Supplemental Document : BIG-IP 12.1.4 Fixes and Known Issues

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Original Publication Date: 01/07/2019 Updated Date: 06/22/2020

BIG-IP Release Information

Version: 12.1.4
Build: 8.0

NOTE: This release includes fixes for the Spectre Variant 1 and Meltdown vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754).
In some configurations, installing software containing these fixes might impact performance. You can disable these fixes to recover performance. Please see K91229003 for additional Spectre and Meltdown information.

Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.7 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.6 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.5 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.4 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.3 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.2 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.1 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.2 Hotfix 2 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.2 Hotfix 1 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.2 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.1 Hotfix 2 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.1 Hotfix 1 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.1 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.0 Hotfix 2 that are included in this release
Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.0 Hotfix 1 that are included in this release
Known Issues in BIG-IP v12.1.x

Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number CVE Solution Article(s) Description
671498-3 CVE-2017-3143 K02230327 BIND zone contents may be manipulated
724680-3 CVE-2018-0732 K21665601 OpenSSL Vulnerability: CVE-2018-0732
643554-12 CVE-2017-3731 CVE-2017-3732 CVE-2016-7055 K37526132 K44512851 K43570545 OpenSSL vulnerabilities - OpenSSL 1.0.2k library update
701785-3 CVE-2017-18017 K18352029 Linux kernel vulnerability: CVE-2017-18017


Functional Change Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
734527-4 3-Major   BGP 'capability graceful-restart' for peer-group not properly advertised when configured
600385-1 3-Major K43295141 BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS monitors are allowed to be configured with interval value larger than timeout
597899-1 3-Major K86025623 Disabling all pool members may not be reflected in Virtual Server status


TMOS Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
741423-1 2-Critical   Secondary blade goes offline when provisioning ASM/FPS on already established config-sync
738887-2 2-Critical   The snmpd daemon may leak memory when processing requests.
738119-3 2-Critical   SIP routing UI does not follow best practices
723722-3 2-Critical   MCPD crashes if several thousand files are created between config syncs.
723298-3 2-Critical   BIND upgrade to version 9.11.4
700386-1 2-Critical   mcpd may dump core on startup
697424 2-Critical   iControl-REST crashes on /example for firewall address-lists
691589 2-Critical   When using LDAP client auth, tamd may become stuck
689437-2 2-Critical K49554067 icrd_child cores due to infinite recursion caused by incorrect group name handling
638091-4 2-Critical   Config sync after changing named pool members can cause mcpd on secondary blades to restart
594366-1 2-Critical K21271097 Occasional crash of icrd_child when BIG-IP restarts
748187-1 3-Major   'Transaction Not Found' Error on PATCH after Transaction has been Created
720713-3 3-Major   TMM traffic to/from a i10600/i10800 device in vCMP host mode may fail
720651-3 3-Major   Running Guest Changed to Provisioned Never Stops
720461-3 3-Major   qkview prompts for password on chassis
711249-2 3-Major   NAS-IP-Address added to RADIUS packet unexpectedly
707391-4 3-Major   BGP may keep announcing routes after disabling route health injection
706354-1 3-Major   OPT-0045 optic unable to link
706104-2 3-Major   Dynamically advertised route may flap
705037-3 3-Major K32332000 System may exhibit duplicate if_index, which in some cases lead to nsm daemon restart
704449-4 3-Major   Orphaned tmsh processes might eventually lead to an out-of-memory condition
700827-2 3-Major   B2250 blades may lose efficiency when source ports form an arithmetic sequence.
700757-2 3-Major   vcmpd may crash when it is exiting
698619-1 3-Major   Disable port bridging on HSB ports for non-vCMP systems
693884-3 3-Major   ospfd core on secondary blade during network unstability
692189-3 3-Major   errdefsd fails to generate a core file on request.
689002-1 3-Major   Stackoverflow when JSON is deeply nested
676705-2 3-Major   do not run agetty on VE without serial port
673974-1 3-Major K63225596 agetty auto detects parity on console port incorrectly
671447-2 3-Major   ZebOS 7 Byte SystemID in IS-IS Restart TLV may cause adjacencies to not form
666884-2 3-Major K27056204 Message: Not enough free disk space to install! cpcfg cannot copy a configuration on a chassis platform
658557-2 3-Major   The snmpd daemon may leak memory when processing requests.
653888-2 3-Major   BGP advertisement-interval attribute ignored in peer group configuration
652877-3 3-Major   Reactivating the license on a VIPRION system may cause MCPD process restart on all secondary blades
642923-2 3-Major K01951295 MCP misses its heartbeat (and is killed by sod) if there are a large number of file objects on the system
639575-5 3-Major   Using libtar with files larger than 2 GB will create an unusable tarball
628402-4 3-Major K79213220 Operator users receive 'can't get object count from mcpd' error in response to certain commands
613509-1 3-Major K49101035 platforms using RSS DAG hash reuse source port too rapidly when the FastL4 virtual server is set to source-port preserve
610449-2 3-Major   restarting mcpd on guest makes block-device-images disappear
602566-5 3-Major   sod daemon may crash during start-up
598289-4 3-Major   TMSH prevents adding pool members that have name in format <ipv4>:<number>:<service port>
598085-2 3-Major   Expected telemetry is not transmitted by sFlow on the standby-mode unit.
563905-2 3-Major K62975642 vCMP guest fails to go Active after the host system is rebooted
491560-1 3-Major   Using proxy for IP intelligence updates
737389 4-Minor   kern.log contains many messages: warning kernel: Tracklist initialized; Tracklist destroyed
674145-3 4-Minor   chmand error log message missing data
608348-4 4-Minor   Config sync after deleting iApp f5.citrix_vdi.v2.3.0 could leave an extra tunnel object on synced system
530775-4 4-Minor   Login page may generate unexpected HTML output


Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
744117-6 2-Critical   The HTTP URI is not always parsed correctly
740490-2 2-Critical   Configuration changes involving HTTP2 or SPDY may leak memory
739927-1 2-Critical   Bigd crashes after a specific combination of logging operations
737758-1 2-Critical   MPTCP Passthrough and VIP-on-VIP can lead to TMM core
727044-1 2-Critical   TMM may crash while processing compressed data
726239-3 2-Critical   interruption of traffic handling as sod daemon restarts TMM
724868-2 2-Critical K11662998 dynconfd memory usage increases over time
716900-1 2-Critical   TMM core when using MPTCP
714181-3 2-Critical   TMM may crash while processing TCP traffic
663178-1 2-Critical   tmm may crash sometimes usng VPN
606035-1 2-Critical   csyncd crash
738521-2 3-Major   i4x00/i2x00 platforms transmit LACP PDUs with a VLAN Tag.
714559-1 3-Major   Removal of HTTP hash persistence cookie when a pool member goes down.
710028-4 3-Major   LTM SQL monitors may stop monitoring if multiple monitors querying same database
708068-3 3-Major   Tcl commands like "HTTP::path -normalize" do not return normalized path.
706102-3 3-Major   SMTP monitor does not handle all multi-line banner use cases
701678-1 3-Major   Non-TCP and non-FastL4 virtual server with rate-limits may periodically stop sending packets to server when rate exceeded
695925-3 3-Major   tmm crash when showing connections for a CMP disabled virtual server
693910-2 3-Major   Traffic Interruption for MAC Addresses Learned on Interfaces that Enter Blocked STP State (2000/4000/i2800/i4800 series)
693582-3 3-Major   Monitor node log not rotated for icmp monitor types
680264 3-Major K18653445 HTTP2 headers frame decoding may fail when the frame delivered in multiple xfrags
674591-2 3-Major K37975308 Packets with payload smaller than MSS are being marked to be TSOed
672312-2 3-Major   IP ToS may not be forwarded to serverside with syncookie activated
666595-2 3-Major   Monitor node log fd leak by bigd instances not actively monitoring node
662816-2 3-Major K61902543 Monitor node log fd leak for certain monitor types
653930-2 3-Major K69713140 Monitor with description containing backslash may fail to load.
613618-1 3-Major   The TMM crashes in the websso plugin.
611482-4 3-Major K71450348 Local persistence record kept alive after owner persistence record times out (when using pool command in an iRule) .
610138-2 3-Major   STARTTLS in SMTPS filter does not properly restrict I/O buffering
605147-1 3-Major   No mirroring for TCP TIME-WAIT reconnections and new TCP flows after HA reconnections.
598707-4 3-Major   Path MTU does not work in self-IP flows
586621-7 3-Major K36008344 SQL monitors 'count' config value does not work as expected.
628016-2 4-Minor   MP_JOIN always fails if MPTCP never receives payload data
618884-1 4-Minor   Behavior when using VLAN-Group and STP


Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
750488 3-Major   Certain BIG-IP DNS configurations improperly respond to DNS queries that contain EDNS OPT Records
750484 3-Major   Certain BIG-IP DNS configurations improperly respond to DNS queries that contain EDNS OPT Records
750472 3-Major   Certain BIG-IP DNS configurations improperly respond to DNS queries that contain EDNS OPT Records
750457 3-Major   Certain BIG-IP DNS configurations improperly respond to DNS queries that contain EDNS OPT Records
749774-2 3-Major   EDNS0 client subnet behavior inconsistent when DNS Caching is enabled
749675-2 3-Major   DNS cache resolver may return a malformed truncated response with multiple OPT records
737332-2 3-Major   It is possible for DNSX to serve partial zone information for a short period of time
723792-3 3-Major   GTM regex handling of some escape characters renders it invalid


Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
741108 2-Critical   tmm dosl7 memory leak when X-Forwared-For header value contains a long list of comma separated ip addresses
745358-4 3-Major   ASM GUI does not follow best practices
744347-1 3-Major   Protocol Security logging profiles cause slow ASM upgrade and apply policy
739945-1 3-Major   JavaScript challenge on POST with 307 breaks application
738789-3 3-Major   ASM/XML family parser does not support us-ascii encoding when it appears in the document prolog
738647-1 3-Major   Add the login detection criteria of 'status code is not X'
737998 3-Major   Brute Force end attack condition isn't satisfied for successful logins only
698757-1 3-Major K58143082 Standby system saves config and changes status after sync from peer
664714-1 3-Major   Client-side challenge is changing POST parameter value under some circumstances
642185-1 3-Major   Add support for IBM AppScan scanner schema changes
613728-1 3-Major   Import/Activate Security policy with 'Replace policy associated with virtual server' option fails
569195-1 3-Major   A Set-Cookie for an existing ASM cookie without value change
542817-1 3-Major K11619228 Specific numbers that are not credit card numbers are being masked as such
653895 4-Minor   Admin user cannot edit policy


Application Visibility and Reporting Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
616161-1 2-Critical   BD process crash and restarts
737597 3-Major   AVR DoS Attack report misses virtual server name in a specific config


Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
740777-2 2-Critical   Secondary blades mcp daemon restart when subroutine properties are configured
737442-1 2-Critical   Error in APM Hosted Content when set to public access
672221 2-Critical   TMM cores if the certificate configured to validate message signature does not exist.
631060-1 2-Critical   BIG-IP may incorrectly reject serverside connection when REQLOG is configured.
745574-4 3-Major   URL is not removed from custom category when deleted
739744-2 3-Major   Import of Policy using Pool with members is failing
726592-2 3-Major   Invalid logsetting config messaging between our daemons could send apmd, apm_websso, localdbmgr into infinite loop
628712-1 3-Major K53129098 Advanced customization doesn't work for Profiles in non-common partition with . (period) with name


WebAccelerator Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
706642-3 2-Critical   wamd may leak memory during configuration changes and cluster events
603746-1 4-Minor   DCDB security hardening
603658-1 4-Minor   AAM security hardening


Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
724532-1 2-Critical   SIG SEGV during IP intelligence category match in TMM
710755-2 2-Critical K30572159 Crash when cached route information becomes stale and the system accesses the information from it.
699454-3 4-Minor   Web UI does not follow current best coding practices
699452-3 4-Minor   Web UI does not follow current best coding practices
627454 4-Minor   Trimming leading whitespaces at logging profile creation


Carrier-Grade NAT Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
744516-2 2-Critical   TMM panics after a large number of LSN remote picks
734446-3 2-Critical   TMM crash after changing LSN pool mode from PBA to NAPT
669645-1 2-Critical K44021449 tmm crashes after LSN pool member change
663531-1 2-Critical   TMM crashes when PPTP finds a non-ALG flow when checking for an existing tunnel


Fraud Protection Services Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
746868 2-Critical   memory leakage when "apply to base domain" is enabled



Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.7 that are included in this release


Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number CVE Solution Article(s) Description
739094-4 CVE-2018-5546 K54431371 APM Client Vulnerability: CVE-2018-5546
737441-1 CVE-2018-5546 K54431371 Disallow hard links to svpn log files
726089-3 CVE-2018-15312 K44462254 Modifications to AVR metrics page
724339-2 CVE-2018-15314 K04524282 Unexpected TMUI output in AFM
724335-2 CVE-2018-15313 K21042153 Unexpected TMUI output in AFM
722091-2 CVE-2018-15319 K64208870 TMM may crash while processing HTTP traffic
717742-3 CVE-2018-2798, CVE-2018-2811, CVE-2018-2795, CVE-2018-2790, CVE-2018-2783, CVE-2018-2825, CVE-2018-2826, CVE-2018-2796, CVE-2018-2799, CVE-2018-2815, CVE-2018-2800, CVE-2018-2814, CVE-2018-2797, CVE-2018-2794 K44923228 Oracle Java SE vulnerability CVE-2018-2783
707990-3 CVE-2018-15315 K41704442 Unexpected TMUI output in SSL Certificate Instance page
704184-3 CVE-2018-5529 K52171282 APM MAC Client create files with owner only read write permissions
701253-3 CVE-2018-15318 K16248201 TMM core when using MPTCP
719554-3 CVE-2018-8897 K17403481 Linux Kernel Vulnerability: CVE-2018-8897


Functional Change Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
715750-3 3-Major   The BIG-IP system may exhibit undesirable behaviors when receiving a FIN midstream an SSL connection.
652671-4 3-Major K31326690 Provisioning mgmt plane to "large" and performing a config sync, might cause an outage on the peer unit.


