready, patching Event Correlation cfg file\n"; F5::Cfg::cfg_set_config_item(qw{/etc/ts/correlation/correlation.cfg}, qw{General}, qw{Idle}, 0)'

# pkill -f correlation
------------------------

Event Correlation should start with in ~15 seconds, after the execution of this workaround:
------------------------
# ps -elf | grep correlation

0 S root ... /usr/share/ts/bin/correlation
------------------------

682500-1 : VDI Profile and Storefront Portal Access resource do not work together

Solution Article: K03903649

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Accessing a Citrix Storefront portal access resource and clicking on the application does not work since VDI returns HTTP status 404.

Conditions:
-- VDI profile is attached to the Virtual server.
-- Access policy has Citrix Storefront portal access resource.
-- Citrix remote-desktop resource is attached.

Impact:
Citrix Storefront portal access resource cannot be used to launch applications.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Citrix Storefront portal access resources can now be used with Citrix Remote desktop resources.

682335-3 : TMM can establish multiple connections to the same gtmd

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
TMM can establish multiple connections to the same gtmd, and tmm may core.

Conditions:
This timing-related issue involves coordination between license blob arrival, gtmd connection teardown/establishment, and gtmd restart.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Fixed, if there is an existing connflow, don't start another connection.

682213-3 : TLS v1.2 support in IP reputation daemon

Solution Article: K31623549

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The IP reputation daemon opens SSL connections to the Webroot BrightCloud server using TLS 1.0 protocol.

Conditions:
This occurs when using IP reputation.

Impact:
Because IP reputation services are used to accept/deny connections to critical business applications, there might be concerns about the service. Also some configurations might require that all transactions exfiltrating a PCI-controlled environment leverage secure protocols and ciphers, which won't be the case for IP reputation services.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Webroot updated BrightCloud servers to support TLS 1.2. This is additional support. To preserve backward compatiblity, the servers support TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2, SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0.

In addition, this software version supports TLS 1.2 on the client side by customizing the SDK used by the IP reputation daemon.

682105 : Adding widget in Analytics Overview can cause measures list to empty out on Page change

Component: Application Visibility and Reporting

Symptoms:
When adding a new widget on Analytics Overview page with multiple modules (e.g., vCMP, Security), it is possible to reach a state in which the list of available measures is empty.

Conditions:
-- All 'available measurements' is selected (moved left).
-- A page should be changed.

Impact:
In some cases (like in vCMP when changing from Network to SynCookies), the list of available measurements will remain empty. Unable to select measures to display in new widget.

Workaround:
To reset the list of measures so that all measures are visible again, switch to another page and return to the previous one right away.

682104-1 : HTTP PSM leaks memory when looking up evasion descriptions

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
http_psm_description_lookup leaks xfrags containing PSM evasion descriptions.

Conditions:
When PSM looks up evasion descriptions.

Impact:
Memory leaked each time might eventually cause out of memory to the TMM.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
This fix will stop the memory leakage.

681850-1 : APMD process may fail to initialize on start either after upgrade or after adding certain configurations

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
APMD process may fail at initialization time with errors similar to the following:

-- createAgent - initInstance() failed for agent xxx_saml_auth_ag type (46)
-- Exiting due to failure in loading access policy objects

Conditions:
-- BIG-IP system is configured as SAML SP.
-- Certificate used by configured SAML Agent was imported onto BIG-IP system in DER format.

Impact:
APMD service may become unresponsive, dropping all traffic protected by APM access policies.

Workaround:
Convert DER encoded certificate used by SAML SP agent into PEM format.

Fix:
DER certificate no longer cause APMD process errors at initialization time.

681757-1 : Upgraded volume may fail to load if a Local Traffic Policy uses the forward parameter 'member'

Solution Article: K32521651

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
In response to this issue, you might see the following symptoms:
-- System remains inoperative
-- Screen alerts similar to the following are posted: 'Configuration has not yet loaded'.
-- Configuration fails to load after upgrade to v12.1.0 or higher.

The system records an error message similar to the following in the ltm log file:

emerg load_config_files: "/usr/bin/tmsh -n -g load sys config partitions all " - failed. -- 010716de:3: Policy '/Common/Policy', rule 'Policy-Rule'; target 'forward' action 'select' does not support parameter of type 'member'. Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed.

Conditions:
Local Traffic Policy with a forward action that selects a target of type 'member'.

Impact:
Configuration fails to load on upgrade.

Workaround:
Modify the local traffic policies to use a target type of 'node' before upgrading, or, after upgrading, edit the config file and modify 'member' to 'node' in the local traffic policy, and then reload the configuration.

Fix:
Upon upgrade to v12.1.0 or later, policies that perform the action 'forward - select - member' will be automatically changed to 'forward - select - node', and configuration will load successfully.

681710-4 : Malformed HTTP/2 requests may cause TMM to crash

Solution Article: K10930474

681415-1 : Copying of profile with advanced customization or images might fail

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Copying a profile with advanced customization or images produces an error message similar to the following: 'Please specify language code' or similar

Conditions:
Access Profile has advanced customization group or customization image assigned to any of object connected to profile.

Impact:
Unable to copy policy.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Copying of profile with advanced customization or images now succeeds as expected.

681175-1 : TMM may crash during routing updates

Solution Article: K32153360

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When dynamic routing is configured and ECMP routes are received, certain routing updates may lead to a TMM crash.

Conditions:
-- Dynamic routing.
-- ECMP routes.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Disable ECMP routes by configuring "max-paths 1" in ZebOS.

Fix:
TMM no longer crashes on routing updates when ECMP is in use.

681109-2 : BD crash in a specific scenario

Solution Article: K46212485

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
BD crash occurs.

Conditions:
A specific, non-default configuration with specific traffic.

The issue is much more likely to occur when the policy is not tuned correctly, in which case you might receive a potentially huge number of false positive attack signature matches on that payload. The crash might then occur if there is a subsequent 'Parameter value does not comply with regular expression' violation on that same payload.

For example, nothing prevents you from incorrectly associating a Content-Type and <type-value> with a Request Body Handling parser that is not designed to parse that type of data, such as the following:
Content-Type :: *xml* :: form-data

This configuration is likely to result in a very long list of false-positive attack signatures. Because of the big message generated, The regex violation which is also likely to happen on the payload cannot be added to the filled message, which causes the crash.

Impact:
Failover, traffic disturbance.

Workaround:
In order to prevent this, correctly configure the header-based-content-profile property on URLs for cases where an unusual header requires a specific, potentially unexpected parsing mechanism.

A correctly configured header-based-content-profile property on URLs appears as follows:

In URL Properties, the Header-Based Content Profiles section of the wildcard URL is by default applying the value and content signature. Here, you can associate Content-Type with <type-value> with <parser-type>. By default, the correct definitions are as follows:
Content-Type :: *form* :: Form Data
Content-Type :: *json* :: JSON
Content-Type :: *xml* :: XML

Fix:
Added a check to prevent a crash in a specific scenario.

680856-3 : IPsec config via REST scripts may require post-definition touch of both policy and traffic selector

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
A new IPsec tunnel may not work after being configured over REST. While the configuration is correct, a log message similar to the following may appear in ipsec.log (IKEv2 example):

info tmm[24203]: 017c0000 [0.0] [IKE] [INTERNAL_ERR]: selector index (/Common/Peer_172.16.4.1) does not have corresponding policy

Conditions:
A new IPsec tunnel is configured over REST.

Impact:
The newly configured IPsec tunnel does not start.

Workaround:
The following methods cause the traffic-selector and ipsec-policy to be correctly related to one another:
-- Restart tmm.
-- Change the configuration, for example the Description field, of both the policy and the traffic selector. This may also be done using REST.

Fix:
A traffic selector can no longer use a deleted policy by name, and if recreated after deletion, the policy is correctly constructed.

680850-1 : Setting zxfrd log level to debug can cause AXFR and/or IXFR failures due to high CPU and disk usage.

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
Enabling debug logging on zxfrd (DNSX) can result in excessive CPU and disk usage, as well as errors during DNS AXFR or IXFR processing.

Conditions:
log.zxfrd.level is set to debug by running the following command: tmsh modify sys db log.zxfrd.level value debug

Impact:
IXFRs or AXFRs may fail and be rescheduled due to high CPU usage by zxfrd, which causes it to fail to process data packets during a transfer.

Workaround:
To avoid this issue, do not set log.zxfrd.level to debug.

Fix:
With this change, the dump to /var/tmp/zxfrd.out occurs only when a new db variable, dnsexpress.dumpastext, is set to true. This enables turning on logging for debug without consuming all the CPU and disk necessary to dump packets and zone contents.

Note: Setting this value to true will cause the information to be dumped to stderr, which reveals the original issue, potentially causing transfer failures and high system resource usage. F5 recommends that you enable it only when directed to do so by F5 support staff.

Behavior Change:
Previously, setting the zxfrd log level to debug caused all AXFR and IXFR requests and responses to be logged to /var/tmp/zxfrd.out. Doing so also caused the contents of all zones to be dumped, as text, to /var/tmp/zxfrd.out when the database was saved.

This was extremely CPU-, memory-, and disk-intensive. The CPU load could cause zxfrd to fail to process transfer data packets in a timely fashion, which could cause the master DNS server to close the connection.

With this fix, setting log.zxfrd.level debug no longer outputs this information.

Although it is not generally useful to output the contents of the transfer packets or the contents of the database, if this information is required for troubleshooting or information-verification purposes, you can set the new db variable: dnsexpress.dumpastext.

Note: Setting this value to true will cause the information to be dumped to stderr, which reveals the original issue, potentially causing transfer failures and high system resource usage. F5 recommends that you enable it only when directed to do so by F5 support staff.

680838-3 : IKEv2 able to fail assert for GETSPI_DONE when phase-one SA appears not to be initiator

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
A tmm restart and corefile can occur in rare cases while negotiating an IKEv2 IPsec tunnel.

A child_sa managed to process GETSPI_DONE once in the IDLING state, where the ike_sa was expected to be the initiator, but it appeared not to be -- failing an assert.

Conditions:
The BIG-IP is negotiating an IPsec tunnel as the Initiator, but an unexpected state change associated with being the Responder occurs.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None

Fix:
TMM will no longer restart due to assertion failure.

680755-1 : max-request enforcement no longer works outside of OneConnect

Solution Article: K27015502

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
max-request enforcement does not work when OneConnect is not configured.

Conditions:
-- The max-request enforcement option is configured.
-- OneConnect is not configured.

Impact:
max-request enforcement does not work.

Workaround:
Always use OneConnect.

Fix:
max-request enforcement now works when OneConnect is not configured.

680729-3 : DHCP Trace log incorrectly marked as an Error log.

Solution Article: K64307999

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
The following sample DHCP debug log may be found repeatedly in the TMM logs.

<#> <date> <slot#> notice DHCP:dhcpv4_xh_timer_callback/1053: Entering: <mac-addr>

Conditions:
Send a DHCP request through a DHCP virtual and wait for 30 seconds for the DHCP callback to trigger.

Impact:
Possible clutter in the TMM logs.

Workaround:
Set the db variable to critical. To do so, run the following command: setdb tmm.dhcp.log.level critical

Fix:
The following log can be seen only when DHCP debug logs are set to enabled.
<#> <date> <slot#> notice DHCP:dhcpv4_xh_timer_callback/1053: Entering: <mac-addr>

680388-2 : f5optics should not show function name in non-debug log messages

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
For logging thresholds other than debug, the function name appears in log messages created by f5optics.

Conditions:
-- BIG-IP is running.
-- Logging thresholds is set to a value other than debug.

Impact:
Log files contain unexpected data.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
With the fix, f5optics is not displaying function names in non-debug logging messages.

680112-1 : SWG-Explicit rejects large POST bodies during policy evaluation

Solution Article: K18131781

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
When an access profile of type SWG-Explicit is being used, there is a 64 KB limit on POST bodies while the policy is being evaluated.

==> /var/log/apm <==
err tmm[13751]: 01490514:3: (null):Common:00000000: Access encountered error: ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED. File: ../modules/hudfilter/access/access.c, Function: hud_access_process_ingress, Line: 3048

Conditions:
This applies only during the policy evaluation. After the policy has been set to 'Allow', there is no limit.

Impact:
Unable to start an SWG-Explicit policy with a large POST body.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Modify the db variable 'tmm.access.maxrequestbodysize' with a value larger than the maximum post body size you would like to support. The maximum supported value is 25000000 (25 MB).

680069-3 : zxfrd core during transfer while network failure and DNS server removed from DNS zone config★

Solution Article: K81834254

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
zxfrd cores and restarts.

Conditions:
While zone transfer is in progress, the network fails and the DNS server is removed from the DNS zone configuration.

Impact:
zxfrd cores.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
zxfrd no longer cores during transfer while network failure and DNS server removed from DNS zone config.

679959-1 : Unable to ping self IP of VCMP guest configured on i5000, i7000, or i10000

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Unable to the ping self IP of VCMP guests configured on i5000, i7000, or i10000.

Conditions:
Running TMOS v12.1.3 and VCMP guests configured on i5000, i7000 or i10000.

Impact:
Unable to process client traffic.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
This issue is fixed.

679603-2 : bd core upon request, when profile has sensitive element configured.

Solution Article: K15460886

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
bd crash, system goes offline.

Conditions:
ASM provisioned.
-- ASM policy attached on a virtual server.
-- json profile configured with sensitive element.

Impact:
System goes offline/fails over.

Workaround:
Remove sensitive elements from the json profile in the ASM policy.

Fix:
ASM now handles this condition so the crash no longer occurs.

679496-1 : Add 'comp_req' to the output of 'tmctl compress'

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The output of 'tmctl compress' displays the total numbers of requests (tot_req), but does not distinguish between deflate (compression) requests and inflate (decompression) requests.

Conditions:
Viewing the output of the 'tmctl compress' command.

Impact:
Cannot determine the different types of requests.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
This release now distinguishes between deflate (compression) requests and inflate (decompression) requests, as follows: there is an indicator, 'comp_req', for compression requests. The number of decompression request is tot_req - comp_req.

679494-2 : Change the default compression strategy to speed

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The current default compression.strategy is 'latency', which does not perform properly, i.e., the provider selection algorithm does not react to load change fast enough.

Conditions:
Using compression.strategy to distribute workload among hardware and software compression providers.

Impact:
The work load may not be distributed evenly among hardware and software compression providers when compression.strategy is 'latency'.

Workaround:
Modify the tmsh sys db variable compression.strategy to 'speed'.

Fix:
The default compression strategy is now set to 'speed'.

679480-1 : User able to create node when an ephemeral with the same IP already exists

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
If an FQDN ephemeral node exists for a given IP address, the user is still able to create a real node for the same IP address.

Conditions:
This can only be done by the GUI, not by tmsh or iControl REST.

Impact:
This should be prevented, but is allowed.

Workaround:
Avoid creating such a node.

Fix:
Validation now prevents this from happening.

679440-2 : MCPD Cores with SIGABRT

Solution Article: K14120433

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
MCPD cores with SIGABRT.

Conditions:
This occurs while the dynamic white/black daemon (dwbld) processes auto-blacklisted IP addresses.

Impact:
MCPD core.

Workaround:
Run the following command:
tmsh modify sys db debug.afm.shun.notify_peers value disable

Fix:
MCPD no longer cores with SIGABRT if the auto-blacklisting feature is enabled.

679384-1 : The policy builder is not getting updates about the newly added signatures.

Solution Article: K85153939

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
The policy builder is not getting updates about the newly added signatures.

Conditions:
When ASU is installed or user-defined signatures are added/updated.

Impact:
No learning suggestions for some of the newly added signatures.

Workaround:
Use either of the following workarounds:
-- One workaround is restarting the policy builder. This will revert the learning progress made in the last 24 hours:
killall -s SIGHUP pabnagd

-- Manually change some Policy Attack Signature Set in Learning and Blocking Settings (e.g., disabling and re-enabling Learn checkbox).

Fix:
After the fix, Policy Builder will be aware of all newly added signatures.

679347-3 : ECP does not work for PFS in IKEv2 child SAs

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The original racoon2 code has no support for DH generate or compute using elliptic curve algorithms for (perfect forward security).

Additionally, the original interfaces are synchronous, but the only ECP support present uses API with async organization and callbacks, so adding ECP does not work.

Conditions:
Changing an ike-peer definition from the default phase1-perfect-forward-secrecy value of modp1024 to something using ECP: ecp256, ecp384, or ecp512.

Note: The first child SA is negotiated successfully.

Impact:
Once the first child SA expires (or is deleted), the IKEv2 tunnel goes down when another SA cannot be negotiated.

Workaround:
Use MODP for perfect-forward-secrecy instead of ECP.

Fix:
Full support for ECP as PFS has now been added, so a new child-SA negotiated in a IKEV2EXCH_CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange works as expected for ecp256, ecp384, and ecp512.

679235-5 : Inspection Host NPAPI Plugin for Safari can not be installed

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Inspection Host NPAPI Plugin for Safari on macOS High Sierra can not be installed.

Conditions:
macOS High Sierra, Inspection Host Plugin package installation triggered.

Impact:
Inspection Host plugin cannot be installed, therefore, endpoint checks will not work.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Previously, the Inspection Host NPAPI Plugin for Safari on macOS High Sierra could not be successfully installed. This plugin can now be successfully installed.

679221-1 : APMD may generate core file or appears locked up after APM configuration changed

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Right after clicking the 'Apply Access Policy' link, APMD may generate a core file and restart; or appears to be locked up.

Conditions:
-- Changing APM configuration, especially Per-Session and Per-Request Policy.
-- Configured for AD or LDAP Auth Agent.

Impact:
If APMD restarts, then AAA service will be interrupted for a brief period of time. If APMD appears to be locked up, then AAA service will be stopped until manually restarted.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
APMD now processes the configuration changes correctly during 'modify apm profile access <profile name> generation-action increment' (TMSH) or 'Apply Access Policy' (GUI), and no service interruption occurs.

679149-2 : TMM may crash or LB::server returns unexpected result due to reused lb_result->pmbr[0]

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
TMM may crash or LB::server returns unexpected result.

Conditions:
GTM rule command LB::server is executed before a load balance decision is made or the decision is not to a real pool member.

Impact:
GTM rule command LB::server returns unexpected result. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
GTM rule command LB::server is now executed at the correct time, so TMM does not crash and LB::server returns expected results.

679135-3 : IKEv1 and IKEv2 cannot share common local address in tunnels

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When IKEv1 and IKEv2 IPsec tunnels are configured to use the same local IP address, either all the IKEv1 or all the IKEv2 tunnels will not establish.

Note: This is as designed: the system does not support using the same local self IP to establish both IKEv1 and IKEv2 tunnels. However, the system does not prevent it, and there is no indication of the reason for the failure.

Conditions:
-- Use the same self IP as the local address of an IPsec tunnel for IKEv1, as well as the local address of a tunnel for IKEv2.
-- Try to create competing listeners.

Impact:
Either the IKEv1 or IKEv2 tunnel will not work, because the listener for that tunnel fails to establish. Usually the IKEv1 tunnel will not work after tmm restart or BIG-IP reboot.

Workaround:
Use another self IP for the tunnel local address to keep IKEv1 and IKEv2 local tunnel addresses separate.

Note: If IKEv1 tunnels use one local address, while IKEv2 tunnels use another, everything works as expected.

Fix:
Logging in /var/log/ltm now reveals failure to establish listener, along with a suggestion to avoid sharing one local address across IKEv1 and IKEv2 tunnels.

679114-2 : Persistence record expires early if an error is returned for a BYE command

Solution Article: K92585400

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
When an error is returned for a SIP command, the persistence timeout is set to the transaction timeout.

Conditions:
An error is returned for a any SIP command.

Impact:
The persistence record will expire early when the call has not been ended.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
For BYE commands, the timeout is not set to transaction timeout on failure.

678976-2 : Do not print all HTTP headers to avoid printing user credentials to /var/log/apm.

Solution Article: K24756214

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
VDI debug logs print user credentials to /var/log/apm.

Conditions:
VDI debug logs are enabled and VDI functionality is used on the virtual server.

Impact:
User credentials are written to /var/log/apm.

Workaround:
Set VDI debug level to Notice.

Fix:
The system no longer prints user credentials to VDI debug logs.

678925-4 : Using a multicast VXLAN tunnel without a proper route may cause a TMM crash.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Using a multicast VXLAN tunnel without a proper route associated with the tunnel's local-address may cause a TMM crash.

Conditions:
When the following conditions are met:
- No route is associated with the tunnel's local-address.
- A selfip address is assigned to the tunnel.

Then, a connection using the tunnel may cause a TMM crash.

Note that the user can use the TMSH command "show net route lookup <address>" to check if there is a route associated with the tunnel's local-address.

Impact:
The TMM crashes and traffic is disrupted.

Workaround:
Make sure that there is a route associated with the tunnel's local-address, before using the tunnel.

Fix:
The TMM no longer crashes.

678872-2 : Inconsistent behavior for virtual-address and selfip on the same ip-address

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Inconsistent ICMP/ARP behavior for self IP address or virtual-address when virtual-address and self IP address have the same IP address.

Conditions:
Virtual-address and self IP address have the same IP address.
-- Virtual-address ICMP and ARP disabled.

Impact:
ICMP echo reply and ARP for the IP address might be inconsistent. Self IP address might override the ARP setting of a virtual address.

Workaround:
No workaround.

Fix:
This implements the initialization-order-independent set of rules of whether particular IP address should have ARP/ICMP enabled for multiple maching vaddrs. The lookup is performed from the most fine netmask to the most coarse netmask. If for particular netmask there is no maching vaddr then more coarse netmask is lookedup. Otherwise if any machnig vaddr for particular netmask have ARP/ICMP enabled then IP address will have ARP/ICMP enabled. If none of matching vaddrs for particular netmask have ARP/ICMP enabled the then IP address will have ARP/ICMP disabled.

The rule above have one exception, due to the performance optimizations. If the vaddr have both ARP and ICMP disabled then the vaddr is considered deleted.

678861-3 : DNS:: namespace commands in procs cause upgrade failure when change from Link Controller license to other★

Solution Article: K00426059

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
Upgrade fails with a message similar to the following.

emerg load_config_files: "/usr/bin/tmsh -n -g load sys config partitions all " - failed. -- 01070356:3: Link Controller feature not licensed. Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed.

Conditions:
Previously had Link Controller with DNS:: commands in an iRule proc.

Impact:
Upgrade fails.

Workaround:
Remove DNS:: commands from procs before upgrade.

Or use AFM instead of iRules.

678851-1 : Portal Access produces incorrect Java bytecode when rewriting java.applet.AppletStub.getDocumentBase()

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Java applets containing call of getDocumentBase() through a reference to java.applet.AppletStub are incorrectly rewritten.

Attempt to call incorrectly patched method causes following exception:
java.lang.VerifyError: (...) Illegal type in constant pool

Conditions:
This occurs when using rewrite on Java applets that call getDocumentBase().

Impact:
Affected Java applets cannot be started through Portal Access.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Rewritten applets with calls of java.applet.AppletStub interface methods are no longer causing java.lang.VerifyError exception during execution.

678833 : IPv6 prefix SPDAG causes packet drop

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
If IPv6 prefix SPDAG is turned on, on systems running v12.1.2 HF1, v12.1.2 HF2, or 12.1.3, it can cause packet drops.

Conditions:
Turn on IPv6 prefix DAG.
-- Assign a value other than 128 to sys db tmm.pem.session.ipv6.prefix.len.
-- Running v12.1.2 HF1, v12.1.2 HF2, or 12.1.3.

Impact:
Packet drops.

Workaround:
Turn off IPv6 prefix SPDAG.

678822-3 : Gx/Gy stats display provision pending sessions if there is no route to PCRF or the app is unlicensed

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
If the PEM subscribers are brought up with diameter apps (Gx/Gy) configured and the PCRF is not reachable since there is no route or simply because there is no license configured for those apps. The Provision pending for sessions will get incremented and never rollback to zero even after the subscribers are cleaned up.

Conditions:
If the route to PCRF/OCS is missing or not reachable.

Impact:
Non-Zero stats for provision pending sessions

Workaround:
Disable the Gx/Gy profile if not required or configure the route.

Fix:
The system no longer increments the stats for diameter apps if the PCRF/OCS is not reachable, so this issue no longer occurs.

678820-2 : Potential memory leak if PEM Diameter sessions are not created successfully.

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Memory leak resulting in reduction in available memory.

Conditions:
1. PEM configured with Gx.
2. PCRF Gx end point operationally DOWN
3. Subscriber creation attempt.

Impact:
Loss of service

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Diameter context is freed in case of a failed Diameter session creation.

678801-2 : WS::enabled returned empty string

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
WS::enabled command returned empty string instead of 0 or 1 for status.

Conditions:
-- WS::enabled command is used to query the status of WebSocket processing.
-- WebSocket and HTTP profiles are configured on the virtual server.

Impact:
Unable to determine the status of WebSocket processing using iRule commands.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Invoke appropriate method via WebSocket Tcl code.

678722-2 : In SSL-O, TMM may core when SSL forward proxy cleanup certificate resources

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
in SSL-O, due to race condition, TMM may core when SSL forward proxy tries to free up memory usage by releasing certificate resources.

Conditions:
This only happens in SSL-O with SSL forward proxy configured.

Impact:
TMM may restart due to using the wrong free function. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM no longer cores under these conditions.

678715-1 : Large volume of query result update to SessionDB fails and locks down ApmD

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
While writing large query results from AD server to sessionDB using memcache API, write operation fails with partial write.

Conditions:
Large volumes of AD query (with Required 'All Attributes') results from AD server while writing to SessionDB.

Impact:
Operation fails with partial write. All worker threads performing authentication eventually gets locks down. Session watchdog thread eventually make a forced abort to recover from the situation. Apmd restarts in this situation.

Workaround:
Make query for specific attributes not the option 'All Attributes'.