TMOS Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
721924-3 2-Critical   bgpd may crash processing extended ASNs
716391-3 2-Critical K76031538 High priority for MySQL on 2 core vCMP may lead to control plane process starvation
690793-2 2-Critical K25263287 TMM may crash and dump core due to improper connflow tracking
688148-1 2-Critical   IKEv1 racoon daemon SEGV during phase-two SA list iteration
613476-2 2-Critical   IKEv1 racoon daemon delayed timer use of ike-peer (rmconf) after deletion
704247-3 3-Major   BIG-IP software may fail to install if multiple copies of the same image are present and have been deleted
686124-3 3-Major K83576240 IPsec: invalid SPI notifications in IKEv1 can cause v1 racoon faults from dangling phase2 SA refs
678380-3 3-Major K26023811 Deleting an IKEv1 peer in current use could SEGV on race conditions.
674486-5 3-Major   Expat Vulnerability: CVE-2017-9233
671712 3-Major   The values returned for the ltmUserStatProfileStat table are incorrect.
670528-1 3-Major K20251354 Warnings during vCMP host upgrade.
620746-1 3-Major   MCPD crash
580602-1 3-Major   Configuration containing LTM nodes with IPv6 link-local addresses fail to load.
551925-3 3-Major   Misdirected UDP traffic with hardware acceleration
464650-4 3-Major   Failure of mcpd with invalid authentication context.
689211-2 4-Minor   IPsec: IKEv1 forwards IPv4 packets incorrectly as IPv6 to daemon after version was { v1 v2 }
678254-2 4-Minor   Error logged when restarting Tomcat


Local Traffic Manager Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
722387-2 2-Critical   TMM may crash when processing APM DTLS traffic
716213-3 2-Critical   BIG-IP system issues TCP-Reset with error 'SSID error (Out of Bounds)' in traffic
697259-1 2-Critical K14023450 Different versioned vCMP guests on the same chassis may crash.
694656-3 2-Critical K05186205 Routing changes may cause TMM to restart
666401-2 2-Critical K03294104 Memory might become corrupted when a Standby device transitions to Active during failover
659709-1 2-Critical   Mirroring persistence records may cause a TMM memory leak
641869-1 2-Critical K62744980 Assertion "vmem_hashlist_remove not found" failed.
635191-1 2-Critical   Under rare circumstances TMM may crash
618106-1 2-Critical K74714343 bigd core due to memory leak, especially with FQDN nodes
615097-1 2-Critical   Incorrect use of HTTP::collect leads to TMM core.
513310-1 2-Critical   TMM might core when a profile is changed.
722677-3 3-Major   High-Speed Bridge may lock up
722363-1 3-Major   Client fails to connect to server when using PVA offload at Established
720293-1 3-Major   HTTP2 IPv4 to IPv6 fails
712664-4 3-Major   IPv6 NS dropped for hosts on transparent vlangroup with address equal to ARP disabled virtual-address
711981-3 3-Major   BIG-IP system accepts larger-than-egress MTU, PMTU update
700696-2 3-Major   SSID does not cache fragmented Client Certificates correctly via iRule
694697-3 3-Major K62065305 clusterd logs heartbeat check messages at log level info
693308-3 3-Major   SSL Session Persistence hangs upon receipt of fragmented Client Certificate Chain
691224-1 3-Major K59327001 Fragmented SSL Client Hello message do not get properly reassembled when SSL Persistence is enabled
671725-1 3-Major K19920320 Connection leak on standby unit
661828-1 3-Major   TMM may consume excessive resources when processing SSL traffic
632968-2 3-Major   supported_signature_algorithms extension in CertificateRequest sent by a TLS server fails
600812-1 3-Major   IPv6 virtual address with icmp-echo is enabled on a IPv6 Host IP forwarding ignores the neighbor advertisement packet.
578971-3 3-Major   When mcpd is restarted on a blade, cluster members may be temporarily marked as failed
572234-2 3-Major   When using a pool route, it is possible for TCP connections to emit packets onto the network that have a source MAC address of 00:98:76:54:32:10.
716922-4 4-Minor   Reduction in PUSH flags when Nagle Enabled
622148-5 4-Minor   flow generated icmp error message need to consider which side of the proxy they are
602708-2 4-Minor   Traffic may not passthrough CoS by default


Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
718885-1 2-Critical K25348242 Under certain conditions, monitor probes may not be sent at the configured interval
726255-3 3-Major   dns_path lingering in memory with last_access 0 causing high memory usage
719644-1 3-Major   If auto-discovery is enabled, GTM configuration may be affected after an upgrade from 11.5.x to later versions
715448-1 3-Major   Providing LB::status with a GTM Pool name in a variable caused validation issues
710246-3 3-Major   DNS-Express was not sending out NOTIFY messages on VE
636790-3 3-Major   Manager role has Create, Update, and Release access to Datacenter/links/servers/prober-pool/Topology objects but throws general error when complete.


Application Security Manager Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
739798 2-Critical   Massive number of log messages being generated and written to the bd.log.
734622 2-Critical K83093212 Policy change with newly enforced signatures causes sig collection failure in other policies
721741-2 2-Critical   BD and BD_Agent out-of-sync for IP Address Exception, false positive/negative
716788-3 2-Critical   TMM may crash while response modifications are being performed within DoSL7 filter
685230-1 2-Critical   memory leak on a specific server scenario
666221-2 2-Critical K47152503 tmm may crash from DoSL7
617391-1 2-Critical K53345828 Custom ASM Search Engines causing sync, offline, and upgrade issues
721752-1 3-Major   Null char returned in REST for Suggestion with more than MAX_INT occurrences
713282-3 3-Major   Remote logger violation_details field does not appear when virtual server has more than one remote logger
701856-2 3-Major   Memory leak in ASM-config Event Dispatcher upon continuous Policy Builder restart
701039 3-Major   Requests do not appear in local logging due to rare file descriptor exhaustion
676223-2 3-Major   Internal parameter in order not to sign allowed cookies
650070-2 3-Major K23041827 iRule that uses ASM violation details may cause the system to reset the request
648639-3 3-Major K92201230 TS cookie name contains NULL or other raw byte
646800-2 3-Major   A part of the request is not sent to ICAP server in a specific case
644725-4 3-Major K01914292 Configuration changes while removing ASM from the virtual server may cause graceful ASM restart
614730-1 3-Major   Session opening log shows incorrect number of challenged responses.
564324-2 3-Major   ASM scripts can break applications
463314-2 4-Minor   Enabling ASM AJAX blocking response page feature causing cross domain AJAX requests to fail


Application Visibility and Reporting Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
685741 3-Major   DoS Overview is very slow to load data, to the point of timeout
649177-2 3-Major K54018808 Testing for connection to SMTP Server always returns "OK"


Access Policy Manager Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
722013-3 2-Critical   MCPD restarts on all secondary blades post config-sync involving APM customization group
631286-1 2-Critical   TMM Memory leak caused by APM URI cache entries
546489-1 2-Critical   VMware View USB redirection stops working after client reconnect
739144-1 3-Major   Domain logoff scripts runs after VPN connection is closed
738397-2 3-Major   SAML -IdP-initiated case that has a per-request policy with a logon page in a subroutine fails.
726895-1 3-Major   VPE cannot modify subroutine settings
713655-3 3-Major   RouteDomainSelectionAgent might fail under heavy control plane traffic/activities
703793-1 3-Major   tmm restarts when using ACCESS::perflow get' in certain events
702873-3 3-Major   Windows Logon Integration feature may cause Windows logon screen freeze
631626 3-Major   Unable to delete an access profile which contains a route domain agent
631048-1 3-Major   Portal Access [PeopleSoft] 'My Preferences' page does not have content
596166-1 3-Major   Cannot create email using Address Book
565347-2 3-Major   Rewrite engine behaves improperly in case of AS2 SWF with a badly formatted 'push' instruction
721375 4-Minor   Export then import of config with RSA server in it might fail


Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
603755-1 2-Critical   dwbld core dump when Auto Blacklisting is configured, in a rare scenario
698806-2 3-Major   Firewall NAT Source Translation UI does not show the enabled VLAN on egress interfaces


Fraud Protection Services Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
738669-3 3-Major   Login validation may fail for a large request with early server response
716318-4 3-Major   Engine/Signatures automatic update check may fail to find/download the latest update


Traffic Classification Engine Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
726303 3-Major   Unlock 10 million custom db entry limit



Cumulative fixes from BIG-IP v12.1.3.6 that are included in this release


Vulnerability Fixes

ID Number CVE Solution Article(s) Description
716992-3 CVE-2018-5539 K75432956 The ASM bd process may crash
715923-3 CVE-2018-15317 K43625118 When processing TLS traffic TMM may reset connections
710244-1 CVE-2018-5536 K27391542 Memory Leak of access policy execution objects
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
693744-3 CVE-2018-5531 K64721111 CVE-2018-5531: vCMP vulnerability
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
710314-2 CVE-2018-5537 K94105051 TMM may crash while processing HTML traffic
710148-4 CVE-2017-1000111
CVE-2017-1000112
K60250153 CVE-2017-1000111 & CVE-2017-1000112
705476-4 CVE-2018-15322 K28003839 Appliance Mode does not follow design best practices
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
677088-4 CVE-2018-15321 K01067037 BIG-IP tmsh vulnerability CVE-2018-15321
672124-3 CVE-2018-5541 K12403422 Excessive resource usage when BD is processing requests
714879-1 CVE-2018-15326 K34652116 APM CRLDP Auth passes all certs
708653-3 CVE-2018-15311 K07550539 TMM may crash while processing TCP traffic
673165 CVE-2017-7895 K15004519 CVE-2017-7895: Linux Kernel Vulnerability


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
723130-3 2-Critical   Invalid-certificate warning displayed when deploying BIG-IP VE OVA file
707003-2 2-Critical   Unexpected syntax error in TMSH AVR
706423-2 2-Critical   tmm may restart if an IKEv2 child SA expires during an async encryption or decryption
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 K31220138 Ensure unique IKEv2 sequence numbers
599223-1 2-Critical   Prevent static destructors in tmipsecd daemon
581851-2 2-Critical K16234725 mcpd process on secondary blades unexpectedly restarts when the system processes multiple tmsh commands
559980-1 2-Critical   Change console baud rate requires reboot to take effect
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 K72040312 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 K44117473 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.
676897-1 3-Major   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
586031-1 3-Major K40453207 Configuration with LTM policy may fail to load
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
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 Nitrox3 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
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 K07330445 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 K11564 The error message 'HTTP header exceeded maximum allowed size' may list the wrong profile name
248914-4 3-Major K00612197 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   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   [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, and fixing case of multiple entries
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
666112-1 3-Major K53708490 TMM 'DoS Layer 7' memory leak during config load
663396-1 3-Major   URL Method override is enforced incorrectly after upgrade
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 my crash while processing APM or SWG traffic
715250-2 2-Critical   TMM crash when RPC resumes TCL event ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED
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 K30710317 Double-free may occur if Access initialization fails
720695-2 3-Major   Export then import of APM access Profile/Policy with advanced customization is failing
720030-3 3-Major   Enable EDNS flag for internal Kerberos DNS SRV queries in Kerberos SSO (S4U)
718208-1 3-Major   Unable to install Network Access plugin on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 with 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   Heavy use of APM Kerberos SSO can sometimes lead to memory corruption
704524-2 3-Major   [Kerberos SSO] Support for EDNS for kerberos DNS SRV queries
684937-6 3-Major K26451305 [KERBEROS SSO] Performance of LRU cache for Kerberos tickets drops gradually with the number of users
683113-6 3-Major K22904904 [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   High CPU load on generic message if multiple responses arrive while asynchronous Tcl command is running
688942-3 3-Major   ICAP: Chunk parser performs poorly with very large chunk
679114-2 3-Major   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
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 K51206433 During system boot, error message displays: 'Dataplane INOPERABLE - only 1 HSBes found on this platform'
696732 2-Critical K54431534 tmm may crash in a compression provider
697616 3-Major   Report Device error: crypto codec qat-crypto0-0 queue is stuck on vCMP guests
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
701538-1 2-Critical   SSL handshake fails for OCSP, TLS false start, and SSL hardware acceleration configured
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 K16621 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
704580-3 CVE-2018-5549 K05018525 apmd service may restart when BIG-IP is used as SAML SP while processing response from SAML IdP
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
603758-1 CVE-2018-5540 K82038789 Big3D security hardening


Functional Change Fixes

ID Number Severity Solution Article(s) Description
680850-1 3-Major K48342409 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   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 K16465222 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 K53464344 Under certain circumstances, a stale HTTP/2 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 K38159538 Downloading via APM tunnels could experience performance downgrade.
647757-2 2-Critical K96395052 RATE-SHAPER:Fred not properly initialized may halt traffic
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 HTTP/2 stream might 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   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 K00610259 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   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.


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.
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 is sent with the bytes in reverse order
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.
686305-2 CVE-2018-5534 K64552448 TMM may crash while processing SSL forward proxy traffic
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
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 K05430133 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   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 cause repeated iRule DNS-lookup hang
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 K54140729 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
664708-2 2-Critical   TMM memory leak when DoS profile is attached to VS
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 K60985582 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 K00152663 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
625602-3 4-Minor   ASM Auto-Sync Device Group Does Not Sync


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 K95422068 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   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
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 K41458656 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
683114-1 3-Major   Need support for 4th element version in Update Check
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
689080 2-Critical   Erroneous syncookie validation in HSB causes the BIG-IP system to choose the wrong MSS value
463097-3 3-Major   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 K52750813 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
687193-1 CVE-2018-5533 K45325728 TMM may leak memory when processing SSL Forward Proxy traffic
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
582773-5 CVE-2018-5532 K48224824 DNS server for child zone can continue to resolve domain names after revoked from parent
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 K36404710 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 K64537114 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 K50168519 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
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 K07298903 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 K32784801 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
677119 3-Major   HTTP2 implementation incorrectly treats SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE
676471-1 3-Major   Insufficient space for core files on i11x00-series platforms
672008-1 3-Major K22122208 NUL character inserted into syslog message when system time rolls over to exactly 1000000 microseconds
671935-2 3-Major   Possible uneven 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 K81210772 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


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.
651001-1 2-Critical   massive prints in tmm log: "could not find conf for profile crc"
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
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
631444-2 3-Major   Bot Name for ASM Search Engines is case sensitive
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
618656-2 3-Major   JavaScript challenge repeating in loop on Firefox when URL is longer than 1033 characters
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
519612-1 3-Major   JavaScript challenge fails when coming within iframe with different domain than main page


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
618902-4 3-Major   PCCD memory usage increases on configuration changes and recompilation due to small amount of memory leak on each compilation


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
584471-1 3-Major K34343741 Priority order of clientssl profile selection of virtual server.
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 K53050234 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/discard/reject commands 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 K33191529 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.
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 K40256229 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
626438-1 3-Major   Frame is not showing in the browser and/ or an error appears
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
614563-3 3-Major   AVR TPS calculation is inaccurate
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
583024-1 3-Major   TMM restart rarely during startup
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 be invalid if policies are named 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
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.
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   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   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 cert/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 stopping or restarting pkcs11d service
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 K9456 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
621808-1 3-Major   Proactive Bot Defense failing in IE11 with Compatibility View enabled
616169 3-Major   ASM Policy Export returns HTML error file
613459-1 3-Major   Non-common browsers blocked by Proactive Bot Defense
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'
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.
609496-2 3-Major   Improved diagnostics in BD config update (bd_agent) added
608509-1 3-Major   Policy learning is slow under high load
606875-1 3-Major   DoS Application - Block requests from suspicious browsers feature causes javascript latency for webapp first page
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
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
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
501892-1 3-Major   Selenium is not detected by headless mechanism when using client version without server


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
614284-2 3-Major   Performance fix to not reset a data structure in the packet receive hotpath.
608566-1 3-Major   The reference count of NW dos log profile in tmm log is incorrect
605427-1 3-Major   TMM may crash when adding and removing virtual servers with security log profiles
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)


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 v12.1.4 that are included in this release

750488 : Certain BIG-IP DNS configurations improperly respond to DNS queries that contain EDNS OPT Records

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
DNS Cache does not always include an EDNS OPT Record in responses to queries that contain an EDNS OPT Record.

Conditions:
Responses to queries with EDNS0 record to DNS Cache do not contain the RFC-required EDNS0 record.

Impact:
Some compliance tools and upstream DNS servers may consider the BIG-IP non-compliant, and report it as such.

This is occurring now because of the changes coming that remove certain workarounds on February 1st, 2019. This is known as DNS Flag Day. All network configurations on the internet will be affected by this change, but only some DNS servers will be negatively impacted. Fixes for this issue handle the conditions that were once handled by those workarounds.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Corrected EDNS OPT record handling in DNS Cache.

Note: Any NOSOA and NOAA results from the EDNS Compliance Tester used for DNS Flag Day are false positives and are expected when testing against DNS Cache. The EDNS Compliance Tester assumes an authoritative server, and makes non-recursive queries. For example, you might see a Resolver response similar to the following:

example1.com. @10.10.10.126 (ns.example1.com.): dns=nosoa,noaa edns=nosoa,noaa edns1=ok edns@512=noaa ednsopt=nosoa,noaa edns1opt=ok do=nosoa,noaa ednsflags=nosoa,noaa optlist=nosoa,noaa,subnet signed=nosoa,noaa,yes ednstcp=noaa

These types of responses are expected when running the validation tool against DNS Cache.


750484 : Certain BIG-IP DNS configurations improperly respond to DNS queries that contain EDNS OPT Records

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
DNS Cache drops a DNS query that contains an EDNS OPT Record that it does not understand.

Conditions:
If a client (such as a DNS Flag Day compliance tool) or upstream DNS Server sends an invalid ENDS OPT record.

Impact:
DNS Cache drops the request. Clients (such as a DNS Flag Day compliance tool) or upstream DNS server will experience a timeout for that query.

This is occurring now because of the changes coming that remove certain workarounds on February 1st, 2019. This is known as DNS Flag Day. All network configurations on the internet will be affected by this change, but only some DNS servers will be negatively impacted. Fixes for this issue handle the conditions that were once handled by those workarounds.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
When a query with an invalid EDNS OPT version is received by DNS Cache, the system now sends a response with the BADVERS error code, as stipulated by the RFC.

Note: Any NOSOA and NOAA results from the EDNS Compliance Tester used for DNS Flag Day are false positives and are expected when testing against DNS Cache. The EDNS Compliance Tester assumes an authoritative server, and makes non-recursive queries. For example, you might see a Resolver response similar to the following:

example1.com. @10.10.10.126 (ns.example1.com.): dns=nosoa,noaa edns=nosoa,noaa edns1=ok edns@512=noaa ednsopt=nosoa,noaa edns1opt=ok do=nosoa,noaa ednsflags=nosoa,noaa optlist=nosoa,noaa,subnet signed=nosoa,noaa,yes ednstcp=noaa

These types of responses are expected when running the validation tool against DNS Cache.


750472 : Certain BIG-IP DNS configurations improperly respond to DNS queries that contain EDNS OPT Records

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
DNS Express drops a DNS query that contains an EDNS OPT Record that it does not understand.

Conditions:
If a client (such as a DNS Flag Day compliance tool) or upstream DNS Server sends an invalid ENDS OPT record.

Impact:
DNS Express drops the request. Clients (such as a DNS Flag Day compliance tool) or upstream DNS server will experience a timeout for that query.

This is occurring now because of the changes coming that remove certain workarounds on February 1st, 2019. This is known as DNS Flag Day. All network configurations on the internet will be affected by this change, but only some DNS servers will be negatively impacted. Fixes for this issue handle the conditions that were once handled by those workarounds.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
When a query with an invalid EDNS OPT version is received by DNS Express, send a response with the BADVERS error code as stipulated by the RFC.

Note: The EDNS Compliance Tester should produce output similar to the following when run against DNS Express:

example1.com. @10.10.10.125 (ns.example1.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns@512=ok ednsopt=ok edns1opt=ok do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok signed=ok ednstcp=ok


750457 : Certain BIG-IP DNS configurations improperly respond to DNS queries that contain EDNS OPT Records

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
DNS Express does not always include an EDNS OPT Record in responses to queries that contain an EDNS OPT Record.

Conditions:
Queries to DNS Express containing an ENDS0 record it does not understand.

Impact:
DNS Express responses might not contain the RFC-required ENDS0 record. Some compliance tools and upstream DNS servers may consider the BIG-IP non-compliant, and report it as such.

This is occurring now because of the changes coming that remove certain workarounds on February 1st, 2019. This is known as DNS Flag Day. All network configurations on the internet will be affected by this change, but only some DNS servers will be negatively impacted. Fixes for this issue handle the conditions that were once handled by those workarounds.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Corrected EDNS OPT record handling in DNS Express.

Note: The EDNS Compliance Tester should produce output similar to the following when run against DNS Express:

example1.com. @10.10.10.125 (ns.example1.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns@512=ok ednsopt=ok edns1opt=ok do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok signed=ok ednstcp=ok


749774-2 : EDNS0 client subnet behavior inconsistent when DNS Caching is enabled

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
When EDNS0 client subnet information is included in a DNS request, and DNS caching is enabled, the responses differ in their inclusion of EDNS0 client subnet information based on whether the response was supplied by the cache or not.

Conditions:
This occurs when EDNS0 client subnet information is included in a DNS request, and DNS caching is enabled.

Impact:
Inconsistent behavior.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
In this release, responses are now consistent when caching is enabled.


749675-2 : DNS cache resolver may return a malformed truncated response with multiple OPT records

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
A configured DNS resolving cache returns a response with two OPT records when the response is truncated and not in the cache.

Conditions:
This can occur when:
-- A DNS resolving cache is configured.
-- The DNS query being handled is not already cached.
-- The response for the query must be truncated because it is larger than the size the client can handle (either 512 bytes or the buffer size indicated by an OPT record in the query).

Impact:
A DNS message with multiple OPT records is considered malformed and will likely be dropped by the client.

Workaround:
A second query will return the cached record, which will only have one OPT record.

Fix:
DNS cache resolver now returns the correct response under these conditions.


748187-1 : 'Transaction Not Found' Error on PATCH after Transaction has been Created

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
In systems under heavy load of transactions with multiple icrd_child processes, the system might post an erroneous 'Transaction Not Found' response after the transaction has definitely been created.

Conditions:
Systems under heavy load of transactions with multiple icrd_child processes.

Impact:
Failure to provide PATCH to a transaction whose ID has been created and logged as created.

Workaround:
If transaction is not very large, configure icrd_child to only run single-threaded.

Fix:
Erroneous 'Transaction Not Found' messages no longer occur under these conditions.


746868 : memory leakage when "apply to base domain" is enabled

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
Memory leakage when "apply to base domain" is enabled. this can result in a crash or aggressive sweeper mode.

Conditions:
"apply to base domain" is enabled in the anti-fraud profile

Impact:
Aggressive connections sweeper mode, and traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.


745574-4 : URL is not removed from custom category when deleted

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
When the admin goes to delete a certain URL from a custom category, it should be removed from the category and not be matched anymore with that category. In certain cases, the URL is not removed effectively.

Conditions:
This only occurs when the syntax "http*://" is used at the beginning of the URL when inserted into custom categories.

Impact:
When the URL with syntax "http*://" is deleted from the custom category, it will not take effect for SSL matches. For example, if "http*://www.f5.com/" was inserted and then deleted, and the user passed traffic for http://www.f5.com/ and https://www.f5.com/, the SSL traffic would still be categorized with the custom category even though it was deleted. The HTTP traffic would be categorized correctly.

Workaround:
"bigstart restart tmm" will resolve the issue.

Fix:
Made sure that the deletion takes effect properly and SSL traffic is no longer miscategorized after removal of the URL from the custom category.


745358-4 : ASM GUI does not follow best practices

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
When processing requests to the administrative webUI, ASM does not follow best practices.

Conditions:
ASM provisioned and enabled.
Authenticated user with Administrator, Resource Administrator, or ASM Administrator roles.

Impact:
Unexpected HTML output.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
When processing webUI requests ASM now follows best practices.


744516-2 : TMM panics after a large number of LSN remote picks

Component: Carrier-Grade NAT

Symptoms:
TMM panics with the assertion "nexthop ref valid" failed. This occurs after a large number of remote picks cause the nexthop reference count to overflow.

Conditions:
A LSN Pool and remote picks. Remote picks occur when the local TMM does not have any addresses or port blocks available. Remote picks are more likely when inbound and hairpin connections are enabled.

Impact:
TMM restarts. Traffic is interrupted.

Workaround:
There is no workaround.

Fix:
TMM no longer panics regardless of the number of remote picks.


744347-1 : Protocol Security logging profiles cause slow ASM upgrade and apply policy

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
ASM upgrade and apply policy are delayed by an additional 3 seconds for each virtual server associated with a Protocol Security logging profile (regardless of whether ASM is active on that virtual server). During upgrade, all active policies are applied, which leads to multiple delays for each policy.

Conditions:
There are multiple virtual servers associated with Protocol Security logging profiles.

Impact:
ASM upgrade and apply policy are delayed.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.


744117-6 : The HTTP URI is not always parsed correctly

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The HTTP URI exposed by the HTTP::uri iRule command, Traffic Policies, or used by ASM is incorrect.

Conditions:
-- HTTP profile is configured.
-- The URI is inspected.

Impact:
If the URI is used for security checks, then those checks might be bypassed.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The HTTP URI is parsed in a more robust manner.


741423-1 : Secondary blade goes offline when provisioning ASM/FPS on already established config-sync

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When provisioning ASM for the first time on a device that is already linked in a high availability (HA) config-sync configuration, any other cluster device that is on the trust domain experiences mcpd restarting on all secondary blades due to a configuration error.

The system logs messages similar to the following in /var/log/ltm:
-- notice mcpd[12369]: 010718ed:5: DATASYNC: Done initializing datasync configuration for provisioned modules [ none ].
-- err mcpd[9791]: 01020036:3: The requested device group device (/Common/datasync-device-test1.lab.com-dg /Common/test1.lab.com) was not found.
-- err mcpd[9791]: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Configuration from primary failed validation: 01020036:3: The requested device group device (/Common/datasync-device-test1.lab.com-dg /Common/test1.lab.com) was not found.... failed validation with error 16908342.
-- notice mcpd[12369]: 0107092a:5: Secondary slot 2 disconnected.

Conditions:
-- Cluster devices are joined in the trust for HA or config-sync.
-- Provisioning ASM or FPS on clusters which are already joined in a trust.
-- ASM and FPS have not been provisioned on any of the devices: this is the first ASM/FPS provisioning in the trust.

Impact:
Traffic on all secondary blades is interrupted while mcpd restarts. Then, traffic is resumed.

Workaround:
Before provisioning ASM/FPS (but after setting up a trust configuration):

1. On the device on which ASM/FPS is about to be provisioned, create the datasync-global-dg device group and add all of the available devices.

For example, if there are two devices in the Trust Domain: test1.lab.com and test2.lab.com, and you plan to provision ASM/FPS for the first time on test1.lab.com, first run the following command from test1.lab.com:

tmsh create cm device-group datasync-global-dg devices add { test1.lab.com test2.lab.com }

2. Do not sync the device group.
3. Then on test1.lab.com, you can provision ASM/FPS.

Fix:
Secondary blades no longer go offline when provisioning ASM/FPS on already established HA or config-sync configurations.


741108 : tmm dosl7 memory leak when X-Forwared-For header value contains a long list of comma separated ip addresses

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
tmm memory leak can lead to tmm out-of-memory state.

Conditions:
-- ASM provisioned.
-- ASM policy attached on a virtual server.
-- ASM policy has device ID enabled.
-- HTTP profile accept_xff enabled.

Impact:
Unexpected tmm out-of-memory state can be reached, causing sweeper activity and disrupting traffic.

Workaround:
Disable accept_xff in HTTP profile that is assigned to a virtual server along with ASM policy.

Fix:
The leak is now fixed.