Fix:
Partial write failure has been fixed, by writing remaining parts of the query results in several iterations, till the entire result is written.

678714-3 : After HA failover, subscriber data has stale session ID information

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
After a failover in a high availability (HA) configuration, subscriber local data is populated with stale session id information

Conditions:
-- HA failover.
-- PEM subscriber.

Impact:
Subscriber data with stale session ID information might cause invalid reference to incorrect subscriber data.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Subscriber local data is now populated with new, generated session ID information.

678462-2 : after chassis failover: asmlogd CPU 100% on secondary

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
After a failover in a chassis:

- asmlogd CPU 0% on primary slot (which was secondary before the failover).

- asmlogd CPU 100% on secondary (which was primary before the failover).

Without traffic running through the chassis.

Conditions:
-- ASM provisioned.
-- Chassis with at least two active slots.
-- Chassis failover after some traffic was passed through the chassis.

Impact:
asmlogd CPU shows 100% on secondary (which was primary before the failover), and vice versa.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
The asmlogd process now better handles chassis failovers during which the chassis slots change roles (primary/secondary), so this issue no longer occurs.

678416-2 : Some tmm/umem_usage_stat counters may be incorrect under memory pressure.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
After the BIG-IP system experiences severe memory pressure, the 'allocated' and 'max_allocated' counters from the tmm/umem_usage_stat table incorrectly show extremely high values.

Conditions:
The BIG-IP system experiences enough memory pressure that slabs are transferred between threads.

Impact:
The 'allocated' and 'max_allocated' counters from the tmm/umem_usage_stat table do not reflect actual values. However, there is no functionality issue as a result. This is a cosmetic issue only.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now manages better under memory pressure so that the tmm/umem_usage_stat counters correctly reflect actual values.

678388-3 : IKEv1 racoon daemon is not restarted when killed multiple times

Solution Article: K00050055

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
IPsec IKEv1 tunnels will fail and stay down indefinitely if the IKEv1 racoon daemon crashes. racoon does not get restarted by tmipsecd. This can occur if racoon has crashed more than once beforehand.

Conditions:
The IPsec IKEv1 racoon daemon crashes, or is killed manually, multiple times.

Impact:
IPsec IKEv1 tunnels cannot be established because the racoon daemon is dead. The user will receive no CLI or web UI clues to indicate that racoon is dead. Attempts to reconfigure IPsec while racoon is dead will not resolve the problem.

Workaround:
Run the following command to restart the IPsec IKEv1 racoon and tmipsecd daemons at the same time:
tmsh restart sys service tmipsecd

Fix:
Fixed tmipsecd so it correctly tracks whether the IKEv1 racoon daemon is still running or needs a restart. This also covers odd timing, such as killing racoon right after it starts.

678293-1 : Uncleaned policy history files cause /var disk exhaustion

Solution Article: K25066531

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
There are hundreds of policy history files for non-existent policies stored under /ts/dms/policy/policy_versions, which might cause /var disk exhaustion.

Conditions:
There are hundreds of policy history files for non-existent policies stored under /ts/dms/policy/policy_versions.

Two possible causes might explain what caused the history files to be copied:
-- The device was synchronized from itself.
-- There was a UCS loaded on the device.

Impact:
/var disk usage is high.

Workaround:
Use the following one-liner to find unreferenced policy history files that can be deleted:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
perl -MData::Dumper -MF5::DbUtils -MFile::Find -e '$dbh = F5::DbUtils::get_dbh(); $sql = ($dbh->selectrow_array(q{show tables in PLC like ?}, undef, q{PL_POLICY_VERSIONS})) ? q{select policy_version, policy_id from PLC.PL_POLICY_VERSIONS} : q{select revision, policy_id from PLC.PL_POLICY_HISTORY}; %known_history_files = map { (qq{$_->[1]/$_->[0].plc} => 1) } @{$dbh->selectall_arrayref($sql)}; find({ wanted => sub { next unless -f $_; $_ =~ m|/policy_versions/(.*)$|; if (! $known_history_files{$1}) { print qq{$_\n} } }, no_chdir => 1, }, q{/ts/dms/policy/policy_versions});'
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Manually verity the file list output. If it seems correct, you can then delete the files by piping the output into 'xargs rm'.

In addition, you can delete the following file: /var/ts/var/install/recovery_db/conf.tar.gz.

678228-1 : Repeated Errors in ASM Sync

Solution Article: K27568142

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
If an error is encountered when building a full sync file for an ASM enabled Device Group, any future attempts at building a sync file will continue to fail.

Conditions:
An error such as a full disk or out of memory occurs when attempting to build a sync file for an ASM enabled Device Group

Impact:
Any future attempts at building a sync file will continue to fail.

Workaround:
Restart the ASM Config processes, or clear out /ts/var/sync.

Fix:
Remnants of failed sync files are now correctly cleaned up before building a new one.

677962-3 : Invalid use of SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When BIG-IP negotiates settings over HTTP/2 connection, it adopts a value of peer's SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE parameter as its own.

Conditions:
A virtual is configured with HTTP/2 profile.

Impact:
BIG-IP may accept a DATA frame with size above 16,384 bytes violating RFC.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
BIG-IP no longer accepts DATA frames with sizes exceeding a default value of 16,384 bytes.

677958-2 : WS::frame prepend and WS::frame append do not insert string in the right place.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When WS::frame prepend and WS::frame append are used together in the same event, the strings are not inserted in the right place.

Conditions:
-- Both WS::frame prepend and WS::frame append commands are present in the same iRule event.
-- WebSocket and HTTP profile are configured on the virtual.
-- Client/server send and receive WebSocket frames.

Impact:
The user-supplied string is not inserted in the right place when sent to the end-point.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Separate buffers were now used for append and prepend, instead of reusing the same buffer.

677937-1 : APM tunnel and IPsec over IPsec tunnel rejects isession-SYN connect packets

Solution Article: K41517253

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
APM client cannot connect to server when the APM tunnel is encapsulated in an IPsec tunnel.

Conditions:
This requires a relatively complicated network setup of configuring an APM tunnel over an IPsec tunnel (and iSession is in use).

Impact:
No connectivity between the client and the server.

Workaround:
Do not encapsulate APM tunnel in an IPsec tunnel. (The APM tunnel has its own TLS.)

Fix:
APM tunnel and IPsec over IPsec tunnel now correctly accepts isession-SYN connect packets.

677928-2 : A wrong source MAC address may be used in the outgoing IPsec encapsulated packets.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
A wrong source MAC address may be used in the outgoing IPsec encapsulated packets when the BIG-IP VE system is operated in Azure.

Conditions:
The BIG-IP VE system is first deployed in Azure with a single NIC. After the first reboot and then power off, a second NIC is added to the BIG-IP system. Then, an IPsec tunnel is configured to associate with a selfip on the second NIC.

Impact:
The Azure environment or a remote device may drop the outgoing IPsec encapsulated packets from the BIG-IP system because the source MAC address of the packets is wrong.

Fix:
The source MAC address of the outgoing IPsec encapsulated packets from the BIG-IP system is set correctly.

677525-3 : Translucent VLAN group may use unexpected source MAC address

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When a VLAN group is configured in translucent mode, IPv6 neighbor discovery packets sent from the BIG-IP system may have the locally unique bit flipped in the source MAC address.

Conditions:
VLAN group in translucent mode.

Impact:
In an HA configuration, switches in the network may have FDB entries for the standby system assigned to the port of the active system.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
Translucent VLAN group no longer send neighbor discovery packets whose source MAC has the locally unique bit flipped.

677473-1 : MCPD core is generated on multiple add/remove of Mgmt-Rules

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
MCP crashes with core. MCP automatically restarts causing other dependent daemons, including tmm, to restart. Corresponding messages (restarting mcp, restarting tmm, and so on) are broadcast in all command line connections (terminals). Core files are written into /shared/core directory. The BIG-IP system might become unusable while daemons restart, so both control-plane (tmsh/GUI) and data traffic processing are stopped until all daemons restart.

Conditions:
-- AFM is licensed and provisioned.
-- There are firewall policies/rules defined in configuration.
-- Remove firewall rules/policies, especially rules attached to management-IP (might have to repeat this).

Impact:
The BIG-IP system might become unusable for few minutes while daemons restart, so both control-plane (tmsh/GUI) and data traffic processing are stopped. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
MCP no longer crashes, and other dependent daemons no longer restart. The BIG-IP system remains operational in both control-plane (tmsh/GUI) and data traffic processing.

677457 : HTTP/2 Gateway appends semicolon when a request has one or more cookies

Solution Article: K13036194

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
With an HTTP/2 profile, a virtual server on a BIG-IP system receives requests and handles cookies converting those into a cookie-string. The BIG-IP system concatenates the cookie pairs with semicolon (%3B) and a space (%20) in the cookie-string. This delimiters pair also is appended to the last cookie pair.

Conditions:
HTTP/2 profile is configured on a virtual server and a request contains one or more cookies.

Impact:
The request forwarded to a backend server contains an extra semicolon at the end of cookie-string.

Workaround:
Use an iRule to remove an extra delimiter if it negatively impacts backend server performance.

For example:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
if {[HTTP::header value "Cookie"] contains ";"}
{
set new_header [string range [HTTP::header "Cookie"] 0 end-2]
log local0.notice "$new_header"
HTTP::header replace "Cookie" $new_header
}
}

Fix:
Virtual server with HTTP/2 profile no longer appends extra delimiter to a cookie-string when it forwards the request to HTTP/1.x backend server.

677400-3 : pimd daemon may exit on failover

Solution Article: K82502883

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When multicast traffic is passing on a high availability (HA) pair, the pimd daemon on the unit that transitions to standby may exit and drop a core file.

Conditions:
-- Multicast routing configured.
-- PIM-Sparse Mode configured.
-- HA failover configuration.

Impact:
None. The system that goes active will reconverge, and multicast traffic will resume.

Workaround:
No workaround required.

Fix:
The pimd daemon no longer exits when an HA failover occurs.

677193-2 : ASM BD Daemon Crash.

Solution Article: K38243073

677119 : HTTP2 implementation incorrectly treats SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When HTTP2 connection's parameters are negotiated, either side may report about its limits in SETTINGS type frame where one of the parameters SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE determines a maximum size of headers list it is willing to accept. BIG-IP incorrectly interchanged this parameter with another one called SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE, limiting value of the former one to 32,768.

Conditions:
HTTP2 is configured and an opposite endpoint (user agent using HTTP2 protocol) tries to set SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE to a value above 32,768.

Impact:
BIG-IP doesn't accept the value and terminates the connection using GOAWAY frame with PROTOCOL_ERROR as a reason.

Fix:
BIG-IP no longer generates an error due to this issue and allows value for SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE to exceed 32,768.

677088-4 : Qkview does not follow current best practices

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Qkview does not follow current best practices

Conditions:
Qkview does not follow current best practices

Impact:
Qkview does not follow current best practices

Fix:
Qkview now follows current best practices

677058-3 : Citrix Logon prompt with two factor auth or Logon Page agent with two password type variables write password in plain text

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Logon page agent with more than one password variable or Citrix logon prompt will log plain text password when debug logging is turned on for access policy.

Conditions:
This occurs when following conditions are met:

- Citrix Logon Prompt with two factor auth or Logon page agent with more than one password variable is added in the Access Policy.
- Access Policy logging is set to debug.

Impact:
APM logs plain text password when debug logging is turned on for access policy.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Password values are no longer written in APM logs when debug logging is enabled for access policy.

676982-2 : Active connection count increases over time, long after connections expire

Solution Article: K21958352

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
- Number of active connections is increasing over time.
- Memory used by TMM increases over time.
- Potential TMM restart is possible.

Conditions:
This issue arises only when all the following conditions occur:
- Hardware is chassis type.
- There is more than one blade in service.
- A fastL4 profile is configured (e.g., using bigproto).
- SessionDB is used either by iRules or by native profile
functionality.

Impact:
- Service may be impacted after a period.
- TMM instances may restart.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
SessionDB-related accesses initiated via iRules are now properly cleaned up and no longer hang.

676914-1 : The SSL Session Cache can grow indefinitely if the traffic group is changed.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
If there are entries in the SSL Session Cache, and the traffic group is changed, the cache might grow indefinitely.

Conditions:
-- SSL is configured.
-- Session cache has a limit on the number of entries. --
After entries are made into the session cache, the traffic group is then changed.

Impact:
Eventually all memory will be consumed causing TMM to restart. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Disable the session cache.

As an alternative, after changing the traffic group, restart TMM.

Fix:
Changing the traffic group no longer causes the session cache to grow.

676897-1 : IPsec keeps failing to reconnect

Solution Article: K25082113

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When an IPsec Security Association (SA) does not exist on a remote IPsec peer, the BIG-IP system might be sent an INVALID-SPI notification, but might not delete the SA. The IPsec tunnel might not be renegotiated until the deleted SAs on the BIG-IP system are removed manually or age out.

Conditions:
-- The BIG-IP system and remote peer communicate over a lossy network.
-- The remote peer prematurely deletes an IPsec SA.

Impact:
IPsec tunnel appears to be up but suffers a connectivity loss until the SPIs are manually deleted or age out.

Workaround:
Manually delete the SA.

Fix:
This release corrects this issue.

676828-2 : Host IPv6 traffic is generated even when ipv6.enabled is false

Solution Article: K09012436

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Observing IPv6 traffic from the BIG-IP system, even when ipv6.enabled is set to false.

Conditions:
sys db ipv6.enabled is false.

Impact:
Extraneous IPv6 traffic from the the BIG-IP system.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
IPv6 traffic now properly observes the ipv6.enabled sys db variable.

676808-2 : FPS: tmm may crash on response with large payload from server

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
A request to a unprotected FPS URL may cause tmm crash if response payload is large and the URL was configured via live update.

Conditions:
1. Page is not protected.
2. Large response payload (e.g.,50 KB).
3. FPS registered for response event (this will happen if a global URL (configured via live update) was matched).

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
FPS will check for fast response situation and will act accordingly.

676721-2 : Missing check for NULL condition causes tmm crash.

Solution Article: K33325265

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Missing check for NULL condition causes tmm crash.

Conditions:
One possible route involves load balancing failure, but there may be other paths leading to this crash.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM correctly checks for NULL condition to prevent the crash.

676690-3 : Windows Edge Client sometimes crashes when user signs out from Windows

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
In rare cases Windows Edge Client may crash when user signs out from Windows

Conditions:
User signs out from Windows or restarts Windows while EdgeClient is running and VPN is established

Impact:
No functional impact, user see a message box with error block sign out process. When the user closes the message box, sign out process continues.

Fix:
Previously, in some instances, the Edge Client on Windows would crash when the user signed out of Windows. This has been fixed.

676457-3 : TMM may consume excessive resource when processing compressed data

Solution Article: K52167636

676416-2 : BD restart when switching FTP profiles

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Switching a Virtual Server from an FTP profile with Protocol Security enabled to an FTP profile with Protocol Security disabled, causes the BIG-IP system to go offline, generates errors in the bd log, and causes BD to restart.

Conditions:
-- Running FTP traffic with FTP profile with Protocol Security enabled.
-- On FTP service, change to FTP profile with Protocol Security disabled.

Impact:
BD restart, traffic disrupted, and failover in high availability (HA) configuration.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
This version provides an improved mechanism for switching FTP profiles, so that now there is no BD restart.

676355-2 : DTLS retransmission does not comply with RFC in certain resumed SSL session

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The DTLS FINISHED message is not retransmitted if it is lost in the Cavium SSL offloading platform. Specifically, it is the CCS plus FINISHED messages that are not retransmitted.

Conditions:
-- In the Cavium SSL offloading platform.
-- DTLS FINISHED Message is lost.

Impact:
When the DTLS FINISHED Message is lost in the Cavium SSL offloading platform, the CCS and FINISHED messages do not get retransmitted.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The FINISHED messages are saved before transmitting the Cavium encrypted FINISHED message, and starting the DTLS re-transmit timer. When the re-transmit timer expires, the CCS plus FINISHED messages will be retransmitted.

676203-1 : Inter-blade mpi connection fails, does not recover, and eventually all memory consumed.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
TMM memory usage suddenly increases rapidly.

Conditions:
The inter-blade mpi connection fails and does not recover.

Impact:
Inter-blade mpi requests do not complete and the system eventually exhausts memory.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Inter-blade mpi connection now continues as expected, without memory issues.

676092-1 : IPsec keeps failing to reconnect

Component: TMOS

Conditions:
-- The BIG-IP system and remote peer communicate over a lossy network.
-- The remote peer prematurely deletes an IPsec SA.

Impact:
IPsec tunnel appears to be up but suffers a connectivity loss until the SPIs are manually deleted or age out.

Workaround:
Manually delete the SA.

Fix:
The system now correctly handles these conditions so the issue no longer occurs.

676028-2 : SSL forward proxy bypass may fail to release memory used for ssl_hs instances

Solution Article: K09689143

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TMM leaks memory used for ssl_hs instances when using SSL forward proxy when bypass is enabled.

Conditions:
The leak can be triggered by iRules, where a duplicate forward proxy lookup is initiated and interferes with the initial asynchronous lookup.

Impact:
TMM will core after running out of memory, which impacts availability.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Resolved by preventing duplicate forward proxy lookup.

675928-2 : Periodic content insertion could add too many inserts to multiple flows if http request is outstanding

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Multiple flows of the same subscriber could get insert content enabled frequently, if the requests from those flows are outstanding

Conditions:
If the http request from the subscriber is outstanding when the new flow is triggered

Impact:
PEM insert content pem_acton will be enabled on multiple flows till the first response is received

Fix:
Throttle insert content action on new flows only to periodic interval if the transaction is outstanding.

675921 : Creating 5th vCMP 'ssl-mode dedicated' guest results in an error, but is running

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Creating 'ssl-mode dedicated' guests on the BIG-IP i5800, the 5th guest and beyond get an error, however they do become deployed with Status or 'running'.

Conditions:
-- Creating 5 (or more) 'ssl-mode dedicated' vCMP guests.
-- Running on the BIG-IP i5800 platform.

Impact:
5th guest and beyond result in an error.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now limits the maximum number of 'ssl-mode dedicated' vCMP guests to the number that the BIG-IP i5800 can physically support.

675866-1 : WebSSO: Kerberos rejects tickets with 2 minutes left in their ticket lifetime, causing APM to disable SSO

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Kerberos rejects tickets with 2 minutes left in their ticket lifetime. This causes tickets to be rejected by KDC, causing APM to disable SSO.

Conditions:
This occurs with Kerberos-protected resources using Windows Server 2012-based DC due to issue described in the Microsoft KB: Kerberos authentication fails when the computer tries to request a service ticket from a Windows Server 2012-based DC, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2877460/kerberos-authentication-fails-when-the-computer-tries-to-request-a-ser.

Impact:
Cannot access the Kerberos-protected resources.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Tickets are not used when the remaining lifetime is less than 5 minutes. Existing tickets with more than half the configured lifetime or at least 1 hour of lifetime remaining are used. If there are no such tickets, then new tickets are acquired and used.

675775-2 : TMM crashes inside dynamic ACL building session db callback

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Race condition between PPP tunnel close and Session expired happening on different TMM almost at the same time may cause TMM restart in dynamic ACL building session db callback.

Conditions:
Race condition between PPP tunnel close and Session expired happening on different TMM almost at the same time.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None

Fix:
Guard against NULL pointer dereference for dynamic ACL build.

675718-1 : IPsec keeps failing to reconnect

Component: TMOS

Conditions:
-- The BIG-IP system and remote peer communicate over a lossy network.
-- The remote peer prematurely deletes an IPsec SA.

Impact:
IPsec tunnel appears to be up but suffers a connectivity loss until the SPIs are manually deleted or age out.

Workaround:
Manually delete the SA.

Fix:
Corrected an environmental problem with the racoon daemon.

675539-1 : Inter-system communications targeted at a Management IP address might not work in some cases.

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
Inter-system communications fail to connect to a BIG-IP system using the Management IP address.

Conditions:
This occurs if the device connection is configured between a Self IP address on one BIG-IP system and the Management IP address on another.

This occurs because the big3d daemon acts as a proxy, listening on the Management IP address and will send proper SSL connections (using SNI) to TMM (since TMM does not listen on the Management IP address).

This is not an issue if either of the following is true:

-- If the source of the connection is coming from the Management IP,
the connection is clear text. (Not SSL encrypted and thus does not use SNI)

-- The destination of the connection is a Self IP address, because TMM (via an iRule) will
handle the connection.

Impact:
Device sync operations do not work.

Workaround:
Do not use the Management IP address for between-device communications.

Fix:
The big3d proxy properly handles SSL SNI connections on the Management IP address.

675399-3 : Network Access does not work when empty variables are assigned for WINS and DNS

Solution Article: K14304639

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Network Access does not work when empty variables are assigned for WINS and DNS.

Conditions:
If the admin configures empty values for WINS or DNS in the Variable Assign agent in the VPE.

Impact:
The system does not parse the XML tags correctly. Users may not be able establish VPN tunnel.

Workaround:
Do not leave the DNS or WINS values empty in the Variable assign Agent.

Fix:
APM now correctly handles the condition where an empty string is assigned for WINS and/or DNS in the Variable Assign policy agent.

675232-3 : Cannot modify a newly created ASM policy within an iApp template implementation or TMSH CLI transaction

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Errors encountered -

In TMSH CLI transaction:
----------------
transaction failed: 01020036:3: The requested ASM policy (/Common/<some_policy>) was not found.
----------------

In iApp template implementation:
----------------
script did not successfully complete: (01020036:3: The requested ASM policy (/Common/<some_policy>) was not found.
----------------

Conditions:
In an iApp template implementation or TMSH CLI transaction, create a new ASM policy and then try to modify it's active state.

Impact:
The policy is created but the modify action cannot find the policy.

Workaround:
iApps are built to work with ASM Policy Templates.

A new ASM Policy Template can be created from the desired ASM Policy.

That can be done via GUI and starting from from v13.0 via REST as well.

Then, the newly created ASM Policy Template can be referenced in the iApp template implementation or TMSH CLI transaction as follows:
-----------------
tmsh::create asm policy <some_policy> active policy-template NEWLY_CREATED_POLICY_TEMPLATE
-----------------

Fix:
iApp template implementation and TMSH CLI transaction can now modify a newly created ASM policy.

675212-3 : The BIG-IP system incorrectly allows clients through as part of SSL Client Certificate Authentication

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under specific conditions, the BIG-IP system allows clients through (that otherwise should be rejected) as part of SSL Client Certificate Authentication.

Conditions:
This issue occurs when the Trusted Certificate Authority specified in the Client-SSL profile is expired.

Note: The client's certificate must be valid and trusted for the SSL handshake to continue.

This issue purely deals with how the BIG-IP system treats the validity period of the signing Certificate Authority.

Impact:
F5 has reviewed this issue and has not classified it as a Vulnerability. However, F5 recognizes this issue may have a Security Exposure depending on how the BIG-IP system is utilized.

Please observe that the issue here is not validation of the expiration time in the client's certificate. The issue here is handling of the expiration field in the certificate the BIG-IP system explicitly trusts, the so-called 'trust anchor'. In most cases, the trust anchor is a self-signed certificate.

It is important to understand that the expiration field in trust anchors has no clear meaning, and even utilities such as OpenSSL historically treated this field in different ways.

After completing its review, F5 has decided the correct and best behavior for the BIG-IP system is to reject the SSL handshake when the Trusted Certificate Authority has expired.

The impact of this issue will vary greatly based on your deployment and type of business. In most cases, continuing to allow clients through past the validity of the Certificate Authority may be the behavior you expect or one that carries no negative consequences.

However, if you obtained the Certificate Authority from a third party and expected the client certificates signed by that authority to stop working when its validity period expires, this will not happen because of this issue.

Workaround:
F5 recommends that you renew (or obtain renewed copies of) Certificate Authorities that are about to expire and that you want the BIG-IP system to continue trusting.

F5 recommends that you remove from the BIG-IP system Certificate Authorities that are about to expire and that you do not plan to renew or continue trusting.

This will ensure the BIG-IP system behaves optimally on versions affected by this issue.

Fix:
The BIG-IP system now correctly handles the validity period of Trusted Certificate Authorities used for SSL Client Certificate Authentication.

674931 : FPS modified responses/injections might result in a corrupted response

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
in case a connection was congested and FPS tries to send additional egress (modifying the response, e.g. injections) the order of the response sending might break if this send is successful (i.e congestion just ended). instead of sending the buffered data first (response part that was buffered due to congestion), FPS tries to send the new data first and only than will send the buffered data.

Conditions:
- congested connection
- FPS sends modified response (e.g. injections)
- sending egress succeeded (congestion ended)

Impact:
response is corrupted - order of data has erroneously changed

Workaround:
N/A

Fix:
FPS will handle this case correctly, first sending buffered data then sending the new egress.

674909-3 : Application CSS injection might break when connection is congested

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
Large CSS files configured for phishing protection injection in FPS (not fictive websafe CSS files) may be truncated upon response to client.

Conditions:
Inject into Application CSS enabled in Anti-Fraud Profile » Advanced » Phishing Detection

Large CSS file such as bootstrap files configured for Application CSS Locations.

Network congestion engaging TMM flow control.

Impact:
Pages may display incorrectly in client browser depending on application requirements with specific CSS. May break application functionality.

Workaround:
1) Remove affected large files from Application CSS Locations.

or

2) Disable Inject into Application CSS entirely.

Fix:
FPS now handles the case where injecting to application css was interrupted by congestion.

674747-2 : sipdb cannot delete custom bidirectional persistence entries.

Solution Article: K30837366

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
Custom bidirectional SIP persistence entries cannot be deleted using the sipdb tool.

Conditions:
Rules and SIP messages created custom bidirectional SIP persistence entries.

Impact:
Custom bidirectional SIP persistence entries exist and can be viewed with the sipdb utility. They cannot be deleted,
however.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The sipdb tool now supports deletion of bidirectional SIP persistence entries.