740777-2 : Secondary blades mcp daemon restart when subroutine properties are configured

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Secondary blades' MCP daemons restart with the following error messages:
-- err mcpd[26818]: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Configuration from primary failed validation: 01020036:3: The requested Subroutine Properties (/Common/confirm_10 /Common/confirm_10) was not found.... failed validation with error 16908342.

Conditions:
When a subroutine is configured in the access policy.

Impact:
The secondary blade MCP daemon restarts. Cannot use subroutine in the access policy.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than to not use subroutine in the access policy.

Fix:
You can now use subroutines in the access policy.


740490-2 : Configuration changes involving HTTP2 or SPDY may leak memory

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
If virtual servers which have HTTP2 or SPDY profiles are updated, then the TMM may leak memory.

Conditions:
-- A virtual server has a HTTP2 or SPDY profile.
-- Any configuration object attached to that virtual server changes.

Impact:
The TMM leaks memory, and may take longer to execute future configuration changes. If the configuration changes take too long, the TMM may be restarted by SOD.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The TMM no longer leaks memory when virtual servers that contain a HTTP2 or SPDY profile are reconfigured.


739945-1 : JavaScript challenge on POST with 307 breaks application

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
A JavaScript whitepage challenge does not reconstruct when the challenge is on a POST request and the response from the back-end server is 307 Redirect. This happens only if the challenged URL is on a different path than the redirected URL. This prevents the application flow from completing.

Conditions:
- JavaScript challenge / CAPTCHA is enabled from either Bot Defense, Proactive Bot Defense, Web Scraping, DoSL7 Mitigation or Brute Force Mitigation.
- The challenge is happening on a POST request on which the response from the server is a 307 Redirect to a different path.

Impact:
Server is not able to parse the request payload and application does not work. This issue occurs because the TS*75 cookie is set on the path of the challenged URL, so the redirected URL does not contain the cookie, and the payload is not reconstructed properly to the server.

Workaround:
As a workaround, you can construct an iRule to identify that the response from the server is 307 Redirect, retrieve the TS*75 cookie from the request, and add to the response a Set-Cookie header, setting the TS*75 cookie on the '/' path.

Fix:
Having a JavaScript challenge on a POST request with 307 Response no longer prevents the application from working.


739927-1 : Bigd crashes after a specific combination of logging operations

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Bigd crashes. Bigd core will be generated.

Conditions:
1. Boot the system and set up any monitor.
2. Enable and disable bigd.debug:
-- tmsh modify sys db bigd.debug value enable
-- tmsh modify sys db bigd.debug value disable
3. Enable monitor logging.

Impact:
Bigd crashes.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Bigd no longer crashes under these conditions.


739798 : Massive number of log messages being generated and written to the bd.log.

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Log messages regarding parameters might fill the bd.log file. The system logs messages appear similar to the following:

deleting job-> converterd key
deleting p_node

Conditions:
No special conditions are required to cause this to occur.

Impact:
Lots of I/O processing. Potentially large bd.log file.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Fixed a scenario that resulted in a massive number of log messages being generated and written to the bd.log.


739744-2 : Import of Policy using Pool with members is failing

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Import of Policy using Pool with members is failing with an error Pool member node (/Common/u.x.y.z%0) and existing node (/Common/u.x.y.z) cannot use the same IP Address (u.x.y.z)

Conditions:
Policy has pool attached to it with resource assign or chained objects

Impact:
Policy is not being imported on the same box

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
ng-import is now importing policy correctly.


739144-1 : Domain logoff scripts runs after VPN connection is closed

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
APM Network Access option: 'Execute logoff scripts on connection termination' does not work when script runs after VPN connection is closed.

Conditions:
Following options configured for Microsoft Windows clients:
* Synchronize with Active Directory policies on connection establishment.
and
* Execute logoff scripts on connection termination.

-- Windows client is part of a domain.
-- Domain logoff script is not available without VPN connection.

Impact:
'Execute logoff scripts on connection termination' does not work when script runs after VPN connection is closed.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Changes in APM client allow it to wait until domain logoff script execution completes before closing VPN connection, so this issue no longer occurs.


739094-4 : APM Client Vulnerability: CVE-2018-5546

Solution Article: K54431371


738887-2 : The snmpd daemon may leak memory when processing requests.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, the snmpd daemon may leak memory when processing requests.

Conditions:
This issue is known to occur on a multi-blade vCMP guest after specific maintenance operations have been carried out by an Administrator on the guest.

Impact:
Once enough memory has leaked, the system may become unstable and fail unpredictably.

Workaround:
If the snmpd daemon is consuming excessive memory, restart it with the following command:

bigstart restart snmpd

Fix:
The snmpd daemon no longer leaks memory when a multi-blade vCMP guest reaches a certain condition.


738789-3 : ASM/XML family parser does not support us-ascii encoding when it appears in the document prolog

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
ASM blocks requests when a request payload is an xml document with a prolog line at the begging with encoding="us-ascii"

Conditions:
- ASM provisioned
- ASM policy attached to a virtual server
- ASM handles xml traffic with encoding="us-ascii" (this is very unlikely, the common case is encoding="utf-8")

Impact:
Blocked xml requests

Workaround:
Remove xml profile from a url in asm policy or disable XML malformed document detection via asm policy blocking settings

Fix:
xml parser is fixed and now allows encoding="us-ascii"


738669-3 : Login validation may fail for a large request with early server response

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
in case of large request/response, if FPS needs to store ingress and ingress chunks in buffer for additional processing (ingress :: for parameter parsing, egress :: for login validation's banned/mandatory strings check or scripts injection), if the server responds fast enough, the buffer may contain mixed parts of request/response. This may have several effects, from incorrectly performing login-validation to generating a tmm core file.

Conditions:
-- Login validation is enabled and configured to check for banned/mandatory string.
-- A username parameter is configured.
-- There are no parameters configured for encrypt/HTML Field Obfuscation (HFO), and no decoy parameters.
-- There is a large request and response.
-- The system response very quickly.

Impact:
This results in one or more of the following:
-- Login validation failure/skip.
-- Bad response/script injection.
-- tmm core. In this case, traffic is disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
FPS now handles ingress/egress buffers separately, so this issue no longer occurs.


738647-1 : Add the login detection criteria of 'status code is not X'

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
There is a criterion needed to detect successful login.

Conditions:
Attempting to detect successful login when the response code is not X (where 'x' = some code).

Impact:
Cannot configure login criteria.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
This release adds a new criterion to the login criteria.


738521-2 : i4x00/i2x00 platforms transmit LACP PDUs with a VLAN Tag.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A trunk configured between a BIG-IP i4x00/i2x00 platform and an upstream switch may go down due to the presence of the VLAN tag.

Conditions:
LACP configured between a BIG-IP i4x00/i2x00 platform and an upstream switch.

Impact:
Trunks are brought down by upstream switch.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than disabling LACP.

Fix:
The system no longer transmits a VLAN tag for LACP PDUs, so this issue no longer occurs.


738397-2 : SAML -IdP-initiated case that has a per-request policy with a logon page in a subroutine fails.

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
For a BIG-IP system configured as IdP, in the SAML-IdP-initiated case: If the IdP has a Per-Request policy (in addition to a V1 policy), such that the Per-Request policy has a subroutine or a subroutine macro with a logon page, the system reports access failure on running the policy.

The error logged is similar to the following: '/Common/sso_access:Common:218f759e: Authorization failure: Denied request for SAML resource /Common/saml_resource_obj1&state=000fffff032db022'.

Conditions:
-- BIG-IP system configured as IdP.
-- SAML IdP initiated case in which the following is true:
  + The IdP has a Per-Request policy (in addition to a V1 policy).
  + That Per-Request policy has a subroutine or a subroutine macro with a logon page.

Impact:
Access is denied. The request URI has '&state=<per-flow-id>' appended to the SAML Resource name.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now checks for additional query parameters in the request_uri while extracting Resource name so it is not incorrectly set to 'ResourceName&state=<per-flow-id>' which causes the access failure.


738119-3 : SIP routing UI does not follow best practices

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The SIP routing UI does not follow best practices.

Conditions:
Administrative access to the SIP Profile web UI.

Impact:
Unexpected HTML output.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The SIP routing UI does now follows best practices.


737998 : Brute Force end attack condition isn't satisfied for successful logins only

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
When brute force attack is detected and prevented by asm, asm continue to prevent login attempts even the attacking traffic has stopped 5 minutes ago.

Conditions:
- ASM provisioned
- ASM policy attached to a virtual server
- ASM Brute Force protection enabled in the asm policy
- There is an ongoing brute force attack on the backend server.

Impact:
ASM doesn't report that brute force attack is finished and logins mitigation continues to occur.

Workaround:
While ongoing endless brute force attack, change an arbitrary field in brute force configuration and apply policy. Brute force attack end event will be triggered and the system will stop brute force prevention, if the attacking traffic still being sent, new brute force attack event will be raised and the mitigation will reoccur.

Fix:
Fix brute force end condition check for a case when only successful logins are sent.


737758-1 : MPTCP Passthrough and VIP-on-VIP can lead to TMM core

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
If a FastL4 virtual server has an iRule that uses the 'virtual' command to direct traffic to a virtual server with MPTCP passthrough enabled, TMM may produce a core upon receiving certain traffic.

Conditions:
A FastL4 virtual server has an iRule that uses the 'virtual' command to direct traffic to a virtual server with a TCP profile attached that has MPTCP passthrough enabled, and certain traffic is received.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than not using an iRule with the 'virtual' command to direct traffic to a virtual server with MPTCP passthrough enabled.

Fix:
If MPTCP passthrough is enabled, the system now processes incoming MPTCP connections coming from the loop device as if MPTCP is disabled.


737597 : AVR DoS Attack report misses virtual server name in a specific config

Component: Application Visibility and Reporting

Symptoms:
DoS AVR Report GUI page is under:
Navigate to Security :: Reporting : DoS : Network

The report shows the attack, but categorizes the attack under 'Aggregated' in the Virtual Server name value, rather than the actual name of the Virtual Server on which the attack is happening.

Conditions:
-- A Virtual Server is configured with a IP/Subnet range.

For example,
-- Virtual Server with Destination Address: 10.10.10.0/27 (meaning the destination range is 10.10.10.32 - 10.10.10.63).
-- Destination Address of the Client Traffic and Attack: 10.10.10.63

View AVR Reporting, which does not resolve the to any specific Virtual Server, but instead categorizes the attack as 'Aggregate'.

Impact:
AVR report missing the Virtual Server information.

Workaround:
None.


737442-1 : Error in APM Hosted Content when set to public access

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Error when rendering APM Hosted content when set to public access.

Conditions:
APM enabled
Hosted content enabled
Hosted content set to public access

Impact:
Unexpected HTML output in webtop pages

Workaround:
when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
    ACCESS::restrict_irule_events disable
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
   if {[HTTP::uri] starts_with "/vdesk/resource_info_v2.xml?" && [URI::decode [HTTP::query]] contains "<"} {
     HTTP::uri [HTTP::path]
   }
}

Fix:
None.


737441-1 : Disallow hard links to svpn log files

Solution Article: K54431371


737389 : kern.log contains many messages: warning kernel: Tracklist initialized; Tracklist destroyed

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
There may be a large number of messages in /var/log/kern.log similar to the following:

Tracklist initialized
Tracklist destroyed

Conditions:
This can happen when vCMP is provisioned, which enables SR-IOV mode.

Impact:
It causes messages to show up in /var/log/kern.log, but does not affect traffic. This is a cosmetic issue and does not indicate a functionality issue.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Tracklist is now disabled, so this issue no longer occurs.


737332-2 : It is possible for DNSX to serve partial zone information for a short period of time

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
During zone transfers into DNS Express, partial zone data may be available until the transfer completes.

Conditions:
-- Two zones being transferred during the same time period
  + zone1.example.net
  + zone2.example.net

-- Transfer of zone1 has started, but not finished.

-- zone2 starts a transfer and finishes before zone1 finishes, meaning that the database might be updated with all of the zone2 data, and only part of the zone1 data.

Impact:
Partial zone data will be served, including possible NXDOMAIN or NODATA messages. This happens until zone1 finishes and saves to the database, at which time both zones' data will be complete and correct.

Workaround:
The workaround is to limit the number of concurrent transfers to 1. However this severely limits the ability of DNS Express to update zones in a timely fashion if there are many zones and many updates.

Fix:
All zone transfers are now staged until they are complete. The zone transfer data is then saved to the database. Only when the zone data has completed updating to the database will the data be available to queries.


734622 : Policy change with newly enforced signatures causes sig collection failure in other policies

Solution Article: K83093212

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
An ASM policy change with newly enforced signatures causes a signature collection failure in all other policies.

Conditions:
An ASM policy is changed by adding newly enforced signatures.

Impact:
Signature collection failures are logged for all other policies.

Workaround:
For each other policy on the device, make a spurious change (such as modifying policy description and saving) and apply the policy. Alternatively, a new user-defined signature which would be included in enforcement can be spuriously added and then immediately removed.


734527-4 : BGP 'capability graceful-restart' for peer-group not properly advertised when configured

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
BGP neighbor using peer-group with 'capability graceful-restart' enabled (which is the default). However, on the system, peer-group defaults to disable. Because there is no config statement to enable 'capability graceful-restart' after restart, it gets turned off after config load, which also turns it off for any BGP neighbor using it.

Conditions:
- Neighbor configured to use peer-group.
- Peer-group configured with capability graceful-restart, but with the default: disabled.

Impact:
Because peer-group is set to disable by default, and there is no operation to enable it after restart, 'capability graceful-restart' gets turned off after config load, and neighbors using it from peer-group get turned off as well.

Workaround:
Re-issue the commands to set peer-group 'capability graceful-restart' and 'clear ip bgp *' to reset BGP neighbors.

Fix:
The peer-group now has 'capability graceful-restart' enabled by default, so this issue no longer occurs.

Behavior Change:
In this release, peer-group has 'capability graceful-restart' enabled by default.