674686-2 : Periodic content insertion of new flows fails, if an outstanding flow is a long flow

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
If an outstanding flow with periodic insertion pem_action is very long, it prevents new flow matching the same rule from adding inert content pem_action even for a new periodic interval

Conditions:
If the outstanding flow with insert content pem_action spans multiple periodic interval.

Impact:
No content insertion during the time the long flow is outstanding for new flows matching the same rule as the long flow.

Workaround:
Long flows and short flows need to have separate rule configured

Fix:
New flows will add content insertion, if the new flow request falls in the new periodic interval.

674593-1 : APM configuration snapshot takes a long time to create

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
It takes a long time to create the configuration snapshot for a file. This may be accompanied by MEMCACHED related log message, as shown below.

notice apmd[12928]: 0149016a:5: Initiating snapshot creation: tmm.session.10b9e255c7bb0_28oooooooooooooooo for access profile: /Common/workspace-acess
notice apmd[12928]: 0149016f:5: Waiting for MEMCACHED to be ready
notice apmd[12928]: 01490000:5: ApmD.cpp func: "wait_for_memcached_ready()" line: 1273 Msg: Unable to connect to tmm (sessiondb). Trying again...
notice apmd[12928]: 01490000:5: ApmD.cpp func: "wait_for_memcached_ready()" line: 1280 Msg: Successfully connected to tmm (sessiondb)...
notice apmd[12928]: 0149016b:5: Completed snapshot creation: tmm.session.10b9e255c7bb0_28oooooooooooooooo for access profile: /Common/workspace-acess
notice apmd[12928]: 01490171:5: MEMCACHED is up

Conditions:
The issue happens if an access profile contains many resources, the resulting configuration
snapshot will have even more configuration variables.

Impact:
TMM will run out of memory If the issue persists. User will not be able to log in due to profile not found error similar to the following:

err apmd[13681]: 01490114:3: /Common/workspace-acess2:Common:a6b495ce: process_request(): Profile '/Common/workspace-acess2' was not found

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
APM policy configuration snapshot generation performance for very large configurations has been improved.

674576-4 : Outage may occur with VIP-VIP configurations

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
In some VIP-VIP configurations, TMM may produce a core with a 'no trailing data' assert.

Conditions:
VIP-VIP configuration.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
TMM no longer produces a core with a 'no trailing data' assert.

674527-1 : TCL error in ltm log when server closes connection while ASM irules are running

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
TCL error in ltm log, for example:
TCL error: /Common/bug <ASM_REQUEST_DONE> - plugin_tcl_command_execute: Command error. invoked from within "ASM::severity"

Conditions:
1. ASM irules are attached.
2. There was already one request passed to the web-server
3. Server closes connection.

Impact:
Error in ltm log.

674515 : New revoke license feature for VE only implemented

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Prior to this version, the license revoke feature was not implemented/available.

Conditions:
With out revoke implemented, the feature is simply not available.

Impact:
Licenses cannot be revoked and hence re-used.

Fix:
With this feature implemented, VE licenses can be revoked and then re-used on different VE.

674494-1 : BD memory leak on specific configuration and specific traffic

Solution Article: K77993010

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
RSS memory of the bd grows.

Conditions:
-- Remote logger is configured.
-- IP has ignore logging configured.
-- Traffic is coming from the ignored logging IP.

Impact:
Potential memory exhaustion. The kernel might run out of memory and may kill bd, causing traffic disruption.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Freeing up the remote loggers data when deciding not to log remotly.

674455-7 : Serial console baud rate setting lost after running 'tmidiag -r' in Maintenance OS

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When booted into the Maintenance OS image from the grub boot menu, running tmidiag -r drops the serial console from the grub kernel line, which causes a loss of communication on the serial console after rebooting.

Conditions:
-- Booted into Maintenance OS.
-- Running the command: tmidiag -r

Impact:
Serial console baud rate settings are incorrect. Uses the bios baud rate on the console.

Workaround:
When booting, edit the grub kernel line to include console=ttyS0.

Note: The value is "tty", an uppercase "S" character, and zero, so ttyS0.

Fix:
tmidiag has been fixed to not strip out console=ttyS0.

674410-3 : AD auth failures due to invalid Kerberos tickets

Solution Article: K59281892

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
User can not login.

Conditions:
- AAA AD server is configured on BIG-IP.
- AD Auth/Query agent is used in Access Policy.
- Cached Kerberos ticket is invalid or backend AD server is not reachable for some reason

Impact:
AD Auth/Query fails. APM end user won't be able to take successful branch in Access Policy.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Invalid Kerberos tickets for AD Query are now automatically renegotiated by APM.

674320-2 : Syncing a large number of folders can prevent the configuration getting saved on the peer systems

Solution Article: K11357182

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When syncing a large number of folders (more than 56), the configuration on the peer systems fails to save. An error similar to the following appears in the audit log, possibly followed by garbage characters:

notice tmsh[15819]: 01420002:5: AUDIT - pid=15819 user=root folder=/Common module=(tmos)# status=[Syntax Error: "}" is missing] cmd_data=save / sys config partitions { tf01 tf02 tf03 tf04 tf05 tf06 tf07 tf08 tf09 tf10 tf11 tf12 tf13 tf14 tf15 tf16 tf17 tf18 tf19 tf20 tf21 tf22 tf23 tf24 tf25 tf26 tf27 tf28 tf29 tf30 tf31 tf32 tf33 tf34 tf35 tf36 tf37 tf38 tf39 tf40 tf41 tf42 tf43 tf44 tf45 tf46 tf47 tf48 tf49 tf50 tf51 tf52 tf53 tf54 tf55 tf56 tf57 tf58 tf59

Note: These 'tfnn' folder names are examples. The audit log will contain a list of the actual folder names. (Folders are also called 'partitions'.)

Conditions:
-- System is in a device group.
-- Sync operation occurs on the device group.
-- There are a large number of folders (more than 56).

Impact:
Configuration on peer systems in a device group does not get saved after a sync.

Workaround:
Manually save the configuration on peer systems after a sync.

Fix:
The configuration on peer systems is now saved when a large number of folders are involved in the sync.

674288-2 : FQDN nodes - monitor attribute doesn't reliably show in GUI

Solution Article: K62223225

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When creating more than one node with FQDN configured with monitors, monitors are not displayed in the GUI properly.

Conditions:
Create more than one node with FQDN configured.

Impact:
The previously created FQDN node does not display monitors in the GUI. However, the subsequently created FQDN node does display the correct monitors.

Workaround:
Use tmsh to view monitors for Nodes with FQDN configured.

Fix:
Node page now displays the correct monitors for nodes configured with FQDN.

674189 : iControl-SOAP exposed to CVE-2016-0718 in Expat 2.2.0

Solution Article: K52320548

674004-1 : tmm may crash when after deleting pool member in traffic

Solution Article: K34448924

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
tmm may crash when after deleting pool member that is processing traffic.

Conditions:
-- Two or more pools share the same node as pool member.
-- A pool member (with the shared node) is deleted while traffic is passing.
-- Connpool is used.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
tmm no longer crashes when after deleting pool member while traffic is passing.

673951-4 : Memory leak when using HTTP2 profile

Solution Article: K56466330

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Memory continues to grow despite reduced volume of traffic. Large number of spdy_frame and xdata allocated.

Conditions:
Virtual server configured with HTTP2 profile.

Impact:
Memory leak, which might eventually trigger aggressive sweeper and potential crash, resulting in failover.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Virtual server configured with HTTP2 profile no longer leaks memory.

673814-4 : Custom bidirectional persistence entries are not updated to the session timeout

Solution Article: K37822302

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
Custom bidirectional persistence entries will be created using the transaction timeout when processing the request, but will not be updated to the session timeout on a successful response.

Conditions:
-- Using custom bidirectional persistence.
-- Successful response message is received.

Impact:
The persistence timeout will prematurely time out.

Workaround:
Set the transaction timeout to the session timeout value.

Fix:
The persistence timeout is correctly updated to the session timeout value when a successful response message is received.

673748-1 : ng_export, ng_import might leave security.configpassword in invalid state

Solution Article: K19534801

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
If import/export of Access Profile or Access Policy results in an error, security.configpassword may retain temporary not <null> state, which can cause problems when the config is saved or loaded using the sys save config or sys load config commands.

Conditions:
Import or export of Access Profile or Access Policy fails with an error.

Impact:
Passwords in .conf might get mangled.

Workaround:
Set the security.configpassword db variable using the following command:
modify sys db security.configpassword value "<null>"

673717-1 : VPE loading times can be very long

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
When a configuration contains 2000-3000 Access Policy objects, the Visual Policy Editor (VPE) loading operations can take tens of seconds to load.

Conditions:
-- Access Policy configured with 2000-3000 Access Policy objects.
-- Open in VPE.

Impact:
Policies with thousands of entries can take tens of seconds or more to load.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Configuration load has been optimized, so VPE loading time is significantly shorter for these types of configurations.

673683-2 : Periodic content insertion fails, if pem and classification profile are detached and reattached to the Listener

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Periodic content insertion for a subscriber may stop working after one or more insertions.

Conditions:
When a subscriber action list have Insert content added and if pem and classification profiles are detached and re-attached to the Listener, periodic insertion may fail to insert the content. This happens when more than one subscriber is using the same policy rule and the listener.

Impact:
Periodic insert content action will fail to insert the content

Workaround:
Delete and recreate the subscriber for which insert content action no longer working

Fix:
For subscriber content insertion record lookup, use the right session id storage associated with the subscriber

673678-2 : Periodic content insertion fails, if http request/response get interleaved by second subscriber http request

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Periodic content insertion for a subscriber may stop working after one or more insertions.

Conditions:
When a subscriber action list have Insert content added and if the request/response for that http transaction get interleaved by another subscriber request. This happens when more than one subscriber is using the same policy rule

Impact:
Periodic insert content action will fail to insert the content

Workaround:
Delete and recreate the subscriber for which insert content action no longer working

Fix:
For subscriber content insertion record lookup, use the correct session id storage associated with the subscriber.

673621-2 : Chain certificate is still being sent to the client, despite both ca-file and chain certificate being removed from the clientssl profile.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Chain certificate is still being sent to the client, despite both ca-file and chain certificate being removed from the clientssl profile.

Conditions:
Set ca-file to 'none' in the clientssl profile.

Impact:
Chain is still sent.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Chain certificate is no longer sent to the client when both ca-file and chain certificate are removed from the clientssl profile.

673607-2 : Apache CVE-2017-3169

Solution Article: K83043359

673595-2 : Apache CVE-2017-3167

Solution Article: K34125394

673484-1 : IKEv2 does not support NON_FIRST_FRAGMENTS_ALSO

Solution Article: K85405312

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
IPsec IKEv2 tunnels cannot be established when the remote peer sends a NON_FIRST_FRAGMENTS_ALSO notification as part of the child Security Association (SA) establishment. This parameter is commonly sent by ASA devices.

Conditions:
-- IPsec IKEv2 with ASA peer.
-- Remote peer sends a NON_FIRST_FRAGMENTS_ALSO notification as part of the child SA establishment.

Impact:
IKEv2 IPsec tunnels cannot be established with ASA peer.

Workaround:
Use IKEv1.

Fix:
During IPsec IKEv2 child SA establishment, the BIG-IP will ignore the NON_FIRST_FRAGMENTS_ALSO notification and will continue to establish the SA.

673472-2 : After classification rule is updated, first periodic Insert content action fails for existing subscriber

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
Immediately after the classification rule associated with a static subscriber is updated and if the action list has Insert content, the first periodic insert content action fails for the subscribers. Subsequent Insert content action will proceed as expected

Conditions:
Update of the classification rule associated with the subscribers.

Impact:
First periodic Insert content action, immediately succeeding after the update of the classification rule will fail.

Workaround:
bigstart restart tmm, after updating the classification rule with insert content action will fix the issue

Fix:
Update the record count associated with the subscriber during eval.

673463-2 : SDD v3 symmetric deduplication may start performing poorly after a failover event

Solution Article: K68275280

Component: Wan Optimization Manager

Symptoms:
In certain high availability (HA) configurations and after performing specific maintenance tasks involving failovers, SDD v3 symmetric deduplication may start performing poorly for some file transfers.

Conditions:
This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met:

1) A BIG-IP HA configuration is deployed on each side of the WOM tunnel.
2) Symmetric deduplication is configured to use the SDD v3 codec.
3) The far side BIG-IP HA configuration (from the perspective of the client performing the download) is failed over.
4) Clients attempt to download files that had previously been transferred through the BIG-IP units.

Impact:
Symmetric deduplication is severely impacted (virtually no hits) for files that had previously been transferred through the units. This causes the amount of data transmitted over the WAN to increase. Files that were not transferred previously through the units are not affected by this issue.

Workaround:
To eliminate the impacted symmetric deduplication condition, restart the receiving (i.e., the near) side.

Fix:
SDD v3 symmetric deduplication no longer performs poorly after a failover event.

673399-1 : HTTP request dropped after a 401 exchange when a Websockets profile is attached to virtual server.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The client sends a GET request with switching protocols and the server responds with a 401. Subsequent GET request from client is dropped.

Conditions:
HTTP and Websocket profiles are attached to the virtual server. The client sends a GET request with switching protocols indicating upgrade to Websockets, and the server responds with a 401. Subsequent GET request from client is dropped.

Impact:
Connection is reset.

Workaround:
Disable Websockets profile on the virtual server.

Fix:
We now check whether the Websockets filter is on the virtual server before attempting an insert.

673165 : CVE-2017-7895: Linux Kernel Vulnerability

Solution Article: K15004519

673129 : New feature: revoke license

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
A different license is required for each Virtual Edition (VE) instance.

Conditions:
Creating new instances of VE.

Impact:
Cannot reuse an existing VE license.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
For Virtual Edition (VE) BIG-IP systems, licenses can now reused by other VE instances by revoking an active license on one and installing it on another.

Behavior Change:
Revoke license is a new feature so that licenses can be reused for other virtual edition configurations.

To revoke a license using tmsh, run the following command:
tmsh revoke sys license registration-key <reg-key-number>

The system responds with the following confirmation prompt:
Revoking the license will return this BIG-IP to an unlicensed state. It will stop processing traffic. Are you sure? Y/N:

When you type y, the system revokes the license and returns a response similar to the following:
License successfully revoked
[root@bigip11:LICENSE INOPERATIVE:Standalone] config # Jul 17 12:04:28 bigip11 emerg mcpd[5144]: 01070608:0: License is not operational (expired or digital signature does not match contents).

673078-1 : TMM may crash when processing FastL4 traffic

Solution Article: K62712037

673075-1 : Reduced Issues for Monitors configured with FQDN

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Monitors configured using FQDN might experience several edge cases in some deployment environments. For example, you might experience issues with FQDN-configured monitors when used in environments with volatile/unstable DNS servers, or when network configuration causes ICMP packets from an unreachable DNS server to be non-routable back to 'bigd'. In such cases, the monitor may experiences delay in rotating to the next available DNS server. This is due to complex edge cases that exist within the initial FQDN monitor implementation, where anomalous behavior is aggravated through some network configurations.

Conditions:
Monitors are configured using FQDN, and one-or-more environment conditions exist such as: Unstable DNS servers (i.e., 'flapping' DNS), or the network configuration causes ICMP packets from an unreachable DNS server to be non-routable back to 'bigd'.

Impact:
The monitor will not be updated with information from the (new) DNS server when the previous DNS server becomes unavailable. Other monitor behavior will continue to function normally.

Workaround:
In some cases network configuration can be changed to avoid these edge cases, such as: Ensuring stable DNS servers with only periodic rollovers to backup DNS servers; ensure network ICMP packets are routable back to 'bigd'. Alternatively, monitors may be configured without using FQDN.

Fix:
Monitors configured using FQDN behave as expected in volatile environments, such as those with flapping DNS servers and where ICMP packets for unreachable DNS servers are non-routable back to 'bigd'.

673052-2 : On i-Series platforms, HTTP/2 is limited to 10 streams

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
On i-Series platforms, HTTP/2 is limited to 10 streams by licensing.

"HTTP2 limited to 10 concurrent streams: Web Accelerator feature not licensed." appears in /var/log/ltm

Conditions:
Using an i-Series platform where WAM is unlicensable.

Impact:
HTTP/2 performance may be less than desired

Fix:
It is possible to configure HTTP/2 with more than 10 streams on i-Series platforms.

672988-2 : MCP memory leak when performing incremental ConfigSync

Solution Article: K03433341

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
MCP will leak memory when performing incremental ConfigSync operations to peers in its device group. The memory leak can be seen tmctl utility to watch the umem_alloc_80 cache over time.

This leak occurs on the device that is sending the configuration.

Conditions:
A device group that has incremental sync enabled. In versions prior to BIG-IP v13.0.0, this is controlled by the 'Full Sync' checkbox. When unchecked, the system attempts to perform incremental sync operations.

Impact:
MCP leaks a small amount of memory during each sync operation, and after an extended period of time, might eventually crash.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
MCPD no longer leaks when performing incremental ConfigSync operations.

672868-1 : Portal Access: JavaScript application with non-whitespace control characters may be processed incorrectly

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Portal Access server-side JavaScript parser may work incorrectly if JavaScript code includes non-whitespace control characters inside text constants.

Conditions:
JavaScript code with non-whitespace control characters (0x00..0x08, 0x0E..0x1B, 0x7F..0x9F) inside text constants.

Impact:
Web application may not work correctly.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Now JavaScript code with non-whitespace control characters can be processed by Portal Access.

672815-2 : Incorrect disaggregation on VIPRION B4200 blades

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
During startup of the bcm56xxd daemon, the LTM log shows BCM SDK errors containing the string 'SDK error Invalid parameter'. IP fragments fail to be reassembled. The reassembly time out triggers and the flow is killed.

Conditions:
-- After startup as long as the SDK errors occur.
-- Running on VIPRION B4200 blades.

Impact:
TCP connections and UDP datagrams which have fragmented packets are killed or dropped.

Workaround:
There is no workaround that will process fragments correctly.

Fix:
Incorrect disaggregation on VIPRION B4200 blades has been corrected.

672695-1 : Internal perl process listening on all interfaces when ASM enabled

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
ASM configuration processes are available on unprotected network interfaces.

Conditions:
ASM provisioned

Impact:
Connections to the ASM configuration processes may interfere with normal ASM operations, leading to reduced performance

Workaround:
None

Fix:
ASM-config Event Dispatcher now listens only on protected interfaces

672667-4 : CVE-2017-7679: Apache vulnerability

Solution Article: K75429050

672504-1 : Deleting zones from large databases can take excessive amounts of time.

Solution Article: K52325625

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
When deleting a zone or large number of Resource Records, zxfrd can reach 100% CPU for large amounts of time.

Conditions:
With a significantly sized database, deletes might be very time-intensive.

Impact:
Because zxfrd takes an excessive amount of time deleting records, it can delay transfer requests

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Dramatically improved algorithm, to remove significant delay in deletions.

672491-2 : net resolver uses internal IP as source if matching wildcard forwarding virtual server

Solution Article: K10990182

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
If a net resolver is created and contains a forwarding zone that matches an existing wildcard forwarding virtual server, an incorrect internal IP address will be used as the source.

Upon listener lookup for the net resolver, the wildcard virtual server will be matched to the forwarding zone resulting in a loopback IP address being used as the source IP address.

Conditions:
When creating an AFM policy that restricts FQDNs, a net resolver is needed to resolve the FQDNs. If the forwarding zone of this net resolver matches a wildcard server, DNS queries from the net resolver will use a loopback IP address as the source IP address.

Impact:
Failed DNS queries as a result of incorrect source IP address.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
This issue was resolved by ensuring listener lookup only matches the exact IP addresses, no-wildcards.

672301-2 : ASM crashes when using a logout object configuration in ASM policy

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
bd daemon crash and writes a core file in the /shared/core directory.

Conditions:
-- ASM provisioned.
-- ASM policy attached to a virtual server.
-- Logout object configured in the policy.
-- System receives a POST request.

Impact:
System goes offline for a few seconds, failover occurs.

Workaround:
Remove logout object configuration from ASM policy.

Fix:
The system now handles this condition.

672250-1 : SessionDB update from ApmD with large volume fails

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
While writing large amounts of data to sessionDB using memcache API, the write operation fails with partial write.

Conditions:
Large volumes data writing to SessionDB via memcache API.

Impact:
All worker threads performing authentication eventually get locked down. Session watchdog thread eventually makes a forced abort to recover from the situation. ApmD restarts in this situation.

Workaround:
Control write to sessionDB with a smaller data size.

Fix:
Partial write failure has been fixed, by writing remaining part(s) of query results in several iteration(s), until entire result is written.

672124-3 : Excessive resource usage when BD is processing requests

Solution Article: K12403422

672040-3 : Access Policy Causing Duplicate iRule Event Execution

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
iRule event gets triggered twice in clientless mode when access policy is executed.

Conditions:
This only occurs when using iRule in clientless-mode.

Impact:
HTTP_REQUEST event is logged twice in /var/log/ltm.

See below example:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  HTTP::header insert {clientless-mode} 1
  set myCount [expr {$myCount + 1}]
  log local0. "Count is $myCount"
}

LTM logs:
-----------

Jul 3 12:29:35 BIG-IP10002-vcmp2 info tmm1[23908]: Rule /Common/test_irule <HTTP_REQUEST>: Count is 1
Jul 3 12:29:36 BIG-IP10002-vcmp2 info tmm1[23908]: Rule /Common/test_irule <HTTP_REQUEST>: Count is 2

When this iRule is used, you will see duplicate HTTP_REQUEST with increased count in logs. If this count is used in further calculation, it gives you incorrect result.

Fix:
HTTP_REQUEST iRule event is no longer executed multiple times when using APM clientless-mode.

672008-1 : NUL character inserted into syslog message when system time rolls over to exactly 1000000 microseconds

Solution Article: K22122208

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Remote syslog logging destinations configured for RFC5424 format might receive malformed timestamp values if the log message is sent when clock rolls over to 1,000,000 microseconds exactly. The resulting log message will have a NUL character appended to the microseconds value in the log's timestamp field.

Example:
Correct timestamp: 2003-08-24T05:14:15.000000-07:00
Malformed timestamp: 2003-08-24T05:14:14.100000\00-07:00

Conditions:
-- syslog destination configured for RFC5424 format.
-- Sending log message when clock rolls over to 1,000,000 microseconds.

Impact:
Some syslog collectors may fail to parse the message, resulting in incorrect log entry or warning.

Workaround:
Change syslog destination format to use RFC3164, which does not include microsecond resolution in timestamp fields.

Fix:
The timestamp field is now formatted correctly for microseconds and seconds values. Seconds now correctly increment when microseconds equal 1,000,000.

671999-2 : Re-extract the the thales software everytime the installation script is run

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
If Thales has already been installed on the BIG-IP system, installing a new version does not overwrite the existing installed version.

Conditions:
/shared/nfast exists on the BIG-IP system before installing the Thales client software.

Impact:
The old version of the software will be used in the installation operation, instead of the expected new version of the software.

Workaround:
You can use either or both of the following workarounds before running the installation script:

-- Run the uninstallation script.
-- Delete the /shared/nfast folder.

Fix:
The Thales installation script now always extracts the Thales software in /shared/thales_install and overwrites the /shared/nfast directory.

Behavior Change:
Thales HSM installation script always overwrites the /shared/nfast directory.

671935-2 : Possible ephemeral port reuse.

Solution Article: K64461712

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When selecting server-side source ports, the BIG-IP system favors ephemeral ports in the upper range.

Conditions:
Source ports, different from the client side, may be reselected. This is always the case when the virtual server's 'source-port change' option is enabled.

Impact:
If server connections are in the TIME_WAIT state and connection recycling is not configured, the server might reset the connection, reusing ports.

Workaround:
Disable the virtual server's 'source-port change' option to use the same source port as the connecting client.

Fix:
Now, even when the virtual server's 'source-port change' option is enabled, the system uses the same source port as the connecting client.

671920-1 : Accessing SNMP over IPv6 on non-default route domains

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The SNMP daemon cannot send traps to a non-default route domain destination. However, it can respond to SNMP requests over from a client that is accessed through a non-default route domain path for IPv4. For IPv6 this does not work.

Conditions:
SNMP access over IPv6 on a client accessed through a non-default route domain does not work.

Impact:
Access to SNMP must be through default route domain for IPv6.

Fix:
With this bug fix you can access SNMP from an IPv6 client on a non-default route domain. There is no plan to allow traps to be delivered to destinations on a non-default route domain.

671675-1 : Centralized Management Infrastructure: asm_config_server restart on device group change

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
If device is moved from one ASM sync enabled device group immediately to another ASM sync enabled device group the ASMConfig relay listener restarts, and artifacts are left over from the previous device group that could cause undesired config synchronization if it returns to the original device group

Conditions:
A device is moved from one ASM sync enabled device group immediately to another ASM sync enabled device group.

Impact:
ASMConfig relay listener restarts, and artifacts are left over from the previous device group that could cause undesired config synchronization if it returns to the original device group

Workaround:
Wait 30 seconds between leaving an ASM enabled device group before joining a different one.

Fix:
Successive changes to ASM sync enabled device group are handled correctly.

671638-4 : TMM crash when load-balancing mptcp traffic

Solution Article: K33211839

671627-1 : HTTP responces without body may contain chunked body with empty payload being processed by Portal Access.

Solution Article: K06424790

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Some HTTP responses do not contain any body. For instance, responses with status codes 1xx, 204, or 304 must not include body. Portal Access adds 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' header and may add chunked body with empty payload to such responses.

Conditions:
HTTP response without body processed by Portal Access

Impact:
Most browsers ignore invalid 'Transfer-Encoding' header and/or body for responses which must not include body at all. And yet, some traffic validators may refuse to pass invalid responses.

Workaround:
Use an iRule to remove 'Transfer-Encoding' header and/or body from HTTP responses with status codes 1xx, 204, and 304.