734446-3 : TMM crash after changing LSN pool mode from PBA to NAPT

Component: Carrier-Grade NAT

Symptoms:
TMM crashes after changing LSN pool mode from PBA to NAPT when long lived connections are killed due to the PBA block lifetime and zombie timeout expiring.

Conditions:
An LSN pool using PBA mode with a block lifetime and zombie timeout set and long lived connections.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Instead of changing the LSN pool mode from PBA to NAPT, create a new LSN pool configured for NAPT and change the source-address-translation pool on the virtual servers that use the PBA pool.

The PBA pool can be deleted after the virtual servers are no longer using it.

Fix:
TMM no longer crashes after changing LSN pool mode from PBA to NAPT.


727044-1 : TMM may crash while processing compressed data

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, TMM may crash while processing compressed data.

Conditions:
Compression enabled
Hardware compression disabled

Impact:
TMM crash leading to a failover event.

Workaround:
No workaround.

Fix:
TMM now correctly processes compressed traffic


726895-1 : VPE cannot modify subroutine settings

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Open per-request policy in Visual Policy Editor (VPE) that has a subroutine. Click 'Subroutine Settings / Rename.

Numeric values like the inactivity timeout are displayed as 'NaN. Attempts to modify the values results in MCP validation errors.

Conditions:
-- Per-request policy in the VPE.
-- Subroutine in the per-request policy.
-- Attempt to change the values.

Impact:
All fields say 'NaN', and error when trying to modify properties. Subroutine settings like the Inactivity Timeout and Gating Criteria cannot be modified through the VPE

Workaround:
Use tmsh to modify these values, for example:

tmsh modify apm policy access-policy <policy_name> subroutine properties modify { all { inactivity-timeout 301 } }

Fix:
The issue has been fixed; it is now possible to view and modify subroutine settings in the VPE.


726592-2 : Invalid logsetting config messaging between our daemons could send apmd, apm_websso, localdbmgr into infinite loop

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Invalid logsetting config messaging between our daemons could send apmd, apm_websso, localdbmgr into infinite loop. This could be triggered by invalid state of our control plane daemons.

Conditions:
This is an extremely rare situation that can be caused by invalid logsetting config messaging between our daemons. However, once it happens it can impact multiple daemons at the same time causing all of them to hang.

Impact:
Once this happens it can impact multiple daemons (apmd, apm_websso, localdbmgr) at the same time causing all of them to hang.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time, you can recover by restarting the daemons that hang.

Fix:
We have fixed a memory corruption that can break the linkages in our data structure which would cause certain traversals to loop indefinitely.


726303 : Unlock 10 million custom db entry limit

Component: Traffic Classification Engine

Symptoms:
Cannot add more than 10 million custom db entries.

Conditions:
This happens when you try to add more than 10 million custom db entries.

Impact:
Not able to add more than 10 million entries.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
This release provides a sys db var, tmm.urlcat.no_db_limit, to allow growth beyond the existing limit of 10 million custom db entries.


726255-3 : dns_path lingering in memory with last_access 0 causing high memory usage

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
dns_path not released after exceeding the inactive path ttl.

Conditions:
1. Multiple tmm's in sync group
2. Multiple dns paths per GTM needed for load balancing.

Impact:
High memory usage.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
dns_path memory will be released after ttl.


726239-3 : interruption of traffic handling as sod daemon restarts TMM

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When the receiving host in a TCP connection has set its send window to zero (stopping the flow of data), following certain unusual protocol sequences, the logic in the TMM that persists in probing the zero window may enter an endless loop.

Conditions:
When the TCP implementation is probing a zero-window connection under control of a persist timer.

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

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
This fix handles a rare TMM crash when TCP persist timer is active.


726089-3 : Modifications to AVR metrics page

Solution Article: K44462254


724868-2 : dynconfd memory usage increases over time

Solution Article: K11662998

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
dynconfd memory usage slowly increases over time as it processes various state-related messages.

Conditions:
No special conditions as dynconfd is a core LTM process. Large numbers of pool members combined with flapping might increase the rate of memory usage increase.

Impact:
dynconfd grows over time and eventually the system is pushed into swap. Once swap is exhausted, the Linux OOM killer might terminate critical system processes, disrupting operation.

Workaround:
Periodic restarts of dynconfd avoids the growth affecting the system.

Fix:
dynconfd no longer leaks memory when processing messages.


724680-3 : OpenSSL Vulnerability: CVE-2018-0732

Solution Article: K21665601


724532-1 : SIG SEGV during IP intelligence category match in TMM

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
TMM restart while matching traffic from source IP to IP Intelligence category.

Conditions:
Multiple configuration changes that include deleting the custom IP intelligence categories.

Impact:
TMM restart. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM no longer restarts while matching traffic from source IP to IP Intelligence category.


724339-2 : Unexpected TMUI output in AFM

Solution Article: K04524282


724335-2 : Unexpected TMUI output in AFM

Solution Article: K21042153


723792-3 : GTM regex handling of some escape characters renders it invalid

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
The memory footprint of big3d increases.

Conditions:
GTM monitor recv string such as the following: ^http\/\d\.\d[23]\d\d

Impact:
Escaped characters are mishandled. This causes the regex compilation to fail and leak memory. The monitor marks the server it is monitoring UP as long as the server returns any response.

Workaround:
If you notice big3d memory footprint increase and you have a monitor recv string that has escaped characters such as '^http\/\d\.\d[23]\d\d', try changing the recv string to something similar to the following: ^HTTP/[0-9][.][0-9] [23][0-9]{2}

Fix:
Fixed handling of escape characters. Recv strings that previously failed to compile will now compile.


723722-3 : MCPD crashes if several thousand files are created between config syncs.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
If more than several thousand (typically 20,000, but number varies by platform) files, for example SSL certificates or keys, are created between config syncs, the next config sync operation will take too long and mcpd will be killed by sod.

Conditions:
Creation of several thousand SSL certificates or keys followed by a config sync operation.

Impact:
Traffic is disrupted while the MCPD process restarts.

Workaround:
Run a config sync operation after every ~5000 files created.

Fix:
MCPD no longer crashes if several thousand files are created between config sync operations.


723298-3 : BIND upgrade to version 9.11.4

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The BIG-IP system is running BIND version 9.9.9.

Conditions:
BIND on BIG-IP system.

Impact:
BIND 9.9 Extended Support Version was supported until June, 2018.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
BIND version has been upgraded to 9.11.4.


723130-3 : Invalid-certificate warning displayed when deploying BIG-IP VE OVA file

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The OVA signing certificate that signs BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) OVA files expired. When deploying a BIG-IP VE from an OVA file, an invalid-certificate warning might be displayed due to the expired OVA signing certificate.

Conditions:
This issue may be encountered during the creation of new instances of BIG-IP VE in clients that check the validity of the OVA signing certificate (e.g., VMware).

Note: Existing BIG-IP VE instances are not subject to this issue.

Impact:
There might be questions about the integrity of the OVA file, and in some cases, might not be able to deploy a new instance from an OVA file.

Workaround:
The expired OVA signing certificate has been replaced with a valid signing certificate.

Fix:
The expired OVA signing certificate has been replaced with a valid signing certificate.


722677-3 : High-Speed Bridge may lock up

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, hardware systems with a High-Speed Bridge and using Layer 2 forwarding configurations may experience a lockup of the High-Speed Bridge.

Conditions:
Hardware platform with High-Speed Bridge.
Layer 2 forwarding enabled.
vlangroup.flow.allocate disabled.

Impact:
High-Speed Bridge lockup, leading to a failover event.

Workaround:
The vlangroup.flow.allocate DB variable is enabled by default.

Ensure that vlangroup.flow.allocate is enabled with the command:
modify /sys db vlangroup.flow.allocate value enable


722387-2 : TMM may crash when processing APM DTLS traffic

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When processing DTLS traffic for APM, TMM may crash.

Conditions:
APM provisioned and configured.
DTLS enabled in APM configuration.

Impact:
TMM crash, leading to a failover event.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
DTLS traffic is now processed as expected.


722363-1 : Client fails to connect to server when using PVA offload at Established

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A client can fail to connect to the server on subsequent attempts if using FastL4 with hardware (HW) acceleration.

When this issue occurs, the profile_bigproto_stat/rxsynatestablished stat is non-zero.

Conditions:
A FastL4 virtual server is configured with offload_state = EST.

Impact:
Clients fail to connect to the server.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than to disable PVA acceleration.


722091-2 : TMM may crash while processing HTTP traffic

Solution Article: K64208870


722013-3 : MCPD restarts on all secondary blades post config-sync involving APM customization group

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
After performing a series of specific config-sync operations between multi-blade systems, the MCPD daemon restarts on all secondary blades of one of the systems.

Each affected blade will log an error message similar to the following example:

-- err mcpd[5038]: 01070711:3: Caught runtime exception, Failed to collect files (snapshot path () req (7853) pmgr (7853) not valid msg (create_if { customization_group { customization_group_name "/Common/Test-A_secure_access_client_customization" customization_group_app_id "" customization_group_config_source 0 customization_group_cache_path "/config/filestore/files_d/Common_d/customization_group_d/:Common:Test-A_secure_access_client_customization_66596_1" customization_group_system_path "" customization_group_is_system 0 customization_group_access 3 customization_group_is_dynamic 0 customization_group_checksum "SHA1:62:fd61541c1097d460e42c50904684def2794ba70d" customization_group_create_time 1524643393 customization_group_last_update_time 1524643393 customization_group_created_by "admin" customization_group_last_updated_by "admin" customization_group_size 62 customization_group_mode 33188 customization_group_update_revision 1

Conditions:
This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met:

- You have configured a device-group consisting of multi-blade systems (such as VIPRION devices or vCMP guests).

- Systems are provisioned for APM.

- The device-group is configured for incremental manual synchronizations.

- On one system (for example, source_system), you create an APM configuration object (for example, a connectivity profile) that causes the automatic creation of an associated customization group.

- You synchronize the configuration from the source_system to the device-group.

- On the source_system, you create a new configuration object of any kind (for example, an LTM node).

- Instead of synchronizing the newest configuration to the device-group, you synchronize the configuration from another device in the device-group to the source_system (which effectively undoes your recent change).

- The MCPD daemon restarts on all secondary blades of the source_system.

Impact:
While the MCPD daemon restarts, the blade is offline, and many other BIG-IP daemons need to restart along with MCPD.

-- If the source_system is Active, the load capacity of the system temporarily decreases proportionally to the number of blades restarting. Additionally, if the systems use the min-up-members or HA-Group features, losing a certain number of secondary blades may trigger a failover.

-- If the source_system is Standby, some of the previously mirrored information may become lost as TMM on secondary blades restarts along with MCPD. Should this system later become the Active system, traffic may be impacted by the lack of previously mirrored information.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The MCPD daemon no longer restarts on secondary blades after config-sync of APM.


721924-3 : bgpd may crash processing extended ASNs

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions bgpd may crash while processing extended ASNs.

Conditions:
Dynamic routing enabled.
Extended ASP capabilities enabled: bgp extended-asn-cap enabled

Impact:
Dynamic routing disrupted while bgpd restarts.

Fix:
bgpd now processes extended ASNs as expected.


721752-1 : Null char returned in REST for Suggestion with more than MAX_INT occurrences

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Unable to view ASM event log details for a majority of violations.

Conditions:
Suggestion with more than MAX_INT (2,147,483,647) occurrences.

Impact:
Null char returned in REST for Suggestion with more than MAX_INT occurrences.

Workaround:
Use the following sql command:

UPDATE PLC.PL_SUGGESTIONS set occurrence_count = 2147483647 where occurrence_count < 0;

Fix:
Null char is no longer returned in REST for Suggestion with more than MAX_INT occurrences.


721741-2 : BD and BD_Agent out-of-sync for IP Address Exception, false positive/negative

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
bd log spits this error.
-------
ECARD_POLICY|NOTICE|May 24 04:49:42.035|4143|table.h:2408|IPTableList::del_object key not found in table
ECARD|ERR |May 24 04:49:42.035|4143|table.h:0398|KEY_UPDATE: Failed to REMOVE data will continue to add
-------

Conditions:
Configuring IP Address Exceptions in certain order - w/ and w/o route domain.

Impact:
BD and BD_Agent out-of-sync for IP Address Exception, causes false positives / false negatives

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
System no longer generates these false positive/negative log entries.


721375 : Export then import of config with RSA server in it might fail

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
If an exported policy configuration contains both an RSA server as well as the RSA-provided sdconf.rec and sdstatus.12 config files, policy import might fail.

Conditions:
-- RSA server and access profile are in the same, non-Common partition.
-- Exported policy contains an RSA server as well as both the RSA-provided sdconf.rec and sdstatus.12 config files.

Impact:
Unable to import the exported configuration. This occurs because of how the names for the files are resolved in the exported configuration.

Workaround:
Although there is no actual workaround, you can avoid this issue if the profile is outside of the partition. That case uses a different name resolution during the export, so import works as expected.

Fix:
You can now successfully import an exported policy containing an RSA server as well as both sdconf.rec and sdstatus.12 files.


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.


720713-3 : TMM traffic to/from a i10600/i10800 device in vCMP host mode may fail

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When a i10600/i10800 device is configured as a vCMP host and at least one vCMP guest is running (or ever ran), TMM traffic to the vCMP host may fail.

Note: Management port traffic to/from the device is unaffected.

Note: TMM traffic to/from the vCMP guests running on the device is unaffected. This issue affects only the vCMP host.

The most visible symptom is that TMM on the vCMP host fails to answer ARP requests that it receives for its own Self-IP addresses.

Conditions:
This issue occurs when all of the following conditions apply:

- i10600/i10800 device in vCMP host mode.

- At least one vCMP guest is deployed or was deployed, at some point.

Impact:
Inability to communicate to/from the vCMP host via its Self-IP addresses.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The vCMP host continues to handle traffic correctly once a guest is started.


720695-2 : Export then import of APM access 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:
Access policy import containing advanced customization now succeeds.


720651-3 : Running Guest Changed to Provisioned Never Stops

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
After changing a vCMP guest status to provisioned the guest remains running showing a status of stopping.

Conditions:
-- Guests deployed on a BIG-IP VCMP host.
-- Changing the state from deployed to provisioned.

Impact:
Guests do not stop and change status until vcmpd process is restarted.

Workaround:
There is no workaround.

Fix:
The guest now stops when the state is changed from deployed to provisioned.


720461-3 : qkview prompts for password on chassis

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Qkview prompts for a password when executing getnodedates from the chassis module.

Conditions:
SSH auth keys are missing or corrupted.

Impact:
This blocks collecting qkview.

Workaround:
Edit the /user/bin/getnodedates script and add -oBatchMode=yes for the SSH command as shown in the following example:

        $date = `/usr/bin/ssh -q -oBatchMode=yes -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no $ip /bin/date`;

Fix:
The qkview is no longer blocked with a password prompt.


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 'none', 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.


720293-1 : HTTP2 IPv4 to IPv6 fails

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
An IPv4-formatted virtual server with an IPv6-formatted pool member cannot establish the connection to the pool member if HTTP2 is configured.

Conditions:
-- IPv4 virtual Server.
-- IPv6 pool member.
-- HTTP2 profile.

Impact:
Traffic connection does not establish; no traffic passes.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
In this release, an IPv4-formatted virtual server with an IPv6-formatted pool member works with HTTP2.


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 in Kerberos SSO (S4U)

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).


719644-1 : If auto-discovery is enabled, GTM configuration may be affected after an upgrade from 11.5.x to later versions

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
When an LTM configuration has virtual server names containing period (.), a GTM configuration with auto-discovery enabled is upgraded from v11.5.x to a later version might lose consistency.

Conditions:
-- Upgrading GTM from v11.5.x to later versions (e.g., BIG-IP DNS v12.x).
-- Auto-discovery is enabled.
-- LTM configuration containing virtual server names containing the period character (.).
-- The same virtual server name is used in multiple partitions.

Impact:
The configuration after the upgrade might be affected in the following ways:
-- Missing virtual servers.
-- Deletion of some pool members.
-- Virtual servers with incorrect addresses.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
This release supports GTM upgrades from 11.x to BIG-IP DNS 12.x and later versions for cases where:
-- Auto-discovery is enabled.
-- LTM virtual server name a period character (.).
-- The same virtual server name is used in multiple partitions.


719554-3 : Linux Kernel Vulnerability: CVE-2018-8897

Solution Article: K17403481


718885-1 : Under certain conditions, monitor probes may not be sent at the configured interval

Solution Article: K25348242

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
When sufficient resources are configured with the same monitor interval, and the monitor timeout value is no more than two times the monitor interval, the monitored resource may be marked as unavailable (due to a timeout) then immediately changed to available.

Conditions:
Monitor interval is lower than the number of resources configured with the same monitor interval.

Impact:
Monitor probes are not consistently performed at the configured interval.

Workaround:
Set the monitor interval to a value greater than the number of resources monitored using that same interval value.

The key to this workaround is to ensure that the sum of the resources monitored at a given interval is not greater than the interval. That can be accomplished several ways depending on your configuration and requirements.

For example, if the monitoring interval is 30 seconds and there are 40 different monitors with a 30-second interval and each monitor is assigned to exactly one resource, there are at least two options:

-- Change the interval for 10 of the monitors to a different value.

-- Set the monitor interval to 40.

Note: If you change the monitor interval, make sure to also change the timeout value to follow best practices:
timeout value = (3 x interval) + 1.

Fix:
Monitoring is now consistently performed at the configured interval regardless of the number of resources with the same monitor interval.


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

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
When using Firefox v52 ESR to install SVPN client, the SVPN client keeps prompting to enter SUDO credentials.

Conditions:
Using Firefox v52 ESR to install SVPN client.

Impact:
Cannot install SVPN client using Firefox v52 ESR browser

Workaround:
Follow this procedure to workaround this problem:

1. Delete the NPAPI plugin from the browser.
2. Install SVPN client manually.
3. Use Firefox v52 ESR to connect to APM.

Fix:
This issue has been fixed, and now you can install the SVPN client using SUDO successfully.


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.


717742-3 : Oracle Java SE vulnerability CVE-2018-2783

Solution Article: K44923228


716992-3 : The ASM bd process may crash

Solution Article: K75432956


716922-4 : Reduction in PUSH flags when Nagle Enabled

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When Nagle is enabled in the TCP profile, the number of PUSH flags generated by the BIG-IP system drops substantially compared to the Nagle-disabled case, or to the Nagle-enabled case prior to v12.1.2-HF1. This matters most when there is a single outstanding unsent segment in the send buffer awaiting acknowledgment of all other data.

Conditions:
-- Nagle is enabled.
-- Running BIG-IP software versions later than v12.1.2-HF1.

Note: The problem is only impactful when the client withholds ACKs when there is no PUSH flag.

Impact:
If the client withholds ACKs, this can save handset power, but it also causes Nagle's algorithm to withhold the last bit of data, increasing latency.

Workaround:
Set Nagle to the 'Auto' setting or 'Disabled'.

Mote: To take advantage of some of the Nagle benefits, use 'Auto'.

Fix:
Revised PUSH flag setting logic to set the flag in cases where sending is Nagle-limited.


716900-1 : TMM core when using MPTCP

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
In some cases TMM may crash when processing MPTCP traffic.

Conditions:
A TCP profile with 'Multipath TCP' enabled is attached to a virtual server.

Impact:
Traffic interrupted while TMM restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than to disable MPTCP.

Fix:
TMM no longer produces a core.


716788-3 : TMM may crash while response modifications are being performed within DoSL7 filter

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
TMM might crash when a response is modified by the DoSL7 filter while injecting an HTML response from a backend server.

Conditions:
-- ASM provisioned.
-- DoS application profile is attached to a virtual server.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts, failover may occur.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than to remove the DoS application profile from the virtual server.

Fix:
Response modification handler has been modified so that this issue no longer occurs.


716747-4 : TMM my crash while processing APM or SWG traffic

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain circumstances, TMM may crash when processing APM or SWG.

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:
APM or SWG enabled.

Impact:
TMM crash, leading to a failover event.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
TMM now processes APM and SWG traffic as expected.


716391-3 : High priority for MySQL on 2 core vCMP may lead to control plane process starvation

Solution Article: K76031538

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
vCMP guest with only 2 cores (or 2 cores per blade for multi-blade guests) may undergo control plane process starvation, which could lead to failover due to CPU starvation of sod.

Conditions:
-- A device using Intel Hyper-Threading Technology is configured with only 2 cores (or 2 cores per blade for multi-blade vCMP guests).
-- A module using MySQL is provisioned, MySQL, for example BIG-IP ASM and BIG-IP Analytics (AVR). These other modules also implicitly provision AVR: ASM, AFM, DOS, APM, PEM, and vCMP.

Impact:
Control plane processes may experience CPU starvation, including failover due to CPU starvation of sod. This is a rarely occurring issue.

Workaround:
Revert to pre-11.5.1 HF4 behavior by setting the scheduler.splitplanes.asmopt database key to false.
 
IMPORTANT: You should not revert to pre-11.5.1 HF4 behavior unless requested by F5 Support. However, if required, you can disable this new behavior and revert to pre-11.5.1-HF4 behavior. For instructions on how to do so, see K16469: Certain BIG-IP ASM control plane processes are now pinned to the highest-numbered logical CPU core :: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K16469.


716318-4 : Engine/Signatures automatic update check may fail to find/download the latest update

Component: Fraud Protection Services

Symptoms:
Engine/Signatures automatic update check may fail to find/download the latest update if the timestamp of the factory update file is later than the timestamp of the update file in downloads.f5.com.

Note: This issue is relevant only for engineering hotfixes.

Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
-- Engineering hotfix.
-- The factory update file timestamp is later than the timestamp of the update file in downloads.f5.com.

Impact:
Automatic update check will detect the wrong update file.

Workaround:
Manually check, and then download and install the update file from downloads.f5.com, if needed.

Fix:
The factory update file timestamp is now set to 0, unless there is a reason to install the factory file over the current update file in downloads.f5.com.


716213-3 : BIG-IP system issues TCP-Reset with error 'SSID error (Out of Bounds)' in traffic

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When APM connects to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), a blank page is observed. The log file /var/log/ltm exhibits a TCP reset issued by the BIG-IP system. The TCP capture informs that the issue is due to an out-of-bounds error that occurs when traffic gets parsed by the SSL Persistence Parser (SSID).

Conditions:
-- SSL persistence (SSID) is enabled for a virtual host.
-- APM connects to ADFS.

Impact:
A blank page is observed due to the TCP reset.

Workaround:
No workaround is available.

Fix:
The SSL persistence parser now validates the handshake message data-bytes are available prior to fetching them, so the bounds error does not get raised.


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

Solution Article: K43625118


715750-3 : The BIG-IP system may exhibit undesirable behaviors when receiving a FIN midstream an SSL connection.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Upon receiving a FIN midstream in an SSL connection, the BIG-IP system will immediately proxy the FIN to the remote host on the peer side. At this point, depending on the specific configuration of the remote host on the peer side, the BIG-IP system may exhibit behaviors that may be deemed undesirable.

For instance, if the remote host on the peer side acknowledges the FIN but ignores it and keeps sending data to the BIG-IP system, the BIG-IP system will drop all ingress data (i.e., not proxy it) while keeping the side that transmitted the original FIN open indefinitely.

Once the remote host on the peer side completes transmitting data and sends a FIN of its own, the BIG-IP system will finally release the side that sent the original FIN by allowing it to close.

Conditions:
This issue occurs when the following conditions are met:

-- A standard virtual server with the clientssl and serverssl profiles in use.

-- As part of a connection handled by the virtual server, one side sends a FIN midstream to the BIG-IP system.

Impact:
There is no real impact to the BIG-IP system because of this issue. However, both the client and the server can be negatively impacted by this issue.

For example, if the original FIN was received by the BIG-IP system on the clientside:

-- The client connection is not allowed to close for potentially a very long time. During this time, the client does not receive anything other than Keep-Alive packets from the BIG-IP system. This can delay or adversely impact applications on the client.

-- The server continues to send data to the BIG-IP system unnecessarily. After accounting for the fact this could be a lot of data and many connections could be in this state, the server and/or its surrounding network could become impacted/congested. At a minimum, this might cause a waste of resources.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
SSL shutdown behavior is controlled with profile option 'Alert Timeout', which specifies the duration in time for the system to try to close an SSL connection before resetting the connection. The default is 'Indefinite'.

Behavior Change:
SSL shutdown behavior is controlled with profile option 'Alert Timeout', which specifies the duration in time for the system to try to close an SSL connection before resetting the connection. The default is 'Indefinite'.


715448-1 : Providing LB::status with a GTM Pool name in a variable caused validation issues

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
When utilizing an LB::status iRule where the GTM Pool name was provided in a variable, instead of directly written into the command, the system posts the following error message: Can't read 'monkey': no such variable.

Conditions:
LB::status pool a <Variable containing string>.

Impact:
Unable to use LB::status iRule.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Can now use LB::status iRule command to display the status of a GTM Pool when the name of the pool is provided in a variable.


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:
Now per-request access policies can be simultaneously used and edited without causing spurious 'coapi' log errors.


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

Solution Article: K34652116


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.


714559-1 : Removal of HTTP hash persistence cookie when a pool member goes down.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When HTTP cookie hash persistence is configured the cookie is removed when a pool member goes down. This is incorrect if pool members are using session replication.

Conditions:
- Cookie hash persistence is configured.
- A pool member that the persistence record points to goes down.
- Pool members are using session replication.

Impact:
Connected clients must establish a new session.

Workaround:
To configure HTTP cookie hash persistence, use an iRule similar to the following:

when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
    persist cookie hash JSESSIONID
}

Fix:
HTTP hash persistence cookie is no longer removed when a pool member goes down.

If you need to remove the cookie, use an iRule similar to the following:

when PERSIST_DOWN {
    HTTP::cookie remove JSESSIONID
}


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.


714181-3 : TMM may crash while processing TCP traffic

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Under certain conditions TMM may crash while processing TCP data

Conditions:
TCP profile enabled
TCP Segment Offload enabled

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
none

Fix:
TMM now processes TCP traffic as expected


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.


713655-3 : RouteDomainSelectionAgent might fail under heavy control plane traffic/activities

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
If per-session access policy requests route domain selection during policy evaluation, the agent might hang and fail to retrieve route domain information. APMD might restart and produce a core file.

Conditions:
-- Policy sync operation.
-- System receives a query for route domain information.
-- There is a heavy load of control plane traffic to process.

Impact:
Poor performance and/or APMD restarts with a core file, causing brief disruption of the authentication service.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Route domain selection operations no longer fail under heavy control-plane traffic/activities.


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.


713282-3 : Remote logger violation_details field does not appear when virtual server has more than one remote logger

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Remote logger violation_details field appears empty.

Conditions:
-- More than one remote logger is attached to the virtual server.
-- A violation occurs.
-- Viewing the associated log.

Impact:
Violation_details field appears empty in logs.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
Remote logger violation_details field is now populated as expected when the virtual server has more than one remote logger.


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).


712664-4 : IPv6 NS dropped for hosts on transparent vlangroup with address equal to ARP disabled virtual-address

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
As a result of a known issue IPv6 NS may be dropped if corresponds for host on remote VLAN of transparent vlangroup and matches a Virtual address with disabled ARP setting

Conditions:
- transparent vlan-group
 - Virtual Address with ARP disabled
 - Virtual Address corresponds to remote IPv6 host address

Impact:
NS for the host is dropped.
Traffic will not reach the remote host as resolution does not complete.

Workaround:
Do not use overlapping Virtual-addresses with ARP disabled, or enable ARP.

Fix:
IPv6 NS is no longer dropped for hosts on transparent vlangroup with address equal to ARP disabled virtual-address.


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


711981-3 : BIG-IP system accepts larger-than-egress MTU, PMTU update

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A Path MTU (PMTU) message can lead to the BIG-IP system to falsely assume an egress MTU on the related flow to be larger than the interface egress MTU.

Conditions:
A valid PMTU message.