Fix:
Now Portal Access does not add invalid 'Transfer-Encoding' header and/or body to responses which have no body.

671597-1 : Import, export, copy and delete is taking too long on 1000 entries policy

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Huge policies with 10^3 items are impossible to import, export and copy.

Conditions:
When access policy has 1000+ entires.

Impact:
Import, export and copy are abandoned or fail due to out of memory condition.

Workaround:
Use ng_export, ng_import and ng_profile rather than UI to import/export.

Fix:
ng_export speed has been improved 5 times
ng_import and ng_profile are working 50 times faster because of avoiding denormalisation and optimisation

ng_export is still should be used from the console.

671373-2 : urldb core seen

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Due to having multiple threads, terminating and destroying the database can cause the crash. The main thread does not wait for others to exit before trying to destroy the database.

Conditions:
SWG is provisioned and re-provisioned after the config has loaded.

Note: This core is very rare (it is intermittent and timing-dependent).

Impact:
urldb cores. Since it was in the process of being shut down for the re-provisioning anyway, this has little to no impact.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
urldb no longer cores SWG is provisioned and re-provisioned after the config has loaded.

671337-1 : NetHSM DNSSEC key creation can attempt to change the SELinux label on a file

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A log message such as type=AVC msg=audit(1498506868.354:3786): avc: denied { relabelfrom } for pid=7567 comm="mv" name="_Common_zsk_127000B6DC9454EACB50A1FD2073C5F5314F.key" dev="dm-15" ino=80012 scontext=system_u:system_r:mcpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:mcpd_tmp_t:s0 tclass=file
can appear in the logs.

Conditions:
When a NetHSM DNSSEC key is created in a temporary directory and is trying to change the SELinux label on a file without permissions.

Impact:
SELinux error will be logged

Fix:
Allow netHSM script via MCPd to relabel files

671326-2 : DNS Cache debug logging might cause tmm to crash.

Solution Article: K81052338

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
DNS Cache debug logging might cause tmm to crash.

Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:

-- The dnscacheresolver.loglevel debug value is set to 1 - 5.
-- tmm.verbose is enabled.

Impact:
tmm crashes and restarts. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Do not enable the DNS Cache debug log when tmm.verbose is enabled.

Fix:
DNS Cache debug logging no longer causes tmm to crash.

671314-4 : BIG-IP system cores when sending SIP SCTP traffic

Solution Article: K37093335

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Virtual servers with an SCTP profile and a SIP message-routing profile may crash the TMM.

Conditions:
This flaw affects virtual servers that pass SCTP traffic, where the SIP message-routing profile has the record-route option enabled.

Impact:
TMM crashes and fails over, disrupting traffic processing. Traffic disrupted while TMM restarts.

Workaround:
Remove the record-route option, or change the traffic to use TCP or UDP instead of SCTP.

Fix:
This crash has been fixed.

671228-1 : Multiple FQDN ephemeral nodes may be created with autopopulate disabled

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Multiple FQDN ephemeral nodes may be created unexpectedly if an FQDN node is configured with autopopulate disabled, the DNS server returns multiple address records for the FQDN, and bigd is restarted.

Conditions:
This may occur when:
1. An FQDN node is configured with autopopulate disabled.
2. The DNS server returns multiple address records for the FQDN.
3. There is a pool configured to use the FQDN node.
4. bigd is restarted (such as when the system goes offline or tmm restarts).

Impact:
Multiple FQDN ephemeral nodes may be created unexpectedly.

Workaround:
Configure the FQDN node with autopopulate enabled.

Fix:
Multiple FQDN ephemeral nodes are no longer created unexpectedly if an FQDN node is configured with autopopulate disabled, the DNS server returns multiple address records, and bigd is restarted. This issue is resolved by the FQDNv2 feature re-implementation in this version of the software.

671149-3 : Captive portal login page is not rendered until it is refreshed

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Sometimes Edge Client shows an error page for captive portal-redirected URLs.

Conditions:
Some captive portal pages use cloud-based authentication and network management. Such captive portals rely on several HTTP redirects and/or HTML (auto-refresh). Sometimes Edge Client fails to download the page/content from the redirected URL. In such scenarios, a full browser re-attempts and successfully downloads and displays the page, but Edge Client does not re-attempt and shows an error page.

Impact:
For the locked client, an APM end user has no access to the internet until captive portal authentication is performed and the Network Access (VPN) tunnel is created.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Edge Client now has a retry mechanism to access and display captive portal login pages in case the first attempt fails.

671082-1 : snmpd constantly restarting

Solution Article: K85168072

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
sod is restarting snmpd, which also produces a core.
SNMP clients are unable to walk the ifTable.

Conditions:
snmpd takes too long processing a request for the ifTable because there are a large amount of VLANs or VLAN groups configured.

Impact:
SNMP requests will not receive replies while snmpd is restarting.
SNMP clients are not able to walk the ifTable.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Significantly reduced the time it takes snmpd to process requests for the ifTable when the number of VLANs or VLAN groups is high.

671052-3 : AFM NAT security RST the traffic with (FW NAT) dst_trans failed

Solution Article: K50324413

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
In certain cases, destination translation fails with the following message: reset cause '(FW NAT) dst_trans failed'.

Conditions:
This issue may be seen with Source/Destination translation.

Impact:
Destination translation failure. In most of the cases, TMM restart resolves the issue. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Fix addresses a case where one of the fields was not initialized.

670910-2 : Flash AS3 flash.external.ExternalInterface.call() wrapper can fail when loaderInfo object is undefined

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Flash AS3 flash.external.ExternalInterface.call() wrapper can fail when loaderInfo object is undefined.

Conditions:
This might occur when using the following definition:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
<-->xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
<-->width="100%" height="100%"
<-->minWidth="256" minHeight="64"
<-->creationComplete="initApp()">
<--><s:VGroup width="100%" height="100%" verticalAlign="middle" horizontalAlign="center">
<--><--><s:TextInput id="f_output" text="..." width="100%" />
<--><--><fx:Script><![CDATA[
<--><--><-->import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
<--><--><-->private function initApp():void {
<--><--><--><-->f_output.text = ExternalInterface.call("function(v){window.alert(/a\\dc/.toString());return '\\\\Done: '+v+' URL: '+location.href;}", "\\\\Ok?");
<--><--><-->}
<--><-->]]></fx:Script>
<--></s:VGroup>
</s:Application>

Impact:
Flash application malfunction.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
APM Portal Access Rewrite now correctly handles flash.external.ExternalInterface.call() when the loaderInfo object is not defined.

670822-3 : TMM may crash when processing SOCKS data

Solution Article: K55225440

670816-2 : HTTP/HTTPS/TCP Monitor response code for 'last fail reason' can include extra characters

Solution Article: K44519487

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
An HTTP/HTTPS/TCP monitor response code may contain extraneous trailing characters, such as: 'Response Code: 200 (OKxxx)' where the server response code 'OK' is appended with unrelated characters 'xxx', when the server does not include a carriage-return/line-feed after the response status line.

Conditions:
An HTTP/HTTPS/TCP monitor is configured with a receive string, and the server does not include a carriage-return/line-feed in the TCP segments that match the receive string.

Impact:
The monitor status code displays the correct server response code, but with extraneous trailing characters appended. The monitor continues to function and respond to status changes as expected.

Workaround:
Configure HTTP/HTTPS/TCP servers to return a response that includes a carriage-return/line-feed after the response status line and before the receive string.

Fix:
HTTP/HTTPS/TCP monitor response code for 'last fail reason' no longer contains extraneous trailing characters when the server does not include a carriage-return/line-feed in the TCP segments that match the receive string.

670814-2 : Wrong SE Linux label breaks nethsm DNSSEC keys

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
In /var/log/ltm:

(_Common_thales_key) create failed, retry attempt 1 [nfgk_new: Permission denied rfs-sync: error from NFastApp_Connect `(null)': Permission denied mv: cannot stat `/shared/tmp/_Common_thales_key': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `/shared/tmp/_Common_thales_key_req': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `/shared/tmp/_Common_thales_key_selfcert': No such file or directory str[cd /shared/tmp && /opt/nfast/bin/generatekey -b pkcs11 certreq=yes selfcert=yes protect=module size=1024 embedsavefile="_Common_thales_key" plainname="_Common_thales_key" digest=sha256] rfs-sync: error from NFastApp_Connect `(null)': Permission denied rfs-sync: error from NFastApp_Connect `(null)': Permission denied No updates. Update done. Create key pair done. ].

or the output of the following command:

ausearch -m AVC,SELINUX_ERR -ts recent

time->Fri Jun 23 04:38:06 2017
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1498217886.574:24190): arch=c000003e syscall=42 success=no exit=-13 a0=5 a1=7ffd059e2720 a2=6e a3=7ffd059e2470 items=0 ppid=3310 pid=3311 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="generatekey" exe="/shared/nfast/tcl/bin/generatekey" subj=system_u:system_r:mcpd_t:s0 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1498217886.574:24190): avc: denied { write } for pid=3311 comm="generatekey" name="nserver" dev=dm-1 ino=141191 scontext=system_u:system_r:mcpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=sock_file
----
time->Fri Jun 23 04:38:06 2017
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1498217886.600:24191): arch=c000003e syscall=42 success=no exit=-13 a0=3 a1=7ffd9dbc33a0 a2=6e a3=7ffd9dbc30f0 items=0 ppid=3313 pid=3316 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="rfs-sync" exe="/shared/nfast/bin/rfs-sync" subj=system_u:system_r:mcpd_t:s0 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1498217886.600:24191): avc: denied { write } for pid=3316 comm="rfs-sync" name="nserver" dev=dm-1 ino=141191 scontext=system_u:system_r:mcpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=sock_file
----

Conditions:
trying to use a thales nethsm for DNSSEC

Impact:
cannot create DNSSEC keys protected by a thales nethsm

Workaround:
chcon -R --reference=/var/run/rd0.sock /shared/nfast/sockets/

NB: you should also apply the workaround for BZ671337 as well. It's almost certain that if this bug exists, that bug also exists.

Fix:
SE LInux labels no longer prevent the creation of thales-protected nethsm DNSSEC keys

670804-2 : Hardware syncookies, verified-accept, and OneConnect can result in 'verify_accept' assert in server-side TCP

Solution Article: K03163260

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The system experiences a 'verify_accept' assert in server-side TCP.

Conditions:
-- Verified Accept enabled in TCP profile.
-- Hardware syncookies enabled.
-- OneConnect profile on virtual servers.
-- Syncookie threshold crossed.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while TMM restarts.

Workaround:
Disable verified accept when used with OneConnect on a virtual server.

Fix:
Verified accept, OneConnect, and hardware syncookies now work together correctly.

670405-4 : K20486351: glibc vulnerability CVE-2017-1000366:

Solution Article: K20486351

670400-3 : SSH Proxy public key authentication can be circumvented in some cases

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
SSH Proxy public key authentication might be circumvented in some cases, allowing a user without the appropriate private key in to the back-end end SSH server.

Conditions:
Public key authentication is being used to authenticate users.

Note: This issue affects only public key authentication, so if additional forms of authentication are being used, the additional security that they provide will not be impacted.

Impact:
Unauthorized access.

Workaround:
A suggested workaround is to configure the back-end SSH server to require 2-factor authentication, or 3-factor authentication. This can be done by adding both publickey+password and publickey+keyboard-interactive as Required Authentications in the configuration file for the back-end SSH server.

See the list below of supported client method orders. Also, keep in mind that the back-end server must support all 3 authentication methods (public-key, password, and keyboard-interactive), as an existing constraint of the current SSH proxy functionality.

One cosmetic item to note is that, when multi-factor authentication is used, regardless of the result of the validity check of the public-key, the SSH proxy will report a 'failed' authentication to the client. However, the returned 'failed' code is merely cosmetic: the actual result of the validity check is what is used to determine whether or not the authentication succeeded.

-------
Supported client method orders:

publickey,keyboard-interactive
publickey,password
publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

Any other combination of authentication methods will fail.

Fix:
Implemented stricter error handling in authentication checking.

670011-2 : SSL forward proxy does not create the server certchain when ignoring server certificates

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Forward proxy not working correctly when the server certificates are ignored. SSL forward proxy does not create the server certchain when ignoring server certificates, this prevents the client side from trusting the server cert and the SSL handshake hangs and fails after timeout.

Conditions:
-- SSL forward proxy or SSL intercept is configured.
-- Ignore server certificate configured in the server SSL profile.

Impact:
Client cannot establish SSL connection with server due to SSL handshake always timing out.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now generates the server certchain (even when the server SSL profile ignores server certificates) and passes it to the client SSL, so that the client SSL can forge the cert and finish the SSL handshake.

669974-1 : Encoding binary data using ASN1::encode may truncate result

Solution Article: K90395411

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When using ASN1::encode to encode one or more values, and where the encoding of any of these values results in a representation containing a NUL ('\x0') byte, the overall result that is presented to the iRule does not include the entire set of encoded values and is truncated at the first NUL byte.

Conditions:
-- Using ASN1::encode with binary values (e.g., INTEGER).
-- Encoded results contain a NUL ('\x0') byte.

Impact:
Encoding results in the wrong/truncated value.

Workaround:
It is possible to encode the problematic values using an alternative method.

Fix:
ASN1::encode now correctly encodes binary values.

669888-2 : No distinction between IPv4 addresses and IPv6 subnet ::ffff:0:0/96

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The BIG-IP does not differentiate between IPv4 addresses (such as 1.2.3.4) and IPv6 addresses in the prefix ::ffff:0:0/96 (such as ::ffff:102:304, also written ::ffff:1.2.3.4). If you enter such an IPv6 address, the equivalent IPv4 address will be rendered and used.

Conditions:
Any attempt to use an IPv6 address in that subnet.

Impact:
The BIG-IP system will operate as if you entered the IPv4 address.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
The differing addresses now are handled correctly. For most modules, this does not change the functionality at all. AFM is one exception; IPv6 traffic in the ::ffff:0:0/96 subnet will be treated differently than IPv4 traffic.

669818-2 : Higher CPU usage for syslog-ng when a syslog server is down

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Higher CPU usage for syslog-ng when a syslog server is down.

Conditions:
A remote log server is added but it is not available.

Impact:
Potentially higher than expected CPU usage.

Workaround:
To mitigate this issue, use either of the following:
-- Ensure that the remote log server is available.
-- Remove the remote log server from the configuration.

669739-1 : Potential core when using MRF SIP with SCTP

Solution Article: K71963740

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
The system may core when using SCTP with MRF SIP if the outgoing connection receives more messages than it can process.

Conditions:
-- SCTP with MRF SIP configured.
-- Outgoing connection receives more messages than it can process.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
With SCTP with MRF SIP, the system better handles conditions when the outgoing connection receives more messages than it can process, so the system does not core and restart.

669510-2 : When network changes after VPN is established, network access tunnel is closed when network access configuration has 'Allow local DNS servers' and 'Prohibit routing table changes during Network Access connection' options enabled.

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
- When network changes after VPN is established, network access tunnel is closed when network access configuration has 'Allow local DNS servers' and 'Prohibit routing table changes during Network Access connection' options enabled.

Conditions:
- Allow local DNS servers' option is enabled in Network Access configuration.
- Prohibit routing table changes during Network Access connection option is enabled in Network Access configuration.
- Network changes after VPN is established.

Impact:
- Network access tunnel is dropped due to routing table changes.

Workaround:
User needs to connect to VPN again.

669462-1 : Error adding /Common/WideIPs as members to GTM Pool in non-Common partition

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Unable to use Pool Members from /Common/ when outside of /Common/

Conditions:
Adding /Common/WideIPs as members in non-Common GTM Pool

Impact:
Unable to use pool-members from /Common/ when outside of /Common/

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
Fixed issue preventing users from using GTM pool-members within /Common/ on GTM Pools outside of /Common/

669459-2 : Efect of bad connection handle between APMD and memcachd

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
When a connection handle (fd) between apmd and memcachd gets bad (someone else is using or already closed by memcachd), all worker threads gets locked out. A cleaner thread then restart APMD with an assert.

Conditions:
This is difficult to reproduce. It happens if one or more connection handle between apmd worker thread and memcachd gets misused.

Impact:
APMD gets locked down , eventually restart with a core.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Communication between APMD and TMM has been improved to be more tolerant of error conditions.

669415-1 : Flow eviction for hardware-accelerated flow might fail

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
In rare cases, evicting a hardware-accelerated ePVA flow might fail. Under normal conditions, this flow eventually idles out of the ePVA, but if traffic happens to be generated over the flow, then it can stay in the ePVA indefinitely, even if there is no software connection context for this connection.

Conditions:
A virtual server using a FastL4 profile.

Impact:
A connection becomes stuck in the ePVA. Traffic might be disrupted if tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Disable hardware acceleration.

Fix:
This release has updated the process for evicting a connection from the ePVA.

669364-1 : TMM core when server responds fast with server responses such as 404.

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
TMM core when server responds fast with server responses such as 404.

Conditions:
-- FPS gets a request with a WebSafe URL (usually global URL - declared by signatures update).
-- Server response is fast (based on URL/headers).
-- FPS need to take some action on response.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
FPS now handles these conditions without a tmm crash.

669359 : WebSafe might cause connections to hang

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
In a loaded environment, FPS might free a connection context without cleaning up the state.

Conditions:
This occurs in a loaded environment (xoff events present).

Impact:
A connection might stall until abandoned by client.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
when freeing a connection context, FPS will clear internal egress state.

669341 : Category Lookup by Subject.CN will result in a reset

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Category Lookup Agent is unable to find the Subject.CN, so it initiates an SSL Handshake failure.

==> /var/log/apm <==
crit tmm[11181]: 01790602:2: [C] 10.20.100.1:11980 -> 10.11.10.101:443: (ERR_NOT_FOUND) Error processing URL Classification query from CatEngine

Conditions:
Category Lookup agent configured to use Subject.CN. May also apply if a Category Lookup agent is configured to use SNI, but the client does not send an SNI, resulting in the agent trying to use the Subject.CN.

Impact:
Cannot use Subject.CN as a data source for category lookup agent.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The category lookup agent is now able to find the Subject.CN.

669288-3 : Cannot run tmsh utils unix-* commands in Appliance mode when /shared/f5optics/images does not exist.

Solution Article: K76152943

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
From tmsh, running util unix-ls /var/log fails with the following error:

exception: (Failed to canonicalize "/shared/f5optics/images") (util/RealpathHelper.cpp, line 49), continuing...
Data Input Error: /var/log is not an accessible directory for the current mode.

Conditions:
-- A BIG-IP system configured for Appliance mode.
-- Upgrading from a pre-v12.x to v12.x or later.
-- Using a platform that does not have a /shared/f5optics/images directory.

These include the following BIG-IP blades and appliances:
B4400, i4x00, i10x00, i2x00, i7x00, i5x00

Impact:
There is no shell access to the file system when the BIG-IP system is in Appliance mode. This is the intended purpose of Appliance mode. Therefore, unix-* commands are the only way to list directories, and perform other operations specific to the operating system.

Workaround:
To work around this issue, create the /shared/f5optics/images directory. To do so, do the following:

1. Boot the BIG-IP system into single-user mode.

2. Create the directory /shared/f5optics/images with the following command:
mkdir -m 777 -p /shared/f5optics/images.

3. Reboot the BIG-IP system, and allow it to start up normally.

Fix:
The reported exception does not occur, and unix-* commands commands issued in Appliance mode run as expected.

669268 : Failover in the same availability zone of AWS may fail when AWS services are intermittently available.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Intermittently available AWS services may lead to failure of curl requests to AWS or ec2 tools commands, resulting in failure of failover. As a result, public EIPs (for virtual servers) might remain pointing to the standby BIG-IP system.

Conditions:
AWS services are intermittently available.

Impact:
Failure of failover. Traffic will be routed to the standby BIG-IP system and lost.

Workaround:
Manually fail the systems over till failover succeeds at the desired BIG-IP system.

669262-2 : [GUI][ZoneRunner] reverse zones should be treated case insensitive when creating resource record

Solution Article: K91122850

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
Creating a reverse zone in ZoneRunner ending not exactly as .arpa but with other case variations like .ARPA, resulting that zone is not treated as reverse zone.

PTR is not available from the 'Type' dropbox menu when creating new resource record for that zone:
DNS :: Zones : ZoneRunner : Resource Record List :: New Resource Record.

Conditions:
Creating a reverse zone in ZoneRunner ending not exactly as .arpa but with other case variations like .ARPA.

Impact:
Cannot create PTR resource record for the created reverse zones.

Workaround:
Create reverse zones exactly ending with .arpa.

669255-2 : An enabled sFlow receiver can cause poor TMM performance on certain BIG-IP platforms

Solution Article: K20100613

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
If the BIG-IP configuration includes at least one enabled sFlow receiver, certain platforms will experience poor TMM performance. Symptoms will include one or more of the following:

- Higher than normal ping latency to the BIG-IP Self-IP addresses.
- Higher than normal latency for applications flowing through BIG-IP virtual servers.
- TMM clock advanced messages in the /var/log/ltm file.
- Continuous activation and then quick deactivation of the idle enforcer for all TMM instances in the /var/log/kern.log file.

Conditions:
The BIG-IP configuration must include at least one enabled sFlow receiver (it doesn't matter whether this is reachable or not) and the platform type must be one of the following:

- BIG-IP i10000 series
- BIG-IP i7000 series
- BIG-IP i5000 series
- BIG-IP i4000 series
- BIG-IP i2000 series
- VIPRION B4450 blade

Impact:
The BIG-IP system operates at a suboptimal performance level.

Workaround:
If the sFlow receiver is not strictly necessary for the correct functioning of your deployment, this can be disabled or removed to work around the issue.

Fix:
Performance is no longer degraded on certain platforms when the configuration includes enabled sFlow receivers.

669154-1 : Creating new invalid SAML IdP configuration object may cause tmm restart in rare cases.

Solution Article: K25342114

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Adding new SAML IdP configuration object containing empty attribute values via tmsh may cause tmm to restart.

Conditions:
New SSO SAML configuration contains one or more attribute values containing a session variable, following by another empty value "", for example:

multi-values { "%{session.ad.last.attr.name}" "" }

Note: This is not a valid configuration: empty values must not be provided in the list of SAML attributes.

Impact:
TMM may restart when new configuration is added. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Remove empty attribute values from configuration.

Fix:
SAML object validation has been improved so that empty SAML SSO object attribute values will no longer be accepted.

669025-1 : Exclude the trusted anchor certificate in hash algorithm selection when Forward Proxy forges a certificate

Solution Article: K11425420

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SSL Forward Proxy signs a forged certificate with a hash algorithm. This selected hash algorithm is the weakest algorithm from the certificates in the server certificate chain except the self-signed certificate.

Some of the intermediate CA certificates in the cert chain use the SHA1 hash algorithm. This kind of intermediate CAs usually is are the BIG-IP system's ca-bundle. BIG-IP receives the cert chain including the intermediate CA and forges the cert with SHA1, which is rejected by some web clients.

Impact:
Clients cannot access the web server due to SSL handshake failure.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
This fix excludes trusted CA certificates in hash algorithm selection. This may prevent forged certificate from using SHA1 hash algorithm.

668883 : FQDN pool member status may become out-of-sync when enabled/disabled through GUI

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
After toggling enable/disable on an FQDN pool member through the GUI, an FQDN pool member status may become 'out-of-sync', and the pool member might process connections opposite to its status. Specifically: 'disabled' might accept connections, and 'enabled' might not accept connections. In this state, the FQDN pool member appears to be exactly 'one-message-behind' for an enable/disable status change made in the GUI.

The FQDN pool member status for enabled/disabled is always correctly displayed in the GUI and in tmsh, and behavior is correctly restored after a system reboot. Other pool members are unaffected.

Conditions:
-- BIG-IP systems configured for high availability (HA).
-- At least three members within an FQDN pool.
-- Use the GUI to toggle enable/disable state on a FQDN pool member.

Impact:
The FQDN pool member does not correctly participate in receiving connections to the pool when in this error state. Other pool members remain unaffected.

Workaround:
Change FQDN pool to statically assign members.

Fix:
Toggling FQDN pool member between 'enable/disable' correctly changes that member's participation for accepting connections within its parent pool. This issue is resolved by the FQDNv2 feature re-implementation in this version of the software.

668802-3 : GTM link graphs fail to display in the GUI

Solution Article: K83392557

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When a BIG-IP administrator tries to view the GTM link graphs in the GUI, the system reports 'General database error retrieving information'.

statsd reports an error in /var/log/ltm

err statsd[6318]: 011b030d:3: Graph '/Common/Link_AS394043' not found

Conditions:
-- BIG-IP DNS/GTM is licensed and provisioned.
-- BIG-IP DNS/GTM links are configured.
-- Trying to view the GTM link graphs in the GUI.

Impact:
Unable to view BIG-IP DNS/GTM link graphs.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The GTM graphs are available as expected.

668623-5 : macOS Edge client fails to detect correct system language for regions other than USA

Solution Article: K85991425

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
macOS Edge client fails to detect correct system language for regions other than USA.

Conditions:
-- macOS Sierra.
-- Non-English language (e.g., Korean with different regions).

Impact:
Incorrect customization of Edge client for certain items, such as: logo, banner color, banner text color, and tray icon type.

Workaround:
Run one of the following command on the Terminal and re-launch Edge client:

For English:
$ defaults write -globalDomain AppleLanguages -array "en" "en-US"

For German:
$ defaults write -globalDomain AppleLanguages -array "de" "de-US"

For Korean:
$ defaults write -globalDomain AppleLanguages -array "ko" "ko-US"

For Japanese:
$ defaults write -globalDomain AppleLanguages -array "ja" "ja-US"

For French:
$ defaults write -globalDomain AppleLanguages -array "fr" "fr-US"

For Spanish:
$ defaults write -globalDomain AppleLanguages -array "es" "es-US"

For Chinese traditional:
$ defaults write -globalDomain AppleLanguages -array "zh-Hant" "zh-Hant-TW" "zh-Hant-US"

For Chinese simplified:
$ defaults write -globalDomain AppleLanguages -array "zh-Hans" "zh-Hans-US"

Fix:
Customization of the following items for Edge client now correctly reflect the region's language selection.

-- Edge client logo.
-- Banner color.
-- Banner text color.
-- Tray icon.

668522-1 : bigd might try to read from a file descriptor that is not ready for read

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The bigd process might consume excessive CPU resources or monitor probes might be erroneously marked as failed.

Conditions:
External monitors are in use. External monitors include user-defined external monitors as well as built-in external monitors (for example, SNMP, LDAP, etc.).

Impact:
The bigd process might consume excessive CPU resources for for various amounts of time.

Single monitor probes might fail. Depending upon the timing of these failures, it might be possible to see monitor flapping when multiple probes for a specific monitored object happen to fail.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
An issue was resolved where the bigd process might consume excessive CPU resources or monitor probes might be erroneously marked as failed.

668521-2 : Bigd might stall while waiting for an external monitor process to exit

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The bigd process restarts due to a hearbeat failure. /var/log/ltm will contain a message similar to:
warning sod[5444]: 01140029:4: HA daemon_heartbeat bigd fails action is restart.

Conditions:
External monitors are in use. External monitors include user-defined external monitors as well as built-in external monitors (for example, SNMP, LDAP, etc.)

High system load makes this more likely to occur.

Impact:
bigd will restart due to a heartbeat failure and monitoring will be interrupted.

Workaround:
Mitigations:
-- If possible, reduce the system load on the BIG-IP system.
-- If possible, use a built-in monitor type.

Fix:
bigd no longer stalls while waiting for an external monitor process to exit.

668503-3 : Edge Client fails to reconnect to virtual server after disabling Network Adapter

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
1. Connect to an APM Virtual Server.
2. Disable Network Adapter.
3. Enable the Network Adapter.

Edge Client fails to reconnect.

Conditions:
Network Adapter is disabled and re-enabled.

Impact:
Edge Client does not re-establish VPN when Network Adapter is re-enabled.

Workaround:
Disconnect and Connect Edge Client.

Fix:
Edge Client now successfully reconnects to virtual server after disabling and enabling Network Adapter.

668501-2 : HTTP2 does not handle some URIs correctly

Solution Article: K07369970

668419-1 : ClientHello sent in multiple packets results in TCP connection close

Solution Article: K53322151

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When the BIG-IP system receives ClientHello messages in multiple fragments, and the first fragment length is smaller than 8 bytes, SSL might process it as a non-SSL packet.

Conditions:
-- The system receives ClientHello messages in multiple fragments.
-- The first fragment length is smaller than 8 bytes.

Impact:
SSL might process the first fragment as a non-SSL packet, and discard it, and then tear down the TCP connection.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Now, if the system receives the ClientHello message in multiple fragments, and the first fragment is smaller than 8 bytes, the system waits for the whole SSL packet to arrive before processing it.

668352-2 : High Speed Logging unbalance in log distribution for multiple pool destination.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Remote High Speed Logging may send logs in an imbalance when configured to use multiple logging pools.
The imbalance may occur if the logging destination remained idle for a while (no logs sent) after initial configuration.

Conditions:
-- Remote High Speed Logging destination configured with multiple pools.
-- The logging destination idle after initial configuration for more than 5 seconds.

Impact:
-- Log distribution imbalance.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Logs distributed equally on destination pools.

668252-2 : TMM crash in PEM_DIAMETER component

Solution Article: K22784428

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
TMM crashes when the route to PCRF is lost.

Conditions:
-- PEM establishes connection with the diameter endpoint (Gx / Gy).
-- The route to the diameter endpoint is lost (interface down / route deleted).

Impact:
TMM diameter module tries to communicate, does not handle the error, and crashes. Module reboot. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Mitigation: Ensure that the network interface configuration routing diameter packet is not manually brought down.

No workaround for externally triggered failures.

Fix:
The system now handles connections established with the diameter endpoint when the route to PCRF is lost.

668196-2 : Connection limit continues to be enforced with least-connections and pool member flap, member remains down

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
In rare circumstances while using least-connections load balancing with a connection limit applied, if a pool member is at the connection limit and the node is stopped and restarted, the node will remain marked down.

Conditions:
This occurs under the following circumstances:
- Least Connections (node or member).
- Connection limit is set.
- Then a pool member hits the connection limit.
- The pool member is then marked down then up (e.g., manually).

Impact:
Pool member remains marked down.

Workaround:
This condition is very rare but if it occurs you can try removing the pool member or node and re-adding it.

Fix:
Connection limit is now correctly enforced with least-connections and pool member flap, so the member no longer incorrectly remains down.

668184-1 : Huge values are shown in the AVR statistics for ASM violations

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Huge values are shown in the AVR statistics for ASM violations.

Conditions:
Out-of memory-condition in the ASM. Some other extreme conditions might also cause this behavior.

Impact:
ASM violation numbers are incorrectly reported.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
An issue with bd sending wrong numbers to AVR was fixed.

668181-2 : Policy automatic learning mode changes to manual after failover

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Policy automatic learning mode changes to manual when a failover occurs.

Conditions:
-- ASM provisioned.
-- Device group with ASM policy sync configured for multi-blade devices.
-- ASM Policy is in automatic learning mode.
-- A failover occurs.

Impact:
The policy changes from automatic learning mode to manual.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Policy automatic learning mode no longer changes to manual when a failover occurs. Automatic learning mode will now be disabled only in active/active configurations.

668129-1 : BIG-IP as SAML SP support for multiple signing certificates in SAML metadata from external identity providers.

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Certain SAML implementations support configuration of multiple signing certificates to be used for signing SAML messages. In these deployments different signing certificates could be used when certificate rotation takes place. Until now BIG-IP as SP only supported single signing certificate from external IdPs.
When certificate rotation happens on external IdP, BIG-IP signing verification certificates have to be updated.

Conditions:
External IdP advertises multiple signing certificates in SAML metadata.

Impact:
When external IdP starts using new signing certificate previously advertised in metadata, authentication on BIG-IP as SAML SP will fail until administrator adjusts configuration to specify new signature validation certificate on appropriate SAML IdP connector object.

Workaround:
Signing certificates on BIG-IP as SAML SP can be reconfigured manually.

Fix:
BIG-IP as SP now supports multiple signing certificates advertised by external identity providers.

668048-1 : TMM memory leak when manually enabling/disabling pool member used as HSL destination

Solution Article: K02551403

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
High Speed Logging fails to free an allocated cache memory resulting in memory leak. A small linear increase in mds_btree_nodes memory utilization may occur.

Conditions:
- Remote High Speed Logging configured.
- Server-side connections dropped or closed. OR
- High Speed Logging pool members removed.

Impact:
Increase in mds_btree_nodes memory utilization.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
High Speed Logging frees allocated memory correctly.

668006-1 : Suspended 'after' command leads to assertion if there are multiple pending events

Solution Article: K12015701

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TMM crashes when an iRule has multi-parking commands including command after.

Conditions:
-- iRule has multi-parking commands.
-- Command after is used multiple times in the iRule.

Note: The exact condition of crashing tmm is not definitive, but when the above situation is met, it could trigger this crash.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Depending on the iRule, (e.g., script that uses command after very heavily, very often), the usages can be combined:

after 100
after 200 { some script }

can be combined to after 300 { the script }

Fix:
Suspended 'after' command no longer leads to assertion if there are multiple pending events

667922 : Alternative unicode encoding in JSON objects not being parsed correctly

Solution Article: K44692860

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
JSON content might be blocked when unicode encoding is used in one of the JSON nodes.

Conditions:
Configured ASM Policy with JSON profile.

Impact:
False positive blocked request.

Workaround:
Disable metachars checks in JSON profile.

Fix:
The JSON parser now handles unicode sequences correctly.

667892-2 : FPS: BLFN inheritance won't take effect until GUI refresh

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
1. Create fps profile with a "Additional function to be run before JavaScript load" (BLFN) configured.
2. Clone this profile.
3. In the cloned profile choose another profile to defaults from (where there is no BLFN).
4. Save configuration.

Conditions:
- Current profile has a BLFN configured.
- New parent profile has no BLFN.

Impact:
The original BLFN is still configured on the profile (should have inherited the empty BLFN from parent profile).

Workaround:
1. Use tmsh.
2. Refresh before save.

Fix:
Correct BLFN inheritance logic in GUI.

667872-1 : Websafe's 'Apply cookies to base domain' feature doesn't work for non standard ports

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
'Apply cookies to base domain' feature doesn't work for non standard ports.

Conditions:
'Apply cookies to base domain' is enabled and
connection is over non-standard ports (not 80, 443, etc.).

Impact:
Cookies won't be applied to base domain, thus WebSafe functionality will be broken and missing cookie alerts will be sent.

Workaround:
Use only standard ports.

Fix:
FPS now correctly parses base-domain, including port (if exists).

667707-2 : LTM policy associations with virtual servers are not ConfigSynced correctly

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The association of Local Traffic Policies to virtual servers do not synchronize properly.

This can result in configuration sync failures with error messages including:

-- 01070635:3: The policy (/Common/asm_auto_l7_policy__vs_27) is referenced by one or more virtuals.
-- Configuration error: The bot-defense-asm profile /Common/asm_policy_1 was added to virtual server /Common/vs1 but it does not match the asm-controlling policy. The bot-defense-asm profile is added to the virtual server automatically.
-- 010716fd:3: Virtual Server '/Common/vs' cannot contain policies with conflicting controls.

In other circumstances, BIG-IP systems report themselves as 'in sync' despite a virtual server having different local traffic policies associated.

Under certain circumstances, configuration sync fails after an LTM policy is removed from a virtual server and deleted.

Conditions:
This occurs under the following conditions:

-- Full sync operations (e.g., 'full-load-on-sync' or 'force-full-load-push').

And either of the following:
-- Configuration changes made where local traffic policies are removed or added from a virtual server.

-- Configuration changes made where a local traffic policy is removed from a virtual server, and then the virtual server is deleted.

Impact:
Configuration fails to sync, or devices report 'In Sync' but have different LTM policies associated with virtual servers.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Configuration sync is successful.

667662-1 : Autolasthop does not work for PPTP-GRE traffic.

Solution Article: K06579313

Component: Carrier-Grade NAT

Symptoms:
Autolasthop does not work for PPTP-GRE traffic.

Conditions:
Autolasthop configured for client ingress VLAN, serving PPTP-ALG traffic.

Impact:
PPTP-ALG traffic through the BIG-IP system.

Workaround:
Create static routes to return PPTP-GRE traffic back to the client network.

Fix:
Autolasthop setting works correctly for PPTP-GRE traffic.

667560-3 : FQDN nodes: Pool members can become unknown (blue) after monitor configuration is changed

Solution Article: K69205908

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A pool member configured through an FQDN node and which has multiple associated monitors may become unknown (blue) after a monitor rule change to one of its associated monitors. The expected behavior is that the node should remain 'green' if monitoring is successful with the new rule, but the node may become unknown (blue) until bigd is restarted.

Conditions:
A pool member is configured through an FQDN node, and has multiple associated monitors, and a monitor rule change is made to one of the associated monitors.

Impact:
The pool member status correctly reflects whether monitoring is successful (green) or the pool member is unknown (blue), but the changed monitor rule may not take effect until bigd is restarted.

Workaround:
When making changes to a monitor rule associated with a pool member configured through FQDN, verify the node remains monitored (green or checking), or restart bigd. Alternatively, change monitor rules within the configuration file, and reload the configuration.

Fix:
Pool members configured through FQDN nodes and with multiple associated monitors continue to be monitored after a monitor rule change to one of the associated monitors. This issue is resolved by the FQDNv2 feature re-implementation in this version of the software.

667469-1 : Higher than expected CPU usage when using DNS Cache

Solution Article: K35324588

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
CPU usage shows higher than expected usage when using the DNS Cache.

Conditions:
Usage of any of the 3 DNS Cache types, particularly on chassis with multiple blades.

Impact:
Higher than expected CPU usage.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
Improvements have been made to the efficiency of the DNS Cache inter-tmm mirroring. These efficiencies may result in better CPU utilization and/or higher responses per second.

667405-2 : Fragemented IPsec encrypted packets with fragmented original payloads may cause memory leak in the TMM.

Solution Article: K61251939

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When the BIG-IP system receives fragmented IPsec encrypted packets that contain fragmented IP packets, memory leaks may occur in the TMM.

Conditions:
The BIG-IP system receives fragmented IPsec encrypted packets that contain fragmented IP packets.

Impact:
Memory leak in the TMM.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
No memory leak in the TMM.

667404-2 : Fragmented IP over IPsec tunnels might capture mcp flows and provoke restarts

Solution Article: K77576404

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
If fragmented IP packets match an IPsec policy, then get forwarded to another tmm for actual processing, the flow lookup might accidentally grab a stale flow_key for another connflow, including internal MCP flows. When that happens, if IPsec does tunnel those flows, internal MCP heartbeats later miss and cause tmm restarts.

Conditions:
-- Packet fragmentation.
-- Packets are serviced by IPsec due to a matching policy for those packets.

Impact:
Tmm restarts. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
You can prevent this using either of the following methods:
-- If you can, arrange that fragmented packets are re-assembled before reaching IPsec policy handling.
-- Modify MTU configuration so fragmentation does not happen.

Note: There is no mitigation when fragmented packets reach IPsec and need forwarding from one tmm to another.

Fix:
Now fragmented packets are handled correctly, and other flows cannot experience interference.

667318-3 : BIG-IP DNS/GTM link graphs fail to display in the GUI.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Conditions:
-- BIG-IP DNS/GTM is licensed and provisioned.
-- BIG-IP DNS/GTM links are configured.

Impact:
Unable to view BIG-IP DNS/GTM link graphs.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
BIG-IP DNS/GTM link graphs are now available in the GUI.

667304-1 : Logon page shows 'Save Password' checkbox even if 'Allow Password Caching' is not enabled

Solution Article: K68108551

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
'Save Password' checkbox is shown even if the feature is not enabled.

Conditions:
-- APM end user tries to authenticate to APM/BIG-IP Server.
-- 'Save Password' is not enabled.

Impact:
APM end user receives the login page with 'Save Password' checkbox. Checking the box has no effect unless 'Save Password' is enabled.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
'Save Password' checkbox is not shown unless the feature is enabled.

667278-3 : DSC connections between BIG-IP units may fail to establish

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The device service clustering (DSC) connection between two BIG-IP units may fail to establish. One unit will log messages similar to the following example:

-- err mcpd[7912]: 01071af4:3: Inbound CMI connection from IP (192.168.100.1) denied because it came from VLAN (v1542), not from expected VLAN (tmm).

While the unit at the other end of the connection will log messages similar to the following example:

-- notice mcpd[5730]: 01071432:5: CMI peer connection established to 192.168.200.1 port 6699 after 0 retries
May 31 20:58:04 BIG-IP-c-sea notice mcpd[5730]: 0107143c:5: Connection to CMI peer 192.168.200.1 has been removed

Conditions:
This issue occurs when the Self-IP addresses used for Config-Sync by the two BIG-IP units are not in the same IP subnet, and special routing is configured between the BIG-IP units. Examples of special routing include a gateway pool or dynamic routing configurations with multiple routes to the same destination (i.e., ECMP routing).

Impact:
Config-Sync and device discovery operations will fail between affected units.

Workaround:
You can work around this issue by using Self-IP addresses for Config-Sync that are on the same IP subnet or rely on simpler routing to achieve connectivity (i.e., a single route).

Fix:
Config-Sync and device discovery operations no longer fail.

667237-3 : Edge Client logs the routing and IP tables repeatedly

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Edge Client logs the routing and IP tables repeatedly - in each reconnecting attempt.

Conditions:
Edge Client is in reconnecting state and gateway is reachable. However, APM server is not reachable/responding.

Impact:
It fills up the log file with information that is not useful.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
When Edge Client is in re-connection state and the APM server is not reachable/responding, skip logging the Routing/IP tables in each reconnecting attempts.

667223 : The merge option for the tmsh load sys config command removes existing nested objects

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Nested objects are removed when newer objects are merged in.

Configuration objects can contain nested objects. The merge option for tmsh load sys config command expects the nested-objects passed in to be merged alongside existing objects.

example:

Initial configuration

[root@plate:Active:Standalone] config # tmsh list ltm pool
    ltm pool test-pool-mcconfig {
        members {
            test-mc1:http {
                address 10.13.14.15
                priority-group 1
                session monitor-enabled
                state checking
            }
            test-mc2:http {
                address 10.13.14.16
                priority-group 4
                session monitor-enabled
                state down
            }
        }
        monitor tcp
    }

Run load merge command:

    [root@plate:Active:Standalone] config # tmsh -m
    root@(plate)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# load sys config merge from-terminal
    Enter configuration. Press CTRL-D to submit or CTRL-C to cancel.
    ltm pool test-pool-mcconfig {
     members {
      test-mc2:http {
       priority-group 0
      }
     }
    }
    Loading configuration...
    root@(plate)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# ^D

New configuration, not merged:

    [root@plate:Active:Standalone] config # tmsh list ltm pool
    ltm pool test-pool-mcconfig {
        members {
            test-mc2:http {
                address 10.13.14.16
                session monitor-enabled
                state down
            }
        }
        monitor tcp
    }

Conditions:
Execute tmsh load sys config merge from-terminal command.

The configuration contains nested objects. The configuration that is being merged in contains nested objects of the same type as the existing configuration.

Impact:
Configuration loss: Post merge the existing nested configuration objects are deleted.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The behavior for the merge option of tmsh load sys config is corrected. The nested objects in the existing configuration are not deleted.

667173 : 13.1.0 cannot join a device group with 13.1.0.1

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
13.1.0.1 cannot form device trust with a 13.1.0 device.

Conditions:
A device running 13.1.0 wanting to establish device trust with a device running 13.1.0.1 or vice versa.

Impact:
Cannot form Device Trust.

Workaround:
13.1.0 cannot initially form device trust with a 13.1.0.1 device. However, if you establish trust from the 13.1.0.1 device and then bring in the 13.1.0 device from 13.1.0.1, you can mitigate this issue. Once trust is formed, there should be no issue.

Fix:
13.1.0.1 now can form device trust with a 13.1.0 device.

667148-1 : Config load or upgrade can fail when loading GTM objects from a non-/Common partition

Solution Article: K02500042

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
GTM configuration fails to load.

Conditions:
GTM config referencing non-/Common partition objects from /Common.

Impact:
GTM configuration fails to load, which may keep a system from becoming active

Workaround:
No workaround.

Fix:
Fixed issue preventing GTM configurations from loading when non-Common partitioned items present.

667138-1 : LTM 12.1.2 HF1 - Upgrade to 12.1.2 HF1 fails with err "folder does not exist"★

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
After upgrade from 10.2.4 to 12.1.2, full config load fails.

Conditions:
The pre-upgrade version must be 10.2.4 and the pre-upgrade config must have user-defined partitions.

Impact:
After upgrade, if changes are made to the running config (in memory; not on disk), then the config files on disk from upgrade cannot be restored.

Workaround:
10.2.4 config on upgrade is stored at /config/bigpipe/. So, a workaround is to load defaults, then merge the original config using bigpipe.

/usr/libexec/bigpipe merge /config/bigpipe/*.conf

Fix:
Full load after upgrade from 10.2.4 now succeeds.

667028-1 : DNS Express does not run on i11000 platforms with htsplit disabled.

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
tmm processes enter a restart loop when trying to run DNS Express (DNSX) on i11000 platforms with htsplit disabled.

Conditions:
-- i11000 platform.
-- htsplit disabled (sys db scheduler.splitplanes.ltm set to false).
-- Trying to run DNSX.

Impact:
tmm processes enter a restart loop. In this condition, DNSX does not run, though other DNS functions are unaffected.

Workaround:
Enable htsplit using the following command:

modify sys db scheduler.splitplanes.ltm value true

Fix:
tmm no longer cores under these conditions. However, you cannot use DNSX with htsplit disabled; htsplit must be enabled.

Note: DNSX works as expected with htsplit enabled, both before and after the fix.

666986-2 : Filter by Support ID is not working in Request Log

Solution Article: K50320144

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
In some cases the Support ID of a request might be shorter than 19 digits. In this case filter by Support ID does not work in Request Logs.

Conditions:
-- Support ID is shorter than 19 digits.
-- Trying to filter by Support ID.

Impact:
Filter by Support ID is not displayed in filter bar and does not affect the list.

Workaround:
You can try to filter by last 4 digits of Support ID. Although that does not replace filter by Support ID functionality, it might help.

Fix:
Filter by Support ID works for any length but 4 digits (in this case search uses the last 4 digits; also a 4-digit Support ID is not a realistic occurrence).

666790-2 : Use HSB HiGig MAC reset to recover both FCS errors and link instability

Solution Article: K06619044

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
In addition to HiGig Link instability, FCS errors can be seen on internal switch and HSB Higig link. This is likely some PHY-related issues and can cause instability in communication links.

One symptom associated with this might be that a blade cannot become active and join the cluster.

Conditions:
FCS errors reported in tmm/hsbe2_internal_lbb_hgm. Traffic failure observed on some VIPs or self IPs.

Impact:
Link unstable, frame loss.
TMOS MPI and CDP packet loss and internal blade communication issues.

HSB lockup and accumulated FCS errors observed from stats and log.

Workaround:
A switch port reset might be used to recover this failure. Note, however: that procedure might cause potential HSB lockups.

Fix:
FCS errors and link instability no longer occur.

666689-1 : Occasional "profile not found" errors following activate access policy

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Immediately following the applying of a modified access policy it is possible for some profiles to disappear.
It is transient and within a minute or two the profiles are available again.

Conditions:
Clicking "apply access policy" in the GUI or using tmsh to increment snapshot ids will clear the list of profiles and policies and then rebuild those lists. Authentication requests using profiles or policies not yet rebuilt returned the "profile not found" error.

Impact:
Some authentication attempts fail while the lists get rebuilt.
Retrying the authentication a minute or two later succeeds.

Workaround:
Retry the authentication.

Fix:
Applying Access Policies in APM is improved to avoid a short dead time between when the old policies are removed and the new policies are activated.

666454-2 : Edge client on Macbook Pro with touch bar cannot connect to VPN after OS X v10.12.5 update

Solution Article: K05520115

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Edge client running on Macbook Pro 2016 with a touch bar interface cannot connect to VPN in a full tunneling configuration with 'Prohibit routing table modification' option selected.

Edge client's svpn.log shows an error entry similar to
2017-05-18,13:55:17:000, 16637,16638,svpn, 1, , 870, CMacOSXRouteTable::UpdateIpForwardEntry2(), EXCEPTION - write failed, 22, Invalid argument.

Conditions:
This occurs when all of the following conditions are met:
1) Edge client is running on Macbook Pro that has the iBridge interface (e.g., one with the touch bar).
2) VPN is configured in full tunneling configuration
3) Mac OS X version is v10.12.5.

Note: You can find the interface on the Macbook Pro in the Network Utility under the Info tab.

Impact:
VPN connection will fail.

Workaround:
Use one of the following workarounds:
- Disable 'Prohibit Routing table change' in the network access configuration.
- Enable 'Allow access to local subnets'.
- Enable a split tunneling configuration.

666315 : Global SNAT sets TTL to 255 instead of decrementing

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Global SNAT sets the TTL to 255 instead of decrementing.

Conditions:
Global SNAT configured.

Impact:
Possible routing loop.

Workaround:
No workaround.

Fix:
TTL for global SNAT now gets decremented.

666160-1 : L7 Policy reconfiguration causes a slow memory leak

Solution Article: K63132146

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When a virtual server with a L7 policy is reconfigured, a small amount of memory is leaked.

Conditions:
A virtual server with L7 policies has a configuration change.

Impact:
The memory leak will reduce the amount of resources for the TMM.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
L7 Policies no longer leak memory when a virtual server using them is reconfigured.

666112-1 : TMM 'DoS Layer 7' memory leak during config load

Solution Article: K53708490

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
Degraded performance; potential eventual out-of-memory.

Note: The 'DoS Layer 7' allocations increase by 'TMM count * #domains' after each config load.

Tip: You can watch the watch the 'DoS Layer 7' allocations increase on a shell on the BIG-IP system using the following command:
# watch -n1 -- 'tmctl -s name,allocated,max_allocated,cur_allocs memory_usage_stat | grep -E "^name|---|^DoS Layer 7 "'

Conditions:
-- Provision ASM.
-- Make sure the built-in 'security dos bot-signature' are added to the config.
-- Load the config from another shell using the following command:
tmsh load sys config

Impact:
Degraded performance; potential eventual out-of-memory.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Fix memory leak after each config load.

666058-2 : XenApp 6.5 published icons are not displayed on APM Webtop

Solution Article: K86091857

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
While publishing XenApp 6.5 resources through APM Webtop, some applications are not displaying the icons correctly.

VDI Error logs are seen as follows:
failed to handle '/f5vdi/citrix/icon/': Incorrect bitmap size.

Conditions:
-- XenApp 6.5 is used with their rollup hotfix 6 or 7.
-- Some of the third-party applications more icon bitmap information than expected.

Impact:
Icons are not displayed on the APM Webtop

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Now APM Webtop correctly displays Citrix XenApp icons correctly regardless of the size of the bitmap data.

666035-1 : Obscuring secrets in files collected by qkview

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Some config files collected by qkview may have clear text secrets.

Conditions:
Run qkview and extract to see files with cleartext secrets

Impact:
Plaintext secrets are uploaded to iHealth.

Workaround:
To workaround this issue, follow this procedure:
1. Untar qkview file.
2. Obfuscate secrets from the affected file.
3. Recreate qkview file to upload.

For more information, see K55559493: Obfuscating sensitive data in a QKView file :: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K55559493.