Impact:
BIG-IP sends larger-than-configured interface egress MTU messages.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The BIG-IP system now limits the flow egress MTU to the interface egress MTU.


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.


711249-2 : NAS-IP-Address added to RADIUS packet unexpectedly

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
RADIUS authentication request contains NAS-IP-Address attribute with value 127.0.0.1.

Conditions:
VIPRION (single or multiblade) with no cluster member IP addresses configured.

Impact:
Authentication does not work as it has invalid/unrecognized source NAS-IP-Address.

Workaround:
Configure cluster member IP address or define hostname and address via global-settings remote-host.


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.


710755-2 : Crash when cached route information becomes stale and the system accesses the information from it.

Solution Article: K30572159

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
The crash happens intermittently when the cached route information becomes stale and the system accesses the information from it.

Conditions:
Use stale cached route information.

Impact:
This condition can lead to a crash as the route information is no longer valid, and can lead to illegal memory access.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now fetches the latest egress route/interface information before accessing it.


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 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

Solution Article: K94105051


710246-3 : DNS-Express was not sending out NOTIFY messages on VE

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

Symptoms:
DNS Express is not sending out NOTIFY messages on BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE).

Conditions:
-- DNS Express configured to send out NOTIFY messages.
-- Running on BIG-IP VE configuration.

Impact:
DNS secondary servers serving stale data.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
DNS Express now sends out NOTIFY messages on VE.


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


710028-4 : LTM SQL monitors may stop monitoring if multiple monitors querying same database

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When using an SQL monitor to monitor the health of SQL database pool members, one of the health monitors may stop actively monitoring one or more pool members.

When this problem occurs, the following error messages may be logged in /var/log/DBDaemon-0.log:

[if debug = yes in monitor configuration]:
Using cached DB connection for connection string '<connection string>'

then multiple, periodic instances of the following message, referencing the same connection string:

Abandoning hung SQL query: '<query string>' for: '<connection string>'

or:

<connection string>(<thread-number>): Hung SQL query; abandoning

Conditions:
This may occur when all of the following conditions are met:
-- Using one of the following LTM monitors: mssql, mysql, oracle, postgresql.
-- Configuring multiple pool members for the same node (server).
-- Configuring multiple SQL monitors that query the same server and database.

And when one or both of the following conditions are met:
Either:
-- The SQL monitor is configured with a non-zero 'count' value.
Or:
-- An error occurs while querying a SQL database, such as [recorded in the DBDaemon log]:
java.io.EOFException: Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost.

Impact:
When this problem occurs, the affected pool members are reported down, even though the database is actually up and responding correctly to traffic.

Workaround:
When this problem occurs, successful monitoring can be temporarily restored by disabling then re-enabling monitoring of affected pool members.

To avoid one possible trigger for this issue (and thus reduce the likelihood of this issue occurring), configure the 'count' parameter in the SQL monitor configuration to a value of '0'.

Fix:
LTM SQL monitors continue monitoring when multiple monitors/ query the same server and database.


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 boot, error message displays: 'Dataplane INOPERABLE - only 1 HSBes found on this platform'

Solution Article: K51206433

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

Solution Article: K07550539


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.


708068-3 : Tcl commands like "HTTP::path -normalize" do not return normalized path.

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When using HTTP::path with the -normalized parameter:

"%2E%2E" is converted to ".." (expected)
"/foo/../bar" is converted to "/bar" (expected)
"/foo/%2E%2E/bar" is converted to "/foo/../bar" (unexpected)

Conditions:
The TCL command HTTP::path -normalize does not return normalized path as expected.

Impact:
Unexpected result.

Workaround:
There is no workaround.

Fix:
The TCL command HTTP::path -normalize should return normalized path.


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:
  <!--[if condition...]> ... <![endif]-->

- 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.


707990-3 : Unexpected TMUI output in SSL Certificate Instance page

Solution Article: K41704442


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.


707391-4 : BGP may keep announcing routes after disabling route health injection

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
As a result of a known issue BIG-IP with BGP configured may continue to announce routes even after disabling the virtual address or disabling route announcement on the virtual address.

Conditions:
BGP configured with multiple routes announced via Virtual-address route announcements.
Configuration changes made on the BGP configuration itself.
Virtual address or its route health announcement disabled.

Impact:
Prefixes continue to exist in the BGP table even after disabling the virtual address (visible via imish with the "show ip bgp" command); which will continue to announce the prefix to configured peers.

Workaround:
Workaround would be to restart the dynamic routing process.

Fix:
BGP may no longer keeps announcing routes after disabling route health injection


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


707003-2 : Unexpected syntax error in TMSH AVR

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The following tmsh command does not work: tmsh show analytics http report view-by virtual measures { transactions } drilldown

It fails with the following error message: 'Syntax Error: "drilldown" property requires at least one of (device device-list) to be specified before using.'

Conditions:
Whenever the affected tmsh command is run.

Impact:
The following tmsh command will not run: tmsh show analytics http report view-by virtual measures { transactions } drilldown

Workaround:
There is no workaround besides not running the affected command.

Fix:
The following command now works as expected: tmsh show analytics http report view-by virtual measures { transactions } drilldown


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.


706642-3 : wamd may leak memory during configuration changes and cluster events

Component: WebAccelerator

Symptoms:
wamd memory consumption increases over time.

Conditions:
-- AAM is provisioned so wamd is running.
-- User-initiated configuration change and/or other internal configuration or cluster events.

Impact:
wamd grows slowly over time, eventually crashing due to lack of memory. Temporary outage of services provided by wamd such as PDF linearization, invalidation, etc.

Workaround:
No workaround available.

Fix:
wamd n longer leaks memory during configuration changes and cluster events.


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 : Heavy use of APM Kerberos SSO can sometimes lead to memory corruption

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Kerberos SSO under high load can sometimes lead to system instability.

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

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

Workaround:
There is no workaround.

Fix:
Stability problems in DNS lookups in APM Kerberos SSO (S4U) have been corrected.


706354-1 : OPT-0045 optic unable to link

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The OPT-0045 optical transceiver when inserted into a 40G port would not function. The following error appeared in /var/log/ltm:
Invalid module for bundle configuration of interface <portNumber>.0

Conditions:
OPT-0045 in a 40G port

Impact:
Optic was not usable, interface would not come up.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
BIG-IP now supports the OPT-0045 optical transceiver.


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.


706104-2 : Dynamically advertised route may flap

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
ZebOS may repeatedly add and delete the routes from protocol daemons. This may cause the protocol daemons to delete and re-advertise the default route.

Conditions:
- Dynamic routing in use
- Kernel routes redistributed into a routing protocol
- Static route configure in TMOS
- Route advertisement enabled on the virtual-address that's the same as the static route

Impact:
Route flapping may cause instability in the network, including inability to reach the default network advertised by the BIG-IP.

Workaround:
Since the static route will be redistributed in the same way as the virtual-address, there is no need to enable route-advertisement on the VIP virtual-address. Disabling this will resolve the problem.

The problem will also be resolved by moving the route from tmsh into ZebOS.
 - In imish config mode, "ip route <route> <gateway>"
 - In tmsh, "delete net route <route>"

Fix:
Configuring a static route in TMOS and enabling route-advertisement on the same virtual-address no longer causes route flapping in ZebOS.


706102-3 : SMTP monitor does not handle all multi-line banner use cases

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
An SMTP monitor does not handle all multi-line banner use cases, such as when the banner is physically split across two packets. This issue is due to attempting to parse the banner value from the first packet without a portion of the banner value that may arrive in a second packet.

Conditions:
An SMTP monitor is configured; and uses a multi-line banner; and the SMTP monitor banner is split across two physical packets.

Impact:
The SMTP monitor sends an RST after the first packet, and marks the resource down.

Workaround:
Use an SMTP monitor with a single-line banner. Or, rather than using an SMTP monitor, instead use a TCP monitor with send/recv strings.

Fix:
An SMTP monitor handles all use cases that include a multi-line banner.


706086-1 : PAM RADIUS authentication subsystem hardening

Solution Article: K62750376


705794-1 : Under certain circumstances a stale HTTP/2 stream might cause a tmm crash

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
A HTTP/2 stream is getting overlooked when cleaning up a HTTP/2 flow.

Conditions:
The only known condition is that the closing_stream is not empty. Exact entrance conditions are not clear.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
HTTP/2 flows are now 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

Solution Article: K28003839


705037-3 : System may exhibit duplicate if_index, which in some cases lead to nsm daemon restart

Solution Article: K32332000

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
It is possible for the BIG-IP system to present duplicate if_index statistics of network objects, either viewed internally or polled via SNMP.

Conditions:
-- High availability (HA) configuration.
-- Tunnels configured.
-- If dynamic routing is configured, additional impact may be noted.

Impact:
-- Unreliable or confusing statistics via SNMP polling.

-- If dynamic routing is also configured, possible nsm daemon restart, which may lead to loss of dynamic routes.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
System no longer exhibits duplicate if_index statistics.


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.

Fix:
NAS-IP-Address Attribute is now set correctly when the the BIG-IP system is configured to use RADIUS authentication.


704733-2 : NAS-IP-Address is sent with the bytes in reverse order

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The NAS-IP-Address has the address of the local device sent with the bytes in reverse order (e.g., 78.56.30.172, where 172.30.56.78 is expected).

Conditions:
-- This affects IPv4 addresses only.
-- BIG-IP system is configured for RADIUS authentication.

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

Solution Article: K05018525


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 delays caused by TCP retransmission.


704490 : CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown)

Solution Article: K91229003


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

Solution Article: K91229003


704449-4 : Orphaned tmsh processes might eventually lead to an out-of-memory condition

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Occasionally, tmsh processes are orphaned when a user connects to the BIG-IP system via SSH, runs commands, and then quits the session or disconnects.

An orphaned tmsh process will have a parent pid (PPID) of 1. You can check for orphaned tmsh processes using the following shell command:

/bin/ps -o pid,ppid,comm -C tmsh
PID PPID COMMAND
8255 1 tmsh

If this issue occurs often enough, it might cause the BIG-IP system to run out of memory.

Conditions:
-- Using tmsh to connect to the BIG-IP system via SSH.
-- Running commands.
-- Quitting the session or disconnecting.

Impact:
Orphaned tmsh processes are created, which might eventually lead to an out-of-memory condition, if it occurs often enough.

Workaround:
There are several workarounds for this issue:

-- Change the default shell to bash for users that are going to use the script.
-- Use iControl.
-- Halt orphaned tmsh processes.

Fix:
tmsh processes are no longer orphaned when a user connects to the BIG-IP system via SSH, runs commands, and then quits the session or disconnects under these conditions.


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.


704247-3 : BIG-IP software may fail to install if multiple copies of the same image are present and have been deleted

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
BIG-IP .iso images may fail to install if multiple copies of the same image are present and have been deleted.

Conditions:
-- Have multiple copies of the same image .iso in the /shared directory on a BIG-IP system.
-- Delete one of them.

Impact:
Installation attempt of the remaining image(s) might fail.

Workaround:
Restart the lind process, so the installation can continue.

Fix:
The BIG-IP system now installs an image if multiple copies of the same image are present and have been deleted


704184-3 : APM MAC Client create files with owner only read write permissions

Solution Article: K52171282


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:
MacOS Machine certificate agent matches the configured hostname with the actual hostname upon a beginning partial string match.

Conditions:
MacOS APM client using Machine Certificate Check agent.

Impact:
Hostname match may be incorrect in these cases.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
The MacOS machine certificate check agent now matches on the whole host string rather than a sub string.


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.


703793-1 : tmm restarts when using ACCESS::perflow get' in certain events

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
tmm will restart when using 'ACCESS::perflow get' if the per-request policy has not been started yet.

Conditions:
Use 'ACCESS::perflow get' iRule in an event that runs before the per-request policy (e.g., CLIENT_ACCEPTED).

Impact:
tmm cores and traffic flow will be interrupted while it restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Initialization of certain variables was reworked so that the iRule command will not cause a core anymore if the per-flow value is unavailable due to the per-request policy not having been started yet.


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.


702873-3 : Windows Logon Integration feature may cause Windows logon screen freeze

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
Windows Logon Integration feature might cause a Microsoft Windows logon screen freeze, making Windows OS unresponsive to any client end user actions.

Conditions:
-- Client user putting laptop into sleep mode and waking it up multiple times.
-- Possibly, only Windows 10 is affected.

Impact:
Logon screen may hang, not allowing client user to type in credentials.

Workaround:
Reinstall EdgeClient without the Windows Logon Integration Feature.

Fix:
Previously, the Windows Logon Integration feature sometimes caused the Windows Logon screen to freeze. Now, this issue has been fixed.

As a side effect of the fix, the Logon screen now shows duplicates of the pre-logon VPN Entries, which might be confusing for client users. One duplicate comes from the Microsoft Credentials Provider. For information on how to disable the default Microsoft Credentials Provider, see the Microsoft Windows article: How to disable additional credential providers :: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/9c23976a-3e2b-4b71-9f19-83ee3df0848b/how-to-disable-additional-credential-providers.


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.


701856-2 : Memory leak in ASM-config Event Dispatcher upon continuous Policy Builder restart

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
In rare circumstance, when Policy Builder restarts continuously (in response to a different issue in which there are many shmem segments allocated and used by tmm), ASM-config Event Dispatcher memory usage grows uncontrollably.

Conditions:
In rare circumstances, Policy Builder restarts continuously (in response to a different issue in which there are many shmem segments allocated and used by tmm).

Impact:
ASM-config Event Dispatcher memory usage grows continuously until the device eventually fails over.

Workaround:
Restart asm_config_server on all devices using the following command:
 killall asm_config_server.pl

Fix:
ASM-config Event Dispatcher memory usage remains stable even upon multiple Policy Builder restarts.


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.


701785-3 : Linux kernel vulnerability: CVE-2017-18017

Solution Article: K18352029


701678-1 : Non-TCP and non-FastL4 virtual server with rate-limits may periodically stop sending packets to server when rate exceeded

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
TMM may periodically stop sending packets to the server for a few seconds when the configured virtual server rate-limited value is exceeded.