Qkview obfuscation
==================
-- Specific information from text files collected by qkview can be replaced/obscured.
-- Configuration file is in JSON format and it requires regex search pattern and replacement text for given files.

  Config file
  ===========
  /etc/qkview_obfuscate.conf

  Config Template
  ===============
  {
    "filename_regex1":
       {
           "search_regex11": "replace_text11",
           "search_regex12": "replace_text12",
           "search_regex13": "replace_text13" <= No comma after the last element.
       },
    "filename_regex2":
       {
           "search_regex21": "replace_text21",
           "search_regex22": "replace_text22",
           "search_regex23": "replace_text23"
       } <= No comma after the last node.
  }

Notes
=====
-- Search-and-replace rules are applied to the files that match the filename regex.

-- Filename and search_pattern are the regex. JSON special characters need to be escaped in the regex. (JSON special chars list :: http://json.org/.)

   Example:
       search_pattern "bindpw\s+(\S+)" should be "bindpw\\s+(\\S+)".
       ('\' is escaped by '\\'.)

-- If a filename matches multiple filename regexes, all rules of those files' regexes are applied to that file.

   Example:
        {
            "abc123\\.conf": {
                "password\\s+(\\S+)": "password ####",
                "passphrase\\s+(\\S+)": "passphrase ####"
            },
            "abc\\w+\\.conf": {
                "bindpw\\s+(\\S+)": "bindpw dummypasswd"
            }
        }

     Because abc123.conf matches both filename regexes, all three rules are applied to abc123.conf.

-- Obfuscation works only on text files. Compressed files are ignored.

-- The qkview command fails if the config file is syntactically incorrect.

Sample config
=============
  {
      "abc123\\.conf": {
          "password\\s+(\\S+)": "password ####",
          "passphrase\\s+(\\S+)": "passphrase ####"
      },
      "myapp?\\w+\\.conf": {
          "bindpw\\s+(\\S+)": "bindpw dummypasswd"
      }
  }

  "abc123\\.conf" - matches abc123.conf
  "myapp?\\w+\\.conf - matches myapp*.conf

666032-3 : Secure renegotiation is set while data is not available.

Solution Article: K05145506

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Secure renegotiation is set while data is not available, which causes a crash in certain connections.

Conditions:
This occurs when handling SSL secure renegotiation in certain connections.

Impact:
Crashes happen to certain SSL connections.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Secure renegotiation is set while data is not available no longer causes a crash in certain connections.

665924-1 : The HTTP2 and SPDY filters may cause a TMM crash in complicated scenarios

Solution Article: K24847056

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A TMM crash caused by a double-free of memory within the HTTP2 and SPDY filters. This crash could occur in other TMM sub-systems unrelated to HTTP2 or SPDY.

Conditions:
The HTTP2 or SPDY filter is used, together with many other TMM modules. This situation is difficult to trigger.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The HTTP2 and SPDY filters will no longer double-free memory in rare situations.

665905 : Signature System corruption from specific ASU prevents ASU load after upgrade

Solution Article: K83305000

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
After loading Attack Signature Update "ASM-SignatureFile_20170403_145743.im" on 11.5.4 HF2 (or later) and upgrading to certain software versions, attempts to perform Signature Update fail.

Conditions:
-- Loading Attack Signature Update "ASM-SignatureFile_20170403_145743.im".
-- Using v11.5.4 HF2 (or later).
-- Upgrading the device to 11.6.1, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, or 12.1.2.

Impact:
Attempts to perform Signature Update fail.

Workaround:
The mistaken Signature System can be deleted using the following SQL:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
UPDATE PLC.NEGSIG_SIGNATURE_SYSTEMS set system_id = 14 where system_id = (select system_id FROM PLC.NEGSIG_SYSTEMS where system_name = 'Apache');
DELETE FROM PLC.NEGSIG_SYSTEMS where system_name = 'Apache';
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Fix:
Database corruption introduced by loading Attack Signature Update 'ASM-SignatureFile_20170403_145743.im' is now corrected upon upgrade.

665778-1 : Non-admin BIG-IP users can now view/re-deploy iApps through TMUI.

Solution Article: K34503519

Component: iApp Technology

Symptoms:
Non-admin BIG-IP users cannot view deployed iApps, so they cannot redeploy the iApp. The system presents an error and does not allow access to the component view or the reconfiguration view. The error shown is 'An error has occurred while trying to process your request.'

Conditions:
-- Login to the BIG-IP system as a non-admin.
-- Try to view components or reconfigure iApps.

Impact:
Cannot view/re-deploy iApps.

Workaround:
Use TMSH to view/re-deploy iApps.

There are two TMUI workarounds to view/re-deploy iApps. Once you employ one of the workarounds, a Manager user can reconfigure the iApp successfully.

Note: After successful submission, the system posts the error described, and the Manager still cannot access the Component list or iApps editing screens.

-- Click on 'app_name' link anywhere in the system where iApp-related objects are listed. For example, if the iApp created a virtual server, click the Application column link on the 'Local Traffic :: Virtual Servers : Virtual Server List' page.

-- Have an Admin user provide the direct link to app. To do so, perform the following procedure:
1. Login as Admin to the BIG-IP system.
2. Navigate to iApps :: Application Services : Applications :: <app_name>.
3. Get the direct link to the app reconfigure page by hovering over the Settings icon and then clicking 'Direct link to this page'. Note: This link will work as long as 'app_name' and template name have not been modified. The URL appears similar to the following:
https://10.10.10.10/tmui/Control/jspmap/tmui/application/reenter.jsp?mode=app&name=/ptn1/abcd.app/abcd&template_name=/Common/f5.microsoft_exchange_2010_2013_cas.v1.6.1
4. Logout as Admin and login as Manager.
5. Paste the app direct link in the browser's address bar and press Enter.

Fix:
Non-admin BIG-IP users can now view/re-deploy iApps through TMUI.

665732-2 : FastHTTP may crash when receiving a fragmented IP packet

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A virtual server configured to use FastHTTP may cause a TMM core if fragmented IP packets are received by the virtual. This can be observed by the following TMM log statement: panic: Assertion 'l4hdr set' failed.

Conditions:
A virtual server configured with a FastHTTP profile receiving fragmented IP packets.

Impact:
Intermittent TMM core, resulting in a TMM restart. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Use a different profile than FastHTTP, such as a full proxy with TCP/HTTP filters.

Fix:
Force packet reassembly before packet is forwarded to a FastHTTP virtual.

665656-1 : BWC with iSession may memory leak

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
A memory leak may occur when BWC is configured with iSession.

Conditions:
-- BWC is configured with iSession.
-- The BWC policy is removed or reset.

Impact:
A memory leak.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The memory leak is prevented when BWC and iSession are configured together and a BWC policy is removed or reset.

665652-2 : Multicast traffic not forwarded to members of VLAN group

Solution Article: K41193475

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Multicast traffic traversing through the BIG-IP system through a VLAN that is member of a VLAN group does not get forwarded to other members of the VLAN group.

Conditions:
Multicast traffic ingress from a VLAN in a VLAN group.

Impact:
Traffic is not forwarded to the other members of the VLAN group.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Multicast traffic is now correctly forwarded to members of VLAN group.

665470-1 : Failed to load sample requests on the Traffic Learning page with VIOL_MALICIOUS_IP viol is raised

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Failed to Learn page malicious IP addresses in a specific case.

Conditions:
-- IP intelligence is turn on.
-- Logging is turned off.

Impact:
Requests that should be learned are not.

Workaround:
Turn on logging.

Fix:
The system now Learns page malicious IP addresses when IP intelligence is turn on and logging is turned off.

665416-3 : Old versions of APM configuration snapshots need to be reaped more aggressively if not used

Solution Article: K02016491

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Currently, it takes 24 hrs for old versions of APM config snapshots that are not being used to time out and to release the memory. If access profiles are complex and are updated frequently within 24 hrs, memory resource is likely to be exhausted.

Conditions:
If access profiles are updated frequently within 24 hrs and each version of the configuration snapshot contains many variables.

Impact:
TMM may run out of memory and crash, causing service interruption.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Per-session access policy snapshots are now deleted after 60 minutes instead of 24 hours.

665362-4 : MCPD might crash if the AOM restarts

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
In very rare circumstances, mcpd might crash when the AOM restarts.

Conditions:
This can occur while AOM is restarting.

Impact:
System goes offline for a few minutes.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Added error handling to prevent crash. If this error occurs in the future it will not crash, but a restart of mcpd is required.

665354-2 : Silent reboot, identified with bad_tlp_status and completion_time_out in the sel log

Solution Article: K31190471

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The most common symptom is a reboot of the unit without much detail in the normal tmm or ltm logs. From there, inspect the SEL logs. In the SEL logs, you will see a message about a bad_tlp_status, followed shortly by a message about completion_time_out_status.

Those two messages together indicate this known issue.

Conditions:
-- There are empty 10 GB ports or 10 GB ports that have optics but are not connected to a proper link.
-- Running on one of the following platforms: i2600, i2800, i4600, i4800.

Impact:
The unit intermittently reboots.

Workaround:
To prevent the issue from occurring, you must populate all 10 Gb ports with optic cables and ensure they are connecting to a working peer link. A single 10 Gb empty or improperly connected port can cause a system reboot.

If that is not possible, however, there is no workaround, and you must contact F5 Technical Support to request a software update or engineering hotfix.

Important: A device Return Materials Authorization (RMA) will not prevent this issue.

Fix:
There is a BIG-IP system software update to disable the 10 Gb FPGA mac receiver until a valid link is detected. This eliminates the issue and prevents the ultra jumbo packet from being sent to the FPGA datapath.

665347-2 : GTM listener object cannot be created via tmsh while in non-Common partition

Solution Article: K17060443

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
Cannot use tmsh to create a GTM listener in a non-Common partition.

Conditions:
-- In a non-Common partition.
-- Create a listener using a command similar to the following:
(/Common/newpart)(tmos)# create gtm listener new address 10.2.2.2

Impact:
The listener will not be created. The system outputs an error similar to the following:
01020036:3: The requested profile (/Common/newpart/udp_gtm_dns) was not found.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
GTM Listener parser now correctly handles validation and selections of profiles for GTM listeners.

665330-1 : MSIE 11 should avoid compatibility mode

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
MSIE 11 in compatibility mode is causing JS errors because MSIE 7-9 are not good in javascript.

Conditions:
APM Client and MSIE 11 forced to compartibility mode.

Impact:
Certain pages on client UI are not being rendered or being rendered with errors.

Workaround:
Don't push MSIE 11 to compatibility mode with APM
Use browsers that are good with javascript.

Fix:
We've added meta that sets MSIE in native mode. Although group policy in domain still can overwrite it, for most use cases it's enough.

665185-1 : SSL handshake reference is not dropped if forward proxy certificate lookup failed

Solution Article: K20994524

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
In rare cases, when forward-proxy certificate-lookup fails, the SSL handshake reference is not dropped, which can consume memory that is no longer needed.

Conditions:
Forward-proxy certificate-lookup fails; specifically, input string size is larger than maximum allowed.

Impact:
tmm memory use grows.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now drops the SSL handshake reference when when forward-proxy certificate-lookup fails. This is correct behavior.

665022-1 : Rateshaper stalls when TSO packet length exceeds max ceiling.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
If a TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) packet length exceeds the rateshaper's max ceiling, it causes the flow to stall.

Conditions:
Packet length exceeds rateshaper's configured max ceiling.

Impact:
The flow stalls.

Workaround:
Increase the configured rateshaper's max ceiling value to be larger than the largest packet length.

Fix:
Rateshaper no longer stalls when TSO packet length exceeds max ceiling.

664930-2 : Policy automatic learning mode changes to manual after failover

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Policy automatic learning mode changes to manual when a failover occurs.

Conditions:
-- ASM provisioned.
-- Device group with ASM policy sync configured for multi-blade devices.
-- ASM Policy is in automatic learning mode.
-- A failover occurs.

Impact:
The policy changes from automatic learning mode to manual.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Policy automatic learning mode no longer changes to manual when a failover occurs. Automatic learning mode will now be disabled only in active/active configurations.

664894-1 : PEM sessions lost when new blade is inserted in chassis

Solution Article: K11070206

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Inserting a blade into a chassis that is using high availability (HA) is configured for 'between clusters' can cause data loss in the SessionDB. This includes iRule table command as well as entries stored in the SessionDB from modules.

Conditions:
HA in use 'between clusters'.

Impact:
Data loss of some SessionDB entries.

Workaround:
In order to cleanly add a blade, put the setting from 'between clusters' to 'within cluster'; then add the new blade(s) to both clusters. Wait 60 seconds, then restore the HA connection to 'between clusters'

Fix:
PEM sessions are now retained when new blade is inserted in chassis when using 'between clusters'.

664829-1 : BIG-IP sometimes performs unnecessary reboot on first boot

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Some versions of the BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) software incorrectly determine that the size of its disk has changed, and re-sizes the partition table and causes a reboot to occur. This is likely to occur only on VE guests.

Conditions:
-- First boot of VE.
-- Software version that exhibits this issue.

Note: A specific software version for a specific cloud environment either always exhibit this, or never does.

Impact:
Additional, unnecessary minor filesystem size adjustment and additional time for a reboot to occur.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
An additional, unnecessary reboot of a BIG-IP Virtual Edition during its first boot-up should no longer occur.

664769-1 : TMM may restart when using SOCKS profile and an iRule

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TMM restarts when sending traffic through a SOCKS virtual server that has an attached iRule that uses certain blocking commands.

Conditions:
Virtual server has a SOCKS profile, and an iRule which triggers on the SERVER_CONNECTED event. If the iRule uses commands that block, tmm might restart.

Impact:
Unexpected tmm restart. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Avoid adding iRule on the SERVER_CONNECTED event, or avoid using certain iRule commands which do not complete immediately, such as 'after', 'table', 'session', and others.

Fix:
TMM no longer crashes when using SOCKS profile and serverside iRule parks.

664737-2 : Do not reboot on ctrl-alt-del

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
BIG-IP reboots on ctrl-alt-del keys

Conditions:
VE with ctrl-alt-del keys in the video console.

Impact:
BIG-IP reboots.

Fix:
prevent reboot on ctrl-alt-del

664708-2 : TMM memory leak when DoS profile is attached to VS

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
TMM memory leak when DoS profile is attached to VS

Conditions:
1. have DoS profile
2. traffic from search engine is coming to this VS
3. DNS resolver is configured

Impact:
TMM memory use increases over time.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Free memory periodically.

664549-2 : TMM restart while processing rewrite filter

Solution Article: K55105132

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
TMM restart and failover occurs while processing rewrite filter.

Conditions:
-- Virtual server with rewrite-uri-translation profile.
-- Serverside attempts to get data from clientside when connection flow does not exist.

Impact:
TMM restart and failover. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM restart and failover no longer occurs while processing rewrite filter.

664535-1 : Diameter failure: load balancing fails when all pool members use same IP Address

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
Case1: Run 2 Servers with same IP but different ports. Send 10 request from 1 client.
Result: All 10 requests from client are delivered to 1 server. Same result when use-local-connection is disabled.

Case2: Run 2 Servers with same IP but different ports but this time use MR::message route iRule command to route messages between hosts. Send 10 request from 1 client.
Result: All 10 requests from client are delivered to 1 server.

Conditions:
Load balancing scenario with single client and two pool members. The servers use same IP, different ports.

Impact:
All the requests from the same client are delivered to 1 server only.

Workaround:
Use different IP address in the pool member. Or use different IP address as the client request.

Fix:
Load balancing scenario with single client and two pool members now completes successfully even when all pool members use same IP Address.

664528-1 : SSL record can be larger than maximum fragment size (16384 bytes)

Solution Article: K53282793

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SSL record containing handshake data can exceed maximum fragment size of 16384 bytes because handshake data is not fragmented.

Conditions:
This usually happen when a large certificate or certificate chain is configured for server or client authentication.

Impact:
SSL handshake will fail with client or server that properly checks the record size.

Workaround:
Use a certificate that is smaller in size.

Fix:
Properly fragment handshake data.

664507-3 : When BIG-IP is used as SP with IdP-connector automation, updates to remotely published metadata may remove certificate reference from the local configuration

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
IdP-connector automation removes certificate reference when update to metadata file is detected, and metadata file contains multiple signing certificates

Conditions:
- BIG-IP is used as SAML SP with configured IdP-connector automation via remotely published metadata.
- Remotely published SAML metadata contains multiple signing certificates.
- Remotely published SAML metadata is periodically updated.

Impact:
Certificate reference to remotely published metadata is removed from local configuration (saml-idp-connector object). As a result, assertions generated by external IdP will not be accepted until proper certificate is configured on saml-idp-connector object again.

Workaround:
When remote metadata is changed, manually update certificate reference on saml-idp-connector object.

Fix:
When changes to remotely published SAML metadata are detected by IdP-connector automation, certificate is no longer removed from saml-idp-connector object.

664461-3 : Replacing HTTP payload can cause tmm restart

Solution Article: K16804728

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, using the [ HTTP::payload replace ... ] iRule can result in the tmm restarting.

Conditions:
Occurs when server response is non-chunked, does not contain a Content-Length header, an iRule adds a Content-Length header and performs an HTTP::payload replace command where the length is shorter than the original body length.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The HTTP::payload replace command no longer causes tmm restarts under certain conditions.

664063-1 : Azure displays failure for deployment of BIG-IP from a Resource Manager template

Solution Article: K03203976

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When deploying BIG-IP images through Azure Resource Manager or Marketplace Solution templates, the Azure portal will never display success. A timeout will eventually occur and the deployment will appear to have failed.

Conditions:
Deployment from an Azure Resource Manager or Solution template, including the BIG-IP WAF Solution from the Azure Security Center.

Impact:
A successful deployment will appear to have failed when monitoring the status in the Azure portal.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Deployments of BIG-IP from Azure Resource Manager or Marketplace Solution templates, or the BIG-IP WAF Solution from the Azure Security Center, now show the correct deployment status.

664057-2 : Upgrading GTM from pre-12.0.0 to post 12.0.0 no longer removes WideIPs without pools attached if they have an iRule attached

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Upgrades from pre-12.0.0 to 12.0.0 or beyond would delete WideIPs without pools attached even if they had an iRule attached.

Conditions:
Pre-12.0.0 configuration with an WideIP without any pools, but with an iRule.

Impact:
Some or all of a post-upgrade "GSLB-typed" wideip would be lost during the upgrade process.

Workaround:
Manually add missing WideIPs after upgrade.

Fix:
Fixed issue that could delete certain types of GTM WideIPs after an upgrade from a pre-12.0.0 version to a post 12.0.0 version.

664017-3 : OCSP may reject valid responses

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
If OCSP is configured with certain responders, a valid response may be rejected with the following error:

OCSP response: got EOF

Conditions:
This is entirely dependent on the behavior of the server. If a responder sends null or blank data (but does not close the connection) OCSP simply ends the response.

Impact:
Valid OCSP responses may be rejected.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
These responses are now accepted.

663974-2 : TMM crash when using LSN inbound connections

Component: Carrier-Grade NAT

Symptoms:
TMM might crash when using an LSN pool with inbound connections.

Conditions:
LSN inbound connections configured.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM no longer crashes when using an LSN pool with inbound connections.

663821-3 : SNAT Stats may not include port FTP traffic

Solution Article: K41344010

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Using 'tmsh show ltm snat' command or the GUI, SNAT stats are not updated for port 21 traffic (FTP).

Conditions:
-- SNAT is configured.
-- FTP connections transverse the SNAT.

Impact:
Stats are not incremented in tmsh or GUI

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
SNAT Stats now include port FTP traffic, and values are incremented as expected.

663770-2 : AFM rules are bypassed / ignored when traffic is internally forwarded to a redirected virtual server

Solution Article: K04025134

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
AFM rules are bypassed / not evaluated on the 'redirected' virtual server when the traffic is internally forwarded to that virtual server.

This is a regression from 12.1.x behavior.

Conditions:
Incoming traffic matches a virtual server and then gets internally redirected to another virtual server either via an iRule or a LTM local traffic policy.

Impact:
This has the effect of potentially negating firewall protections for the traffic that is being redirected to a different virtual server (application) if that virtual server has an AFM policy enabled on it.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Cause of the regression is fixed and now AFM policy is applied to traffic that is internally redirected to another virtual server (either via iRule or LTM traffic policy).

663580-1 : logrotate does not automatically run when /var/log reaches 90% usage

Solution Article: K31981624

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The alertd daemon does not run logrotate when the diskmonitor utility detects that /var/log has less than 10% free space.

Conditions:
/var/log has less than 10% free space.

Impact:
The /var/log filesystem might become completely full, preventing new log messages from being written.

Note: K8865: Overview of the diskmonitor utility (https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K8865) provides a desription for expected behavior.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The alertd daemon now correctly recognizes the log message from diskmonitor to initiate logrotate.

663551-1 : SERVERSSL_DATA is not triggered when iRule issues [SSL::collect] in the SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE event

Solution Article: K14942957

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
If an iRule calls [SSL::collect] in the SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE event, the expected result is that the SERVERSSL_DATA event will be raised when the serverside receives the SSL data. Then, the decrypted SSL data can be examined and manipulated.
*****************************
when SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE {
    SSL::collect
}
when SERVERSSL_DATA {
    log local0. "ServerSSL Data"
    log local0. [SSL::payload]
    SSL::release
}
*****************************

The issue is that SERVERSSL_DATA is not raised, even when the serverside receives the SSL data when the iRule calls the [SSL::collect] in the SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE:
****************************
when SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE {
    SSL::collect
}
****************************

Conditions:
Calling the [SSL::collect] in the SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE event.
****************************
when SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE {
SSL::collect
}
****************************

Impact:
SERVERSSL_DATA event is not raised.

Workaround:
Add the [SSL::release] command in the SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE event.
**********************************
when SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE {
SSL::collect
SSL::release
}

Fix:
SERVERSSL_DATA event is now raised when an iRule calls [SSL::collect] in the SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE.

663535-1 : Sending ASM cookies with "secure" attribute even without client-ssl profile

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
ASM cookies can be set with "secure" attribute on when BIG-IP works on SSL profile.

Conditions:
Enabling ASM, network to BIG-IP without client-ssl.

Impact:
When working with encrypted network in the client side but clear network in the ASM virtual, cookies cannot be set with "secure" attributes.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Added an internal parameter "assume_https", to decide always setting the "secure" attribute, even when the BIG-IP network is clear.

663521-2 : Intermittent dropping of multicast packets on certain BIG-IP platforms

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The switch device on the VIPRION B2250 and B4300 blades and the BIG-IP 10x00, i10x00, i7x00 and i5x00 platforms might drop multicast packets under certain high traffic conditions.

Conditions:
-- Certain high-traffic conditions.
-- Running on the specified blades/platforms.

Note: These dropped packets are counted under the 'drop_out' column from 'show net interface all-properties'.

Impact:
Dropped multicast packets, possibly impacting multicast protocols.

Workaround:
None.

Behavior Change:
Under certain high traffic conditions, multicast and broadcast packets will no longer be dropped.

663506-7 : apmd crash during ldap cache initialization

Solution Article: K30533350

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
apmd crashes.

Conditions:
- LDAP module is in use in an access policy,
- APM end-users are logging in, while administrator modifies AAA LDAP Server or LDAP Agent,
- Cache update takes a while (too many groups in domain and/or slow network).

Impact:
BIG-IP cannot process user logon request, until apmd is restarted and LDAP cache is updated

Workaround:
The best practice is to update policy/AAA LDAP Server when BIG-IP is not under load. Then make one logon manually. apmd updates caches on first APM end-user's logon. Once caches update, all the further logons should happen much faster and should not cause any problems

Fix:
APMD now handles the generation of LDAP Query / AD Query nested group cache correctly during high authentication load.

663396-1 : Requests using GET method are illegal after upgrade from 11.6.2

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
In a rare circumstance, requests using GET method are illegal after upgrade from 11.6.2.

Conditions:
-- Upgrade configuration from 11.6.2.
-- ASM provisioned.

Impact:
GET requests are blocked.

Workaround:
Make a spurious change to any policy and click 'Apply Policy'.

Fix:
Requests using GET method are handled correctly after upgrade from 11.6.2.

663366-3 : SEGV fault can occur during tmm 'panic' on i4x00 and i2x00 platforms.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
On the i4x00 and i2x00 platforms, TMM can encounter a second SEGV fault while crashing from an initial 'panic'.

Conditions:
-- i4x00 and i2x00 platforms.
-- TMM encounters a second SEGV fault while crashing from an initial 'panic'.

Impact:
TMM is crashing due to a 'panic'. No additional impact, as traffic is already disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
This release fixes the driver shutdown code to prevent SEGV during TMM panic.

663333-1 : TMM may core in PBA mode id LSN pool is under provisioned or the utilization is high

Component: Carrier-Grade NAT

Symptoms:
TMM may core while trying to allocate a new block

Conditions:
If LSN pool is under provisioned OR if the utilization is high, TMM may need to send MPI messages to other TMMs to search for other blocks. The TMM may core if these operations time out

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

663326-2 : Thales HSM: "fipskey.nethsm --export" fails to make stub keys

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When using "fipskey.nethsm --export -i /shared/tmp/testkey.pem -o thaleskey" to export a key file from BIG-IP and import into HSM, the HSM fails to generate the stub key at /config/ssl/ssl.key/ on the BIG-IP system.

Conditions:
-- Thales HSM is installed.
-- Running 'fipskey.nethsm --export' to export a key file from BIG-IP and import it to the Thales HSM.

Impact:
Even the key has been stored in HSM, the BIG-IP is still unable to use it because of its lacking stub key to be configured on the BIG-IP system.

Workaround:
This can be worked around by directly using the Thales command, for example:

[root@localhost:Active:Standalone] config # generatekey --import pkcs11 certreq=yes
type: Key type? (DES3, RSA, DES2) [RSA] >
pemreadfile: PEM file containing RSA key? []
> /shared/tmp/testkey.pem
embedsavefile: Filename to write key to? []
> /config/ssl/ssl.key/thales2
plainname: Key name? [] > thales2
x509country: Country code? [] > US
x509province: State or province? [] > WA
x509locality: City or locality? [] >
x509org: Organisation? [] > F5
x509orgunit: Organisation unit? [] > AS
x509dnscommon: Domain name? [] >
x509email: Email address? [] > test@test.com
nvram: Blob in NVRAM (needs ACS)? (yes/no) [no] >
digest: Digest to sign cert req with? (md5, sha1, sha256, sha384, sha512)
[default sha1] >

Fix:
When using 'fipskey.nethsm --export -i /shared/tmp/testkey.pem -o thaleskey' to export a key file from BIG-IP and import into HSM, the HSM now generates a stub key and stores it at /config/ssl/ssl.key/ on the BIG-IP system, as expected.

663310-3 : named reports "file format mismatch" when upgrading to versions with Bind 9.9.X versions for text slave zone files★

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
named reports "file format mismatch", zone files are renamed randomly to db-XXXX files, and zone cannot be loaded.

Conditions:
-- Upgrade from BIG-IP containing pre-9.9.X versions of Bind, to BIG-IP versions with Bind versions later than 9.9.x.
-- Slave zone files are in text format.
-- No options set for masterfile-format text.

Impact:
Zones cannot be loaded.

Workaround:
Before upgrading, add the following line to the named.conf options:
masterfile-format text;

Fix:
BIND 9.9.x changes the default behavior governing the storage format of slave zone files to "raw" from "text".

On upgrade, the config needs to be parsed looking for slave zones that do not specify the masterfile-format and set them to "text".

663197-3 : Security hardening of files to prevent sensitive configuration from being stored in qkview.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Sensitive configuration information, such as auth-related passwords, is being stored in cleartext in qkview files.

Conditions:
Run qkview and extract to see files with cleartext configuration information.

Impact:
Cleartext configuration information is uploaded to iHealth

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Security hardening of files to prevent sensitive configuration from being stored in qkview. Cleartext passwords will be replaced with **** in all of the following config files while collecting in qkview:

/config/bigip/auth/pam.d/cert-ldap/system-auth.conf
/config/bigip/auth/pam.d/ldap/system-auth.conf
/config/bigip/auth/pam.d/radius/system-auth.conf
/config/bigip/auth/pam.d/tacacs/system-auth
/config/bigip/auth/pam.d/ocsp/*
/config/bigip/auth/pam.d/cc_ldap/*

663127-1 : Empty attribute values in SAML Identity Provider configuration may cause error when loading configuration.

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Symptom will show as an error log in /var/log/apm similar to the one below:

Internal error processing sso config /Common/idp_obj_name
sso_tmconf_string_parse_list

When this error message is logged, subsequent authentication attempt using this BIG-IP as IdP object will fail.

Conditions:
SAML Identity Provider configuration is invalid: attribute contains empty value(s), for example:

apm sso saml /Common/idp_obj {
    attributes {
        {
            multi-values { "" user@f5.com }
            name User.Email
        }
    }

Impact:
Authentication will fail for users using affected SAML IdP object.

Workaround:
Manually edit bigip.conf configuration fail and remove empty value(s) in SAML attribute, e.g.:

apm sso saml /Common/idp_obj {
    attributes {
        {
            multi-values { user@f5.com }
            name User.Email
        }
    }

Fix:
Empty values in SAML attributes will no longer be accepted by validation logic.

663073-1 : GSLB Pool member Manage page combo box has an issue that can cause the wrong pool member to be removed from the available list when adding a member to the selected list.

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
GSLB Pool member Manage page combo box has an issue that can cause the wrong pool member to be removed from the available list when adding a member to the selected list.

Conditions:
When adding a pool member via the combo box, if you click the arrow to expand the dropdown list and select a member by clicking on it, that member name is added to the text box.

If you then mouse over other members in the dropdown list, and then click the Add button, the system adds the selected member to the list, but also removes the wrong member from the combo box: more specifically, it removes the member that was last highlighted by the mouse over.

Impact:
Available pool members might be potentially lost from the combo box until a page reload.

Note: The pool members are not gone from the system; they are still present, just not displayed.

Workaround:
Either use TMSH or place the mouse cursor away from the combo box, and use the text box to narrow down the content in the dropdown list. Then use the arrow keys and the Enter key to select the desired pool member.

Fix:
Changed the behavior of the combo box when a member is selected by clicking on it in the dropdown list. Adding a selected pool member as described above will cause the combo box to correctly remove that pool member from the combo box.

663063-2 : Disabling pool member used in busy HSL TCP destination can result service disruption.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Manually disabling an otherwise available pool member from a pool used as HSL TCP destination can result in tmm crash and service disruption.

This is more likely to occur when HSL destination is using 'balanced' distribution.

Conditions:
-- Busy HSL destination configured with TCP protocol, balanced distribution, and using pool.
-- Manually disabling a pool member.

Impact:
Service disruption while tmm recovers. HA fail-over event. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
You can avoid the issue in either of these ways:
-- Do not manually disable busy pool members that can still respond to TCP handshake.
-- Disable the service on the pool member first.

Fix:
TMM crash no longer occurs when HSL TCP pool member with pending connection is manually disabled.

662911-2 : SASP monitor uses same UID for all vCMP guests in a chassis or appliance

Solution Article: K93119070

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The SASP GWM monitor generates the LB UID from the chassis serial number of the platform on which BIG-IP is running. All vCMP guests running on the platform attempt to use the same UID.

The LB UID used to connect to the Server/Application State Protocol (SASP) Group Workload Manager (GWM) is required to be unique for each client connecting to the GWM.

As a result, only one vCMP guest running on each BIG-IP appliance or VIPRION chassis is able to successfully use the SASP monitor.
- The SASP monitor running on the first vCMP guest can successfully connect to the SASP GWM.
- Subsequent SASP monitor instances running on other vCMP guests will fail to connect to the SASP GWM.

Conditions:
This occurs when multiple vCMP guests are running on a single BIG-IP appliance or VIPRION chassis, each using a SASP monitor connecting to the same SASP GWM to monitor pool member availability.

Impact:
The SASP monitor is unable to monitor pool member availability on more than one vCMP guest running on a single BIG-IP appliance or VIPRION chassis.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The SASP monitor can be used to monitor pool member availability on multiple vCMP guests running on a single BIG-IP appliance or VIPRION chassis.

662881-2 : L7 mirrored packets from standby to active might cause tmm core when it goes active.

Solution Article: K10443875

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
L7 mirrored packets from standby to active might cause tmm core when it goes active.

Conditions:
-- Spurious ACK sent to the standby unit that is mirrored over to the active unit for processing.
-- Matching connection on the active has not been fully initialized.

Impact:
tmm crashes. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Spurious ACK no longer causes outage, instead the packet is dropped.

662850-2 : Expat XML library vulnerability CVE-2015-2716

Solution Article: K50459349

662844 : TMM crashes if Diameter MRF mirroring is enabled in v12.x.x. Diameter MRF mirroring is not implemented in v12.x.x.

Solution Article: K87735013

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
Mirroring for Diameter MRF was not implemented in v12.x.x. However, there is a option that allows the user to enable it. When enabled, tmm crashes.

Conditions:
-- Connection mirroring is enabled for Diameter MRF virtual server's router profile.
-- Using v12.x.x.

Impact:
TMM crashes. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Note: Mirroring for Diameter MRF was implemented in v13.0.0. The presence of the option to enable the unimplemented functionality is erroneous.

Workaround:
Do not enable Diameter MRF router profile's connection mirroring setting for v12.x.x.

Fix:
Diameter MRF mirroring for Diameter MR has been implemented beginning with v13.0.0. Enabling this option in v12.x.x results in a tmm crash.

662663-6 : Decryption failure Nitrox platforms in vCMP mode

Solution Article: K52521791

662639-2 : Policy Sync fails when policy object include FIPS key

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Policy sync failed with a vague error:

err mcpd[5597]: 01071600:3: APM PSync: Atom attribute (fips_exported_key) data type (blob) in class (certificate_key_file_object) object name (/Common/fips1.key) blob value is not empty - no handler for blob Object dump: **certificate_key_file_object:/Common/fips1.key ...

Conditions:
-- Sync-only device group configuration.
-- FIPS cards in use.
-- On one device:
   + Create FIPS key and certificate:
     1. Go to System::Certificate Management::Traffic Certificate Management::SSL Certificate List::Create.
     2. For 'Security Type' field of 'Key Properties' section, select 'FIPS'.
   + Create a rewrite profile:
     1. Go to Access Policy :: Portal Access :: Rewrite :: Create New Profile.
     2. Under 'JavaPatcher Settings' select 'Signer' and 'Signer Key' to the one created above (e.g., 'fips1.crt' and 'fips1.key', respectively).
   + Create an access profile.
   + Create a virtual server and attach the access profile and rewrite profile to it.
     (Note: You must also include other dependent settings, such as a connectivity profile.)
3. Start a policy sync from the device.

Impact:
Feature failure for specific configurations.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Now APM policy sync succeeds even when policy includes FIPS key.

662364-2 : MRF DIAMETER: IP ToS not passing through with DIAMETER

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
IP layer's ToS is not passing through MRF Diameter.

Conditions:
-- The IP ToS bit is received in the clientside connection.
-- ip-tos-to-client is set as pass-through.

Impact:
The ToS from the client does not reach the server.

Workaround:
Use an iRule to preserve the ToS from the client and set it to serverside's connection.

Fix:
The ToS bit that arrives from the clientside connection is able to pass-through with Diameter MRF.

662331-1 : BIG-IP logs INVALID-SPI messages but does not remove the associated SAs.

Solution Article: K24331010

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The BIG-IP system logs INVALID-SPI messages but does not remove the associated Security Associations (SAs) corresponding to the message.

Note: There are three parts to this issue, as recorded in the following bugs: 569236, 583285, and 662331.

Conditions:
This can occur if an IPsec peer deletes a phase2 (IPsec) SA and does not send a 'notify delete' message to the other peer. The INVALID-SPI message is most likely to be seen when the peer deletes an SA before the SA's agreed lifetime.

Impact:
If the BIG-IP is always the Initiator, the Responder will not initiate a new tunnel if the Responder only handles responses to the BIG-IP clients' traffic. The BIG-IP system continues to use the IPsec SA it believes to be still up. When an SA expires prematurely, some IPsec peers will reject an inbound SPI packet with an ISAKMP INVALID-SPI notify message. If the INVALID-SPI message does not cause new SAs to be created, there will be a tunnel outage until the SA lifetime expires on the defunct SA held on the BIG-IP system.

Workaround:
Manually remove the invalid SA on the BIG-IP system by running the following command:
delete /net ipsec ipsec-sa spi <invalid_spi>

Fix:
Now, when the BIG-IP system receives INVALID-SPI messages, it deletes the invalid Security Association as well as logging the INVALID-SPI message, so the tunnel can initiate again.

Note: There is a three-part fix provided for this issue, as provided in the following bugs: 569236, 583285, and 662331.

662281-2 : Inconsistencies in Automatic sync ASM Device Group

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Some ASM calls are not propagated correctly across an automatic sync device group.

This can cause any of the following depending on the change:
A) Superfluous full syncs
B) Updating the wrong element on the remote devices
C) Missing changes on the remote devices

Conditions:
Automatic Sync is configured for a Device Group with ASM enabled.

Impact:
Any of the following depending on the change:
A) Superfluous full syncs
B) Updating the wrong element on the remote devices
C) Missing changes on the remote devices

Workaround:
Disable automatic sync on the device group, and periodically push changes manually.

Fix:
Calls are correctly propagated across Automatic sync Device Groups

662085-1 : iRules LX Workspace editor in TMUI fails to display all workspace contents after install of large Node.js packages

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Using Node.js package manager (NPM) to install a large Node.js package in the TMUI results in truncated contents in the workspace.

Conditions:
Installing large Node.js packages using the TMUI.

Impact:
The workspace contents will be truncated. Some of the package contents will be missing, or boilerplate F5 elements (f5-nodejs, package.json, etc.) will not be shown.

Workaround:
None.

Note: TMSH recognizes the entire file structure of node_modules (e.g., package.json and module folders of f5-nodejs and async), but TMUI does not.

Fix:
All contents from the workspace filesystem are now shown and are editable from the TMUI.

662078-1 : Occasionally connections are dropped in response to timing errors

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Occasionally connections are dropped and the following message is posted, even when TPS is set to UNLIMITED: SSL transaction (TPS) rate limit reached.

Conditions:
-- SSL traffic is received.
-- A certain timing condition is encountered.

Impact:
Connection is dropped. This is an occasional, timing-related issue.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Timing error no longer occurs when SSL traffic is received, so connections are not dropped.

662022-5 : The URI normalization functionality within the TMM may mishandle some malformed URIs.

Solution Article: K34514540

661881-2 : Memory and performance issues when using certain ASN.1 decoding formats in iRules

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Memory and performance issues when using calls to ASN1::decode with "a" or "B" characters in the format string. This occurs because these calls do not correctly free memory allocated by those functions.

Conditions:
iRules that contain calls to ASN1::decode with "a" or "B" characters in the format string.

Impact:
Memory leak, degraded performance, potential eventual out-of-memory crash.

Workaround:
None.

Note: Because of the memory leak associated with this issue, using calls to ASN1::decode with "a" or "B" characters in the format string should be avoided.

Fix:
Prevented memory leak when using calls to ASN1::decode with "a" or "B" characters in the format string.

661764-2 : It is possible to configure a number of CPUs that exceeds the licensed throughput

Solution Article: K53762147

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The system does not prevent you from selecting a number of CPUs that exceeds the license's throughput limit.

Conditions:
Configure a number of CPUs that exceeds the licensed throughput, for example, configuring 4 CPUs on a 2Mbps license on a VE system.

Impact:
Depending on the operations performed, it is possible for tmm to core.

Workaround:
None, other than configuring only the available number of CPUs.

Fix:
The system now detects when a configuration invalid for the license is in use and fails gracefully, presenting an error message explaining the failure.

660711-1 : MCPd might crash when user trying to import a access policy

Solution Article: K05265457

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
MCPd restarts during importing an access policy; other daemon might also restart because of MCPd restart.

Conditions:
This occurs when an access policy uses the same agent more than once.
Importing that access policy causes MCPd to crash.

this can happen when you don’t use GUI/VPE to manage access policy but directly modify the config file in exported access policy.

Only use the GUI/VPE to manage access policies.

You should not modify the config file for an exported access policy.

Impact:
MCPd and some other daemons restart. GUI unresponsive for a while.

Workaround:
Only use the GUI/VPE to manage access policies.

You should not modify the config file for an exported access policy.

Fix:
MCP now applies appropriate validation to avoid importing invalid access policies.

660532-2 : Cannot specify the event parameter for redirects on the policy rule screen.

Solution Article: K21050223

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Cannot specify the event parameter for redirects on the policy rule screen.

System presents the following error: An error occurred: transaction failed:010716e2:3: Policy '/Common/Drafts/test', rule 'test-rule3'; an action precedes its conditions.

Conditions:
This occurs when setting a policy rule action's "event" parameter in the GUI when configuring redirects.

Impact:
Cannot specify the event parameter.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
This release has an option for choosing event for redirect action.

660263-4 : DNS transparent cache message and RR set activity counters not incrementing

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
The message and Resource Record (RR) set counters for transparent caches do not increment to reflect traffic.

Conditions:
The cache is of type transparent.
-- Viewing statistics counters.

Impact:
The statistics counters stay zero.

Workaround:
There is no workaround.

Fix:
The system now enables the code that increments these counters for transparent caches similar to other type caches.

660239-3 : When accessing the dashboard, invalid HTTP headers may be present

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When accessing parts of the BIG-IP dashboard via the GUI, there might be invalid HTTP headers in the responses.

Conditions:
Access the dashboard via Statistics :: Dashboard.

Impact:
The invalid HTTP headers might cause issues with the dashboard if there are intervening proxies between the browser and the BIG-IP.

You may see such errors in the http error logs

Feb 20 08:47:58 myBIG-IP err httpd[13777]: [error] [client 10.20.30.40] Response header name '<PostData><![CDATA[table=log%5Fstat]]></PostData>Cache-Control' contains invalid characters, aborting request, referer: https://mybigip.com/tmui/dashboard/MonitorDashboardModule.swf

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Eliminated invalid header data.

660187-3 : TMM core after intra-chassis failover for some instances of subscriber creation

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
If intra-chassis failover is triggered in a loaded chassis, the tmm crashes in some cases of subscriber creation.

Conditions:
-- The chassis is loaded with many blades.
-- The high availability (HA) configuration is intra-chassis.
-- RADIUS subscriber is added with custom attributes.
-- The subscriber attributes are corrupted or erased.

Impact:
TMM crashes. The slot reboots, potentially triggering further daglib hash changes. May result in cascading core under load. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Verify the validity of the AVPs before copying the attributes

660170-1 : tmm may crash at ~75% of VLAN failsafe timeout expiration

Solution Article: K28505910

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When VLAN failsafe is configured, and the VLAN failsafe timeout is 3/4 expired, tmm wants to generate ICMP traffic to evoke a network response. When this occurs, the system might experience a crash.

Conditions:
- VLAN failsafe is configured on a VLAN, for example with the recommended VLAN failsafe timeout of 90 sec.
- The VLAN does not observe ARP/ndp traffic for 3/4 of the timeout, 67.5 seconds.
- ICMP traffic generated to provoke a network response can under certain circumstances cause a TMM crash.

Impact:
TMM crashes, failover is triggered, as it would with a fully expired VLAN-failsafe-timeout condition (note that failover with a fully expired VLAN failsafe is correct behavior).

Traffic on other VLANs might be disrupted while TMM restarts. (Traffic on the VLAN-failsafe-triggered VLAN is already disrupted, causing the timeout to expire.)

Workaround:
1. To allow for VLAN failsafe to be updated for any frame, run the following command with VLAN failsafe enabled, run the following command:
tmsh modify failover.vlanfailsafe.resettimeronanyframe enable

This configuration increases the confidence that in the case of a timeout expiry a real traffic disruption is detected.

2. Set the timeout of VLAN failsafe to 4/3 of the setting you want, for example, to have a timeout setting of 90, specify 120. With this setting, failover occurs at 90 seconds for a fully quiescent network.

Note: Having a fully quiescent network is a rare occurrence and likely indicates that another issue is occurring anyway.

Fix:
Generating ICMP traffic from TMM is no longer exposed to a potential crash in an invalid configuration or a completely quiet network, when generating ICMP traffic to provoke a network response on an expiring timer of VLAN failsafe, assuming the following configuration:

- VLAN failsafe is configured.
- VLAN failsafe expired 3/4 of the configured timeout (e.g., 67.5 seconds of 90 seconds ).

659969-1 : tmsh command for gtm-application disabled contexts does not work with none and replace-all-with

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
The command for distributed-app's disabled-contexts does not work with the options 'none' and 'replace-all-with'.

Conditions:
Issuing gtm-application disabled contexts commands including the options 'none' and 'replace-all-with'.

Impact:
Command does not complete successfully. This is an internal validation issue.

Workaround:
None.

659912-1 : GSLB Pool Member Manage page display issues and error message

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
The GSLB Pool Member Manage page displays an error message 'Entry could not be matched against existing objects' when using the static-target checkbox to add a member that does not exist on the BIG-IP config.

Also when editing a pool member, the pool member's name will not be auto-selected in the combo box.

Conditions:
-- GSLB pool configured.
-- Members available for addition to the pool.

Note: This issue can happen when creating a pool in the members section as well as on the pool members manage page.

Impact:
Degraded usability.

Workaround:
Use TMSH to add a static-target and to edit pool members.

Fix:
Fixed issue with the edit button and issue that prevented adding as a static-target a GSLB pool member that was not part of the GTM config. Now, if static target is enabled, you can type the name of the target without the target being configured on the system.

659899-1 : Rare, intermittent system instability observed in dynamic load-balancing modes

Solution Article: K10589537

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The dynamic pool member load-balancing modes require a precision measurement of active connection counts and/or rates. Rare, intermittent system instability has been observed in dynamic pool member selection when a new connection arrives. TMM may restart, leaving a core file.

Conditions:
LTM pool configured to use a dynamic load-balancing mode ('ltm pool NAME load-balancing-mode MODE' where MODE is one of the dynamic load-balancing modes, such as dynamic-ratio-member, least-connections-node, predictive-node, etc.). The dynamic modes use the session database to share data among all TMM instances, and under extremely rare conditions, the session database may become unreliable.

Impact:
TMM restarts and leaves a core file. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The dynamic load-balancing modes are now more tolerant of errors from the underlying session database.

659791-2 : TFO and TLP could produce a core file under specific circumstances

Solution Article: K81137982

659648-2 : LTM Policy rule name migration doesn't properly handle whitespace

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
LTM Policy validation does not allow rule names to begin or end with whitespace characters. When migrating configuration to the next version, the migration process attempts to trim off any leading and trailing whitespace. However, this process does not handle leading and trailing whitespace when such characters occur within a double quoted string.

Conditions:
LTM policy with a rule name that contains leading and/or trailing whitespace characters. These will typically occur within a double-quoted string. Here is an example that one might find in bigip.conf:

ltm policy example1 {
    rules {
        " leading and trailing spaces " {
            ...
        }
        ...
    }

Impact:
Policy rules are migrated incorrectly, then fail validation because there of remaining leading and/or trailing whitespace characters.

Workaround:
Prior to migration, LTM Policy rule name can be renamed to remove leading and trailing whitespace. After a failed migration, bigip.conf can be manually edited to remove offending characters and then the configuration can be manually loaded.

Fix:
LTM Policy migration properly handles whitespace in rule names in a quoted string.

659567-1 : iRule command PEM::session functions differently in 12.1.x and 13.0.0 than it did in prior versions

Solution Article: K94685557

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
When the RADIUS discovery virtual server and the traffic listener virtual server sit in two different route domains, the iRule command 'PEM::session info $sub subscriber-id' may not be able to fetch the subscriber-id.

Conditions:
-- Running v12.1.x or v13.0.0.
-- RADIUS server.
-- Use of iRule command PEM::session.

Impact:
'PEM::session info state/subscriber-id' commands might not return the expected session info.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
iRule command PEM::session functions differently in 12.1.x and 13.0.0 than it did in prior versions. The commands now consider route domains.

659519-1 : Non-default header-table-size setting on HTTP2 profiles may cause issues

Solution Article: K42400554

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
HTTP2 connection sent RST_STREAM due to protocol error in response to headers frame.

Conditions:
HTTP2 profile configured with header-table-size with value exceeding 4096.

Impact:
Periodic HTTP2 connection failure to the virtual.

Workaround:
Restore the default header-table-size setting for the HTTP2 profile.

659371-2 : apmd crashes executing iRule policy evaluate

Solution Article: K54310201

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Following a restart, if apmd executes an iRule policy evaluate before its reinitialization is complete, apmd can crash.

Conditions:
If apmd restarts due to a crash or explicit restart command but tmm remains active, then iRule policy evaluate commands can reach apmd before it completes initialization and it will crash.

Impact:
apmd crashes and restarts, preventing end users from logging in.

Workaround:
NOne.

Fix:
Now APMD has a more robust initialization process to ensure that it does not execute access policies from iRule commands before it is ready.

659173-1 : Diameter Message Length Limit Changed from 1024 to 4096 Bytes

Solution Article: K76352741

Component: Service Provider

Symptoms:
Diameter messages longer than 1024 might cause core dumps.

Conditions:
Using Diameter messages longer than 1024.

Impact:
Diameter MRF virtual servers.

Workaround:
Make sure messages are less than 1024 bytes.

Fix:
Messages of 4096 or fewer bytes now pass, and longer messages no longer cause core dumps.

659057-1 : BIG-IP iSeries: Retrieving the gateway from the Host via REST through the LCD

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The LCD on BIG-IP iSeries appliances must detect whether the system is in IPv4 or IPv6 context before retrieving the gateway from the Host via REST. If two gateways are configured (IPv4 and IPv6) only whichever is first in the list is returned via REST and will be set on the Host.

Conditions:
If two gateways are configured (IPv4 and IPv6).

Impact:
Incorrect gateway retrieval can create bad configs which would impact traffic resulting in failed ping attempts, destination unreachable errors, request timeouts, etc.

Workaround:
No workaround at this time.

Fix:
LCD code now retrieves the correct gateway when switching between IPV4 and IPV6 context.

658989-2 : Memory leak when connection terminates in iRule process

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Memory leak eventually leading to alloc failure and TMM crash.

Conditions:
Connection is aborted/terminated when iRule processing is suspended for the current connection.

Impact:
Memory leak and eventual TMM restart. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Avoid suspend/park commands in iRule processing.

Fix:
Memory no longer leaks when connection is aborted/terminated when iRule processing is suspended.

658852-5 : Empty User-Agent in iSessions requests from APM client on Windows

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
'User-Agent' might be empty in some '/isession' requests from APM client on Microsoft Windows. Having empty User-Agent headers is not in RFC compliance and forces some firewall to block the connection. This might result in failure to establish a VPN tunnel.

Conditions:
'/isession' requests from APM client on Windows.

Impact:
Failure to establish a VPN tunnel.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Now all connections from Windows APM VPN client contain 'User-Agent' headers, as expected.

658664-3 : VPN connection drops when 'prohibit routing table change' is enabled

Solution Article: K21390304

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
When there is a brief network outage and 'prohibit routing table change' is enabled, VPN gets disconnected and no further attempts are made to re-establish the VPN connection.

Conditions:
-- A brief network outage occurs.
-- The 'prohibit routing table change' option is enabled.

Impact:
APM end users must click 'Connect' and re-authenticate in order to re-establish the VPN connection.

Workaround:
To re-establish the VPN connection, click 'Connect' and re-authenticate.

Fix:
Now the Windows Edge Client VPN connection stays active during a brief network outage, regardless of the state of the 'prohibit routing table changes' option.

658636-2 : When creating LTM or DNS monitors through batch/transaction mode newlines are improperly escaped.

Solution Article: K51355172

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
- LTM/DNS monitors created via tmsh batch/transactions improperly escape newline characters.
- Expected escaping: \r\n
- Actual escaping: \\r\\n
- Impact: The URI sent is not correct,

Conditions:
When creating LTM or DNS monitors through batch/transaction mode when strings contain newline characters. For example, using the following commands to batch-create:

create gtm monitor http one_test_mon { send "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: abc.example.com\r\nUser-Agent: slb-healthcheck\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n" recv "200"}
submit cli transaction
list gtm monitor http one_test_mon

The system creates the following monitor:

gtm monitor http one_test_mon {
    defaults-from http
    destination *:*
    interval 30
    probe-timeout 5
    recv 200
    send "GET / HTTP/1.0\\r\\nHost: abc.example.com\\r\\nUser-Agent: slb-healthcheck\\r\\nConnection: Close\\r\\n\\r\\n"

Impact:
Cannot use batch/transaction mode in TMSH to create LTM or DNS monitors. Cannot use LTM or DNS monitors created using batch/transaction mode in tmsh.

Workaround:
Create the monitor directly in tmsh without using batch/transaction mode.

Fix:
When creating LTM or DNS monitors through batch/transaction mode newlines are now properly escaped.

658574-2 : An accelerated flow transmits packets to a stale (incorrect) destination MAC address.

Solution Article: K61847644

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
An accelerated flow can send to a stale destination MAC address after the ARP packet with the updated MAC address is received.

Warning: disabling auto-lasthop is not enough when they want BIG-IP to use updated destination MAC address.

Conditions:
A flow is accelerated with a destination MAC address that changes while the flow is accelerated.

Impact:
The BIG-IP system sends packets to a stale (incorrect) destination MAC address. In this case, the new MAC address is not updated for the accelerated flow and the flow will continue to send traffic using the original MAC address.

Workaround:
Disable HW acceleration. Prevent the downstream destination MAC address from changing. For example, if the downstream unit is a BIG-IP active/standby configuration, then use MAC masquerading to prevent the MAC address from changing.

658343-2 : AVR tcp-analytics: per-host RTT average may show incorrect values

Solution Article: K33043439

Component: Application Visibility and Reporting

Symptoms:
When viewing the Statistics :: Analytics :: TCP :: RTT, then selecting (in the table below the graph), View By: "Remote Host IP Address", the values presented RTT Avg (ms) may be incorrect (they could even be larger than the RTT Max column).

As values are aggregated through the data tables, the reported rtt average value becomes larger and larger.

Conditions:
AVR is provisioned, and a tcp-analytics profile is attached to a virtual server.

Impact:
The values reported in the RTT Avg column when viewing by Remote Host IP Address may be incorrect.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The rtt_count, rtt_max, rtt_avg, rtt_sum metrics after day aggregation and week aggregations are now correct in the day, week, month reports. The rtt_sum is now aggregated with correct value (exceed max int), as expected.

658321-2 : Websafe features might break in IE8

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
IE8 transform all custom HTTP headers names to lowercase
in case header name configured with upper-case characters, WebSafe feature might break.

Conditions:
custom HTTP header configured with upper case characters
client is IE8.

Impact:
FPS plugin will not find the header, as it received lower-case but configured with upper-case characters
as a result, WebSafe functionality is broken (functionality which involve the custom HTTP header, e.g. ajax username header)

Workaround:
Set custom HTTP header name to lower case only.

Fix:
FPS now performs case-insensitive matches for custom HTTP headers.

658298-3 : SMB monitor marks node down when file not specified

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The smb monitor may always mark the node down when the file is not specified in the monitor config.

Conditions:
Pool member monitored with smb monitor.

Impact:
Service impact due to node being marked down.

Workaround:
Configure monitor to fetch file (authenticated).

658261-2 : TMM core after HA during GY reporting

Solution Article: K12253471

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
If intra-chassis failover is triggered in a loaded chassis, the tmm crashes in some cases of GY reporting

Conditions:
-- Failover is triggered,
-- The daglib hash redistributes the subscriber DATA to different slots.
-- Existing flows continue on the slots that were allocated using the old hash of daglib.

Note: This is a rarely encountered issue that occurred in a setup with 8 slots and 750 thousand subscribers.

Impact:
Slot reboots. May trigger more hash rearrangement. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

658214-2 : TCP connection fail intermittently for mirrored fastl4 virtual server

Solution Article: K20228504

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
In some cases, a mirrored FastL4 virtual server may fail to forward the SYN on the server-side after receiving the context-ack from the peer. Note: This is a connection-failure through the active system, not simply a failure to mirror to the peer.

Symptoms include:
-- TCP connection failures.
-- Possibly other packets lost.

Conditions:
-- FastL4 virtual server.
-- Mirroring is enabled.
-- Certain traffic interleaving might be necessary for this intermittent problem to occur.

Impact:
FastL4 mirroring does not always forward SYN to server after receiving context ACK. Connections fail.

Workaround:
Set the tm.fastl4_ack_mirror dv variable using the following command: tmsh modify sys db tm.fastl4_ack_mirror value disable.

Fix:
In this release, mirrored FastL4 virtual server now forward the SYN on the server-side after receiving the context-ack from the peer as expected.

658148-2 : TMM core after intra-chassis failover for some instances of subscriber creation

Solution Article: K23150504

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
If intra-chassis failover is triggered in a loaded chassis, the tmm crashes in some cases of subscriber creation.

Conditions:
-- The chassis is loaded with many blades.
-- The HA configuration is intra-chassis.
-- RADIUS subscriber is added with custom attributes.
-- The subscriber attributes are corrupted or erased.

Impact:
TMM crashes. The slot reboots, potentially triggering further daglib hash changes. May result in cascading core under load. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
If intra-chassis failover is triggered in a loaded chassis, the tmm no longer crashes in some cases of subscriber creation.

657883-2 : tmm cache resolver should not cache response with TTL=0

Solution Article: K34442339

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
tmm cache resolver caches responses with TTL=0, and it shouldn't.

Conditions:
TTL is set to 0 on the BIG-IP DNS system, so TMM will see TTL=0 from the DNS answer.

Impact:
tmm cache resolver caches responses with TTL=0.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system no longer caches ttl=0 response for tmm cache resolver. This is correct behavior.

657795-1 : Possible performance impact on some SSL connections

Solution Article: K51498984

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Some SSL connections may be delayed by almost exactly 5 seconds. The delay occurs between the SSL client hello and the server hello response from the BIG-IP system.

Conditions:
-- SSL configured on a Virtual Server. Affects VIPRION/vCMP Guests.

-- Client connects with an SSL session ID that is not in the cache, and in a very specific format that causes tmm to associate the session ID to a blade that does not exist.

Impact:
Performance may be impacted on those SSL connections.

Workaround:
Disable SSL session cache by setting cache-size to zero in the clientssl profile.

Fix:
This release fixes an issue that might cause performance impact on certain SSL connections.

657713-5 : Gateway pool action may trigger the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to produce a core file and restart.

Solution Article: K05052273

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
As a result of this issue, you may encounter one or more of the following symptoms:

-- TMM generates a core file in the /shared/core directory.
-- Your BIG-IP system logs a SIGFPE to the /var/log/tmm file at the same time TMM produces a core file and restarts.
-- In one of the /var/log/tmm log files, you may observe error messages similar to the following example:

notice panic: ../modules/hudfilter/hudfilter.c:1063: Assertion "valid node" failed.
notice ** SIGFPE **

Conditions:
This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met:

-- Your BIG-IP system is configured to route traffic using a gateway pool.
-- The gateway pool is configured with Action On Service Down = Reject.
-- The pool monitor marks all members of the gateway pool as unavailable.
-- A connection is rejected by the gateway pool.

Impact:
The BIG-IP system temporarily fails to process traffic while the TMM process restarts. If the BIG-IP system is configured for high availability (HA), the system fails over to a peer system.

Workaround:
Set service-down-action to none or reselect.

Fix:
Gateway pool action no longer triggers TMM to produce a core file and restart.

657632-4 : Rarely if a subscriber delete is performed following HA switchover, tmm may crash

Component: Policy Enforcement Manager

Symptoms:
If a subscriber delete is performed following a HA switchover, tmm may coredump. The probability of this scenario is rare, where a subscriber may have been freed during switchover and a subsequent forced delete command quickly follows.

Conditions:
-- A subscriber delete command followed by a HA switchover.
-- During the switchover, the subscriber was freed.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now removes the subscriber index from the table if present in these cases.

657626-2 : User with role 'Manager' cannot delete/publish LTM policy.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
User with role 'Manager' cannot delete/publish LTM policy.

audit.log contains a message similar to the following:
notice icrd_child[18194]: 01420002:5: AUDIT - pid=18194 user=Manager folder=/Manager module=(tmos)# status=[01070822:3: Access Denied: User (Manager) may not delete objects in partition (Common)] cmd_data=publish ltm policy /Manager/Drafts/draft-test.

Conditions:
-- User with 'Manager' role.
-- Attempting to delete or publish an LTM policy.

Impact:
Operation does not complete, and system posts error.

Workaround:
None.

657502-2 : JS error when leaving page opened for several minutes

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
Google Chrome delays JS execution when the tab is not active.
Therefore anti-debug module acts as if someone is trying to debug JS code.

Conditions:
-- JS runs in hidden tab in Google Chrome.
-- Anti-debug functionality is active.
-- Page is left open for several minutes.

Impact:
Errors in console and JS logic is incorrectly executed.

Workaround:
Identify hidden tab and pause anti-debug functionality.

Fix:
The system now correctly handles JS code running in a hidden tab and pauses anti-debug check.

657463-2 : SSL sends HUDEVT_SENT to TCP in wrong state which causes HTTP disconnect the handshake.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SSL sends HUDEVT_SENT to TCP in wrong state which causes HTTP disconnect the handshake.

Conditions:
SSL sends HUDEVT_SENT to TCP in wrong state.

Impact:
Then HTTP disconnects the handshake

Fix:
Don't allow SSL send HUDEVT_SENT event in the wrong state.

656912-4 : Various NTP vulnerabilities

Solution Article: K32262483

656900-1 : Blade family migration may fail

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Migrating the configuration from a B2100 blade to a newer variant, as documented in the "Migrating the Configuration on B2000 Series Blades" page in the "VIPRION Systems: Blade Migration" manual, may show output indicating a failure.

Conditions:
All such blade upgrades.

Impact:
The line 'load ucs failed!' should be ignored. If the line '/var/local/ucs/upgradeConfig-your-serial-number.ucs is loaded.' is present, then the UCS load was in fact successful and you can proceed with the instructions.

Workaround:
The line 'load ucs failed!' should be ignored. If the line '/var/local/ucs/upgradeConfig-your-serial-number.ucs is loaded.' is present, then the UCS load was in fact successful and you can proceed with the instructions.

656898-2 : "oops" "bad transition" messages occur

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The /var/log/ltm log shows many "oops" "bad transition" messages.

Conditions:
These messages occur due to internal invariant violations on full proxy TCP virtual servers. Ramcache or SSL on these virtual servers are likely causes. There may be yet unknown causes.

Impact:
Connections encountering these errors are aborted.

Workaround:
The excess logging may be stopped by setting the DB variable tmm.oops to "silent". These errors won't be reported but connections will still be aborted.

655807-5 : With QoS LB, packet rate score is calculated incorrectly and dominates the QoS score

Solution Article: K40341291

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
When choosing QoS Load balance, packet rate is dominating the score.

Conditions:
QoS load balance.

Impact:
Load balance decision is mostly impacted by packet rate.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Corrected a calculation error for QoS score involving packet rate.

655793-1 : SSL persistence parsing issues due to SSL / TCP boundary mismatch

Solution Article: K04178391

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When the SSL client or server system is set up to send SSL messages whose boundaries do not align with underlying TCP boundaries, the parser fails when SSL persistence is enabled.

So, any SSL record spanning over multiple TCP segments (in this case it's ServerHello, Certificate, and ServerHelloDone) triggers the issue with the SSID error RST cause.

This can also result from a message size exceeding the maximum configured size (default is 32K).

Conditions:
[1] SSL persistence is enabled.
[2a] SSL message boundary does not align with underlying TCP segment boundary. One example of boundary mismatch is when the TCP MTU size is changed to a lower value (around 1200 bytes). Even then there may be specific values for which the boundaries match and parsing succeeds.
[2b] The message size is greater than the maximum configured size (default 32k).

Impact:
When the parsing fails, the SSL client or server hangs and times out. In other words, SSL traffic is affected.

The SSL parsing should succeed regardless of a match or mismatch between SSL message boundary and TCP segment boundary.

Workaround:
Disable SSL persistence.

Fix:
The system now switches the state of the SSL persistence to pass through all remaining messages, since no further parsing is needed.

655671-1 : Polling time waiting for I2C bus transactions in the bcm56xxd daemon needs to be reduced

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
On platforms that run the bcm56xxd daemon, the polling time that the system waits for I2C bus transactions to complete runs too long. On systems with I2C bus issues, this can lead to bcm56xxd core files, because the bcm56xxd daemon doesn't reset the watchdog so the watchdog timer kills the process.

Conditions:
This is an issue only when there is a stuck I2C bus, which occurs rarely.

Impact:
bcm56xxd process may core and restart. That typically resets the I2C bus, which resolves any issues.

Workaround:
None. Typically, the issue resolves itself.

Fix:
The number of times the bcm56xxd process polls for an I2C bus transaction to complete is reduced to prevent bcm56xxd core files.

655649-2 : BGP last update timer incorrectly resets to 0

Solution Article: K88627152

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
In ZebOS, every time the scan timer resets it also incorrectly resets the BGP last update timer as shown under the imish command 'sh ip route'.

Output from 'sh ip route':

4054fdc0-3e51-4079-b52f-4a3b058a3f93#sh ip ro
...
B 10.30.0.0/16 [20/0] via 10.10.1.2, eno33554952, 00:00:32
               [20/0] via 10.10.1.6, eno33554952, 00:00:32
...
4054fdc0-3e51-4079-b52f-4a3b058a3f93#sh ip ro
...
B 10.30.0.0/16 [20/0] via 10.10.1.2, eno33554952, 00:00:33
               [20/0] via 10.10.1.6, eno33554952, 00:00:33
...
4054fdc0-3e51-4079-b52f-4a3b058a3f93#sh ip ro
...
B 10.30.0.0/16 [20/0] via 10.10.1.2, eno33554952, 00:00:00 <<<< shouldn't reset
               [20/0] via 10.10.1.6, eno33554952, 00:00:00

Conditions:
Once ZebOS has learned a route from a BGP peer the route will show up under 'sh ip route' and the BGP last update timer will incorrectly reset.

Impact:
If BGP routes are being redistributed into other protocols, the route may flap in the destination process.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
BIG-IP no longer resets the last update time of learned routes via BGP and BGP routes redistributed into other protocols no longer flap.

655628-1 : TCP analytics does not release resources under specific sequence of packets

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TCP analytics does not release memory when a specific sequence of packets is observed, and memory usage increases as more such flows occur.

Conditions:
-- A TCP analytics profile is configured to collect clientside/serverside analytics data.
-- AVR is provisioned.
-- FastL4 and HTTP profiles are configured.
-- A specific sequence of packets (on the serverside) occurs.

Impact:
Main memory occupied by TCP analytics is not released which might lead to memory exhaustion on the BIG-IP system.

Workaround:
Turn off collecting TCP analytics data for the virtual server.

Fix:
TCP analytics now releases resources properly.

655617-1 : Safari, Firefox in incognito mode on iOS device cannot pass persistent client identification challenge

Solution Article: K36442669

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
When running Safari or Firefox in incognito mode on iOS devices, browser gets TCP RST and will not be able to pass client-side challenge. The system posts the following error in tmm log: failed parsing header 3.

Conditions:
1. Web scraping is configured.
2. Persistent client identification is enabled.
3. Using Safari or Firefox on iOS devices.

Impact:
Browser cannot access the site.

Workaround:
Turn off persistent client identification.

Fix:
Safari, Firefox in incognito mode on iOS device can now pass persistent client identification challenge.

655500 : Rekey SSH sessions after one hour

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Common Criteria requires that SSH session be rekeyed at least every hour

Conditions:
SSH connections to or from the BIG-IP system.

Impact:
SSH sessions are rekeyed in response to the quantity of data transferred, or on user demand, but not on the basis of elapsed time

Workaround:
If time-based rekeying is required in your environment, edit the SSH configuration to include a RekeyLimit with both data and time parameters using a command similar to the following:
tmsh modify sys sshd include 'RekeyLimit 256M 3600s'

Outbound SSH client connections can be modified by adding the same RekeyLimit configuration to /config/ssh/ssh_config or by including that option on the command line when calling the ssh client.

Fix:
SSH sessions are now rekeyed every hour regardless of the quantity of data transferred.

655470 : IP Intelligence logging publisher removal can cause tmm crash

Solution Article: K79924625

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
TMM restart immediately after removing global ip-intelligence logging publisher.

Conditions:
1) Global IP Intelligence logging enabled.
2) While new incoming connections are handled by the system, delete the global logging publisher using the following command:
modify security log profile global-network ip-intelligence { log-publisher none }

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts. This is an intermittent, timing-related issue.

Note: Because deleting the global ip-intelligence logging configuration publisher is uncommon, and might occur once, at setup, this issue is unlikely to manifest.

Workaround:
There is no workaround, other than to not delete the ip-intelligence global logging publisher when heavy traffic is being handled.

Fix:
Error handling now checks for NULL publisher and prevents the TMM restart.

655445-2 : Provide the ability to globally specifiy a DSCP value.

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
The DSCP value is not configurable for some types of traffic, which can lead to dropped traffic during adverse network conditions.

Conditions:
Under adverse network conditions, monitor traffic can be dropped by the network.

Impact:
BIG-IP DNS incorrectly reports resources as unavailable because monitor traffic is dropped by the network due to congestion with unrelated traffic.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Setting the new db variable tm.egressdscp to a value other than the default value of 0, results in the system setting the DSCP value for outgoing traffic to the configured value.

655432-7 : SSL renegotiation failed intermittently with AES-GCM cipher

Solution Article: K85522235

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SSL failed to renegotiate intermittently with AES-GCM cipher because IV is not properly updated when a change cipher spec message is received.

Conditions:
This failure is more likely to occur during mutual authentication.

Impact:
Some servers authenticate client using renegotiation. This issue prevents their clients from properly connecting to the servers.

Workaround:
Disable AES-GCM cipher.

Fix:
The system now properly updates AES-GCM IV when a change cipher spec message is received.

655364-1 : Portal access rewriting window.opener causes JS exception

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Portal access engine rewriting window.opener causes JavaScript exception error.

Conditions:
When rewriting window.opener.

Impact:
JavaScript exception error generated.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The rewriting window.opener operation now completes with Message 'null', which is correct behavior. No JavaScript exception error is generated.

655357-2 : Corrupted L2 FDB entries on B4450 blades might result in dropped traffic

Solution Article: K06245820

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
ARP replies reach front panel port of B4450 blades but fail to reach TMMs.

This occurs because the switch in the B4450 blade has an L2 learning issue in the switch fabric that requires the system to correct the new L2 FDB entries learned on Higig trunks. The L2 module runs in poll mode by default, which is exposed to a 3-second race window in software, during which learning events in the switch hardware for a given L2 FDB entry can be lost. That can lead to corrupted L2 FDB entries and cause traffic hitting the corrupted L2 FDB entries to fail.

Conditions:
-- An L2 FDB entry is learned on Higig trunk.
-- Multiple L2 learning events happen on the L2 FDB entry during the 3-second race window in software.

Impact:
The traffic hitting the corrupted L2 FDB entry will be dropped by the switch.

Workaround:
Delete the corrupted L2 FDB entries and cause the switch to re-learn them.

To do so, identify the affected VLAN and flush L2 FDB entries on that VLAN using the following command: tmsh delete net fdb vlan {vlan_name}.

Fix:
A db variable switchboard.l2.mitigation was introduced to configure this feature.

-- A value of "enable" allows packets to be forwarded in the case of corrupted L2 FDB entries. Packets will be hashed on source and destination addresses. Enabling forwarding this way is only a temporary measure.

-- A value of "monitor" does not forward packets but will count packets which were affected by corrupted L2 FDB entries. The stat table switch/l2_mitgation, updated every 11 seconds, reports p

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Product Usage

Trials

Registration Keys

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Applies To:

BIG-IP AAM

BIG-IP APM

BIG-IP Analytics

BIG-IP Link Controller

BIG-IP LTM

BIG-IP PEM

BIG-IP AFM

BIG-IP DNS

BIG-IP ASM

Cumulative fix details for BIG-IP v12.1.3.6 that are included in this release

720880 : Attempts to license/re-license the BIG-IP system fail.

720756 : SNMP platform name is unknown on i11400-DS/i11600-DS/i11800-DS

720695-2 : Export then import of Profile/Policy with advanced customization is failing

720391-1 : BIG-IP i7800 Dual SSD reports wrong marketing name under 'show sys hardware'

720104 : BIG-IP i2800/i2600 650W AC PSU has marketing name missing under 'show sys hardware'

720030-3 : Enable EDNS flag for internal Kerberos DNS SRV queries

718208-1 : Unable to install Network Access plugin on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 w/ Firefox v52 ESR using SUDO

718071-3 : HTTP2 with ASM policy not passing traffic

716992-3 : The ASM bd process may crash

716747-4 : TMM core with SWG Transparent

715923-3 : When processing TLS traffic TMM may reset connections

715250-2 : TMM crash when RPC resumes TCL event ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED

715207-2 : coapi errors while modifying per-request policy in VPE

715090 : PEM policy actions obtained via a PCRF are not applied for traffic generated subscribers

714879-1 : APM CRLDP Auth passes all certs

714848 : OPT-0031 and OPT-0036 log DDM warning every minute when interface disabled and DDM enabled

714542-1 : 'Always Connected Mode' text is missing in EdgeClient tray

713951-3 : tmm core files produced by nitrox_diag may be missing data

713934-4 : Using iRule 'DNS::question name' to shorten the name in DNS_REQUEST may result malformed TC response

713533-3 : list self-ip with queries does not work

713491-1 : IKEv1 logging shows spi of deleted SA with opposite endianess

713066-3 : Connection failure during DNS lookup to disabled nameserver can crash TMM

712924 : In VPE SecurID servers list are not being displayed in SecurID authentication dialogue

712857-1 : SWG-Explicit rejects large POST bodies during policy evaluation

712475-1 : DNS zones without servers will prevent DNS Express reading zone data

712464-1 : Exclude the trusted anchor certificate in hash algorithm selection when Forward Proxy forges a certificate

712437-1 : Records containing hyphens (-) will prevent child zone from loading correctly

712362-1 : ASM stalls WebSocket frames after legitimate websockets handshake with 101 status code, but without 'Switching Protocols' reason phrase

712315-1 : LDAP and AD Group Resource Assign are not displaying Static ACLs correctly

711570-1 : PEM iRule subscriber policy name query using subscriber ID, may not return applied policies

711547 : Update cipher support for Common Criteria compliance

711281-3 : nitrox_diag may run out of space on /shared

711093-2 : PEM sessions may stay in marked_for_delete state with Gx reporting and Gy enabled

710827-4 : TMUI dashboard daemon stability issue

710705-3 : Multiple Wireshark vulnerabilities

710602 : iCRD commands requiring 'root' user access fixed

710424-3 : Possible SIGSEGV in GTMD when GTM persistence is enabled.

710327-3 : Remote logger message is truncated at NULL character.

710314-2 : TMM may crash while processing HTML traffic

710244-1 : Memory Leak of access policy execution objects

710211 : Cannot edit Terminals of Macro if one or more Macrocalls point to a given Macro.

710148-4 : CVE-2017-1000111 & CVE-2017-1000112

709972-4 : CVE-2017-12613: APR Vulnerability

709688-5 : dhcp Security Advisory - CVE-2017-3144, CVE-2018-5732, CVE-2018-5733

709610-1 : Subscriber session creation via PEM may fail due to a RADIUS-message-triggered race condition in PEM

709334-2 : Memory leak when SSL Forward proxy is used and ssl re-negotiates

708956 : During system boots up, error message displays: 'Dataplane INOPERABLE - only 1 HSBes found on this platform'

708653-3 : TMM may crash while processing TCP traffic

708249-4 : nitrox_diag utility generates QKView files with 5 MB maximum file size limit

708114-3 : TMM may crash when processing the handshake message relating to OCSP, after the SSL connection is closed

708054-3 : Web Acceleration: TMM may crash on very large HTML files with conditional comments

707951 : Stalled mirrored flows on HA next-active when OneConnect is used.

707888 : Some ASM operations delayed due to scheduled ASU update

707675 : FQDN nodes or pool members flap when DNS response received

707447-2 : Default SNI clientssl profile's sni_certsn_hash can be freed while in use by other profiles.

707445 : Nitrox 3 compression hangs/unable to recover

707310-1 : DNSSEC Signed Zone Transfers of Large Zones Can Be Incomplete (missing NSEC3s and RRSIGs)

707226-2 : DB variables to disable CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown/PTI mitigations

707207-2 : iRuleLx returning undefined value may cause TMM restart

707147-2 : High CPU consumed by asm_config_server_rpc_handler_async.pl

706845-1 : False positive illegal multipart violation

706631 : A remote TLS server certificate with a bad Subject Alternative Name should be rejected when Common Criteria mode is licensed and configured.

706423-2 : tmm may restart if an IKEv2 child SA expires during an async encryption or decryption

706374-2 : [Kerberos SSO] krb5 library need to use threadsafe res_ninit, res_nsearch instead of res_init, res_search