Conditions:
-- Virtual configured with rate-limit.
-- Uses a UDP profile (i.e., not using TCP or FastL4).
-- The idle-timeout is set to immediate.

Impact:
The virtual server might intermittently stop sending packets to the pool member server for a few seconds.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
UDP rate-limited virtual server now correctly sends packets to the server.


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

Solution Article: K16465222

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.


701538-1 : SSL handshake fails for OCSP, TLS false start, and SSL hardware acceleration configured

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
SSL handshake fails if the client initiates the handshake with TLS false start (specifically, client SSL sends the SSL record data to the server before the Server sends out the CSS is FINISHED notification).

Conditions:
1. Client initiates the SSL handshake with False Start.
2. The BIG-IP system has SSL hardware acceleration enabled (which is default for for non-virtual edition (VE) versions).

Impact:
The BIG-IP system sends the RST to tear down the connection in TLS false start.

Workaround:
There are no true workarounds. You must disable one of the conditions to workaround the issue:

-- Disable TLS False Start. (Note: this might not be feasible because it needs to be done on all clients.)
-- Disable SSL acceleration.
-- Disable AES-GCM ciphers in the client SSL profile. Without AES-GCM, clients do not try to use TLS false start and still be able to use (EC)DHE.

Fix:
The system no longer processes application data before verifying that the finished message arrives and handshake is complete.


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.


701253-3 : TMM core when using MPTCP

Solution Article: K16248201


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.


701039 : Requests do not appear in local logging due to rare file descriptor exhaustion

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
In an extremely rare circumstance, requests do not appear in local logging due to file descriptor exhaustion in asmlogd.

Conditions:
-- ASM configured.
-- ASM policy with an associated 'Log all requests' logging profile.
-- Requests sent to virtual server.
-- View Request Log.

Impact:
Requests do not appear in local logging.

Workaround:
Restart ASM, or pkill -f asmlogd.

Fix:
Requests appear in local logging correctly.


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

Solution Article: K07330445

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.


700827-2 : B2250 blades may lose efficiency when source ports form an arithmetic sequence.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Traffic imbalance between tmm threads. You might see the traffic imbalance by running the following command: tmsh show sys tmm-traffic

Conditions:
Source ports used to connect to B2250 blade form an arithmetic sequence.

For example, some servers always use randomly selected even source port numbers. This means the 'stride' of the ports selected is '2'. Because a sorted list of the ports yields a list like 2, 4, 6, 8… 32002, 32004. It is 'striding' over the odd ports; thus, a port stride of 2.

Impact:
Traffic imbalance between tmm threads may result in sub-optimal performance.

Workaround:
Randomize source ports when connecting via a BIG-IP system.

Fix:
This release introduces a new variable mhdag.pu.table.size.multiplier. Setting it to 2 or 3 mitigates the issue.


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.


700757-2 : vcmpd may crash when it is exiting

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
vcmpd may crash when it is exiting. The system logs an error message similar to the following in /var/log/ltm:

err vcmpd[14604]: 01510000:3: Uncaught exception: basic_string::_S_create

It's possible that vcmpd will then not start up, logging errors similar to the following in /var/log/ltm:

umount(/var/tmstat-vcmp/<guest name>) failed: (16, Device or resource busy

Conditions:
vCMP must be in use.

Impact:
vcmpd cores, but does so when already exiting. It is possible that vcmpd will then be unable to restart itself, and will need to be manually restarted.

Workaround:
If vcmpd cannot restart itself, you can manually restart it by running the following command:

tmsh restart sys service vcmpd

Fix:
Prevented vcmpd from crashing when exiting.


700726-1 : Search engine list was updated, and fixing case of multiple entries

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
Default search engine list does not identify current search engines, and blocks traffic unnecessarily. Part of the issue is that when adding custom search engines, there may be multiple search engines which match the User-Agent header, and this causes the match to fail.

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. Also, this version removes the check of multiple search engines, so that now when multiple Search Engines are matched, the Search Engine bypasses the challenges.


700696-2 : SSID does not cache fragmented Client Certificates correctly via iRule

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The last few bytes of a very large-sized Client Certificate (typically greater than 16,384 bytes) are not cached correctly if the certificate is received fragmented by the SSL Session ID (SSID) parser.

Conditions:
-- Client Authentication is enabled.
-- A very large Client Certificate is supplied (typically greater than 16,384 bytes).
-- SSL Session ID Persistence is enabled.
-- The iRule CLIENTSSL_CLIENTCERT is enabled.

Impact:
The client certificate is not stored on the BIG-IP device correctly. The last few bytes are missing.

Workaround:
Disable the CLIENTSSL_CLIENTCERT iRule when SSL Session ID (SSID) persistence is in use. Even though the Client Certificate does not get cached, that is preferable to caching an incorrect client certificate.

Fix:
This release supports caching of fragmented client certificates in the SSL Session ID (SSID) persistence feature to properly cache very large-size client certificates (typically exceeding 16,384 bytes).


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 cause repeated iRule DNS-lookup hang

Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)

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

Conditions:
-- iRule is in the middle of a call to RESOLV::lookup.
-- A change is made to VLAN cmp-hash configuration.

Impact:
The iRule call can hang repeatedly.

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

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:
BIG-IP LTM policies may cause an mcpd process memory leak.

As a result of this issue, you may encounter one or more of the following symptoms:

-- Latency when configuring the BIG-IP system.
-- Error messages logged in /var/log/ltm similar to the following example:
01140029:4: HA daemon_heartbeat mcpd fails action is restart.
-- The mcpd process may generate a core file in the /var/core directory.

Conditions:
This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met:

-- Your configuration includes one or more virtual servers with an associated BIG-IP LTM policy.
-- The BIG-IP LTM policy has at least one rule.
Note: Rules with actions or conditions can leak increased amounts of memory.

-- You delete and add BIG-IP LTM policies that are associated with the virtual server.
Note: This modification causes the memory leak to increase over time.

Impact:
The mcpd process might run slower as memory is consumed, and can fail when all system memory is exhausted. Devices in a high availability (HA) configuration may experience a failover event.

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 HTTP/2 stream can cause a tmm crash

Solution Article: K53464344

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Tmm might crash due to a stale/stalled HTTP/2 stream.

Conditions:
HTTP/2 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.


700386-1 : mcpd may dump core on startup

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
mcpd may generate a core file upon startup, with a message being logged that overdog restarted it because mcpd failed to send a heartbeat for five minutes.

Conditions:
This can happen only at startup.

Impact:
mcpd restarts, but resumes normal operation.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
mcpd no longer generates a core on startup.


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


699454-3 : Web UI does not follow current best coding practices

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
The web UI does not follow current best coding practices while processing URL DB updates.

Conditions:
ASM provisioned.

Impact:
UI does not respond as intended.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The web UI now follows current best coding practices while processing URL DB updates.


699452-3 : Web UI does not follow current best coding practices

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
The web UI does not follow current best coding practices while processing PEM configuration updates.

Conditions:
PEM provisioned.

Impact:
UI does not respond as intended.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The web UI now follows current best coding practices while processing PEM configuration updates.


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


698806-2 : Firewall NAT Source Translation UI does not show the enabled VLAN on egress interfaces

Component: Advanced Firewall Manager

Symptoms:
Egress Interfaces are not checked in the Source Translation page even if they are configured.

Conditions:
Create a source translation object with egress Interfaces set to 'Enabled on...', select Egress Interfaces from the list, and hit 'Finished'. Egress Interfaces will not be checked with the originally configured values.

Impact:
Egress Interfaces will not be checked even if they are configured.

Workaround:
Use tmsh to check if the object is actually configured with Egress Interfaces

Fix:
Egress Interfaces will be selected whenever a user tries to create a source Translation object with Egress Interfaces.


698757-1 : Standby system saves config and changes status after sync from peer

Solution Article: K58143082

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
After running config sync from an Active to a Standby device, the sync status is in SYNC for a short period time.
After a while, it automatically goes to Changes Pending status.

Conditions:
-- Manual sync device-group configuration.
-- Modify existing policy encoding to uppercase (via tmsh).
-- ASM configuration.

Impact:
The high availability (HA) configuration goes out of SYNC.

Workaround:
Use either of the following workarounds:
-- Push the sync back from the Standby device to the Active device, and then again from the Active to Standby.

-- Put the device group into auto-sync state and push the config from the Active to the Standby. After the Sync state resolves and the ASM configuration is finished loading, the device group can be put back to Manual sync.

Fix:
Change requested encoding to lowercase.


698619-1 : Disable port bridging on HSB ports for non-vCMP systems

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Internal packets flooded on internal switch interfaces by the HSB can be bridged back to the HSB on BIG-IP 5000/7000 and VIPRION B2100 blades configured to enable port bridging by the switch.

Conditions:
-- Packets being flooded from the HSB to VLAN members when adding/deleting VLANs.
-- Non-vCMP systems.
-- Virtual server configured for Direct Server Return (DSR or nPath Routing).

Impact:
This triggers a FDB flush and can result in packet flooding back to the HSB and potential network saturation.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Port bridging on HSB interfaces in the switch for non-vCMP systems is now disabled, so this issue no longer occurs.


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.


697616 : Report Device error: crypto codec qat-crypto0-0 queue is stuck on vCMP guests

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Failure in SSL traffic in vCMP configurations. The system logs the following device error:
-- crit tmm[17083]: 01010025:2: Device error: crypto codec qat-crypto0-0 queue is stuck.
-- warning sod[7759]: 01140029:4: HA crypto_failsafe_t qat-crypto0-0 fails action is failover.

Conditions:
-- vCMP guests when performing crypto operations.
-- i5600, i5800, i7600, i7800, i10600, i10800, i12600, i12800, i15600, i15800 platforms.

Impact:
The 'crypto queue stuck' message is reported, and failover will be triggered.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The 'crypto queue stuck' issue on vCMP platforms no longer occurs.


697424 : iControl-REST crashes on /example for firewall address-lists

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Making a call to /example on firewall address-list crashes iControl-REST.

Conditions:
Making a call to /example on firewall address-list.

Impact:
The icrd_child process crashes.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than not calling /example on firewall address-lists.


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.


697259-1 : Different versioned vCMP guests on the same chassis may crash.

Solution Article: K14023450

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The vCMP guest TMM crashes soon after startup.

Conditions:
-- You are using BIG-IP software versions 12.1.0-12.1.2.
-- vCMP guests are deployed in a chassis.
-- You configure a new guest running unaffected software alongside an existing or new guest running affected software. In other words, the issue occurs if you mix guests running affected and non-affected versions in a single vCMP host.

Impact:
vCMP guests running older versions of the software might crash. Blades continuously crash and restart. Traffic cannot pass. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Different versioned vCMP guests on the same chassis no longer crash.


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

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

Solution Article: K60985582

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

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.


695925-3 : tmm crash when showing connections for a CMP disabled virtual server

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
tmm crashes when performing 'tmsh show sys connection' and there is a connection from a secondary blade to a CMP-disabled virtual server.

Conditions:
This occurs when all of the following conditions are met:

-- There is a CMP-disabled virtual server.

-- There is a connection to that server from the control plane of a secondary blade (this can include monitoring traffic).

-- Connections are displayed that include the connection from the secondary blade ('tmsh show sys connection').

Impact:
tmm crashes and restarts impacting traffic.

Workaround:
Do not use 'cmp-enabled no' virtual servers when there will be connections from the BIG-IP control plane to the virtual server.

Avoid using tmsh show sys connection


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.


694697-3 : clusterd logs heartbeat check messages at log level info

Solution Article: K62065305

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The system reports clusterd logs heartbeat check messages at log level info, similar to the following.

-- info clusterd[6161]: 013a0007:6: Skipping heartbeat check on peer slot 3: Slot is DOWN.
-- info clusterd[5705]: 013a0007:6: Checking heartbeat of peer slot: 2 (Last heartbeat 0 seconds ago)

Conditions:
log.clusterd.level set to info.

Impact:
This is a cosmetic issue: clusterd heartbeat messages will be logged at info to the /var/log/ltm.

Workaround:
Set log.clusterd.level to notice.

Fix:
The log level of clusterd logs heartbeat check messages has changed. For 'Skipping heartbeat check' messages, the log level is now debug, and 'Checking heartbeat of peer slot' messages log level is verbose and now reports on which bp the heartbeat was received.


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.


694656-3 : Routing changes may cause TMM to restart

Solution Article: K05186205

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When routing changes are made while traffic is passing through the BIG-IP system, TMM might restart. This isn't a general issue, but can occur when other functionality is in use (such as Firewall NAT).

Conditions:
-- Routing changes occurring while BIG-IP is active and passing traffic.

-- Dynamic routing, due to its nature, is likely increase the potential for the issue to occur.

-- Usage of Firewall NAT functionality is one specific case known to contribute to the issue (there may be others).

Impact:
TMM restarts, resulting in a failover and/or traffic outage.

Workaround:
If dynamic routing is not in use, avoiding static route changes may avoid the issue.

If dynamic routing is in use, there is no workaround.

Fix:
TMM now properly manages routing information for active connections.


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.


693910-2 : Traffic Interruption for MAC Addresses Learned on Interfaces that Enter Blocked STP State (2000/4000/i2800/i4800 series)

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Some MAC addresses might experience delayed forwarding after the interface on which they are learned transition to a STP blocked state. This is because the FDB entries are not being flushed on these interfaces after they change to a block state. Traffic destined to these MAC addresses gets dropped until their associated entries in the FDB age out.

Conditions:
MAC addresses are learned on a STP forwarding interface that transitions to a blocked interface following a topology change.

Impact:
Traffic interruption for up to a few minutes for MAC addresses learned on the affected interface.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
FDB entries are now flushed by interface whenever an interface transitions to a STP block state.


693884-3 : ospfd core on secondary blade during network unstability

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
ospfd core on secondary blade while network is unstable.

Conditions:
-- Dynamic routing configured with OSPF on a chassis.
-- During a period of network instability.

Impact:
Dynamic routing process ospfd core on secondary blade.

Workaround:
None.


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 : CVE-2018-5531: vCMP vulnerability

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.


693582-3 : Monitor node log not rotated for icmp monitor types

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When Monitor Logging is enabled for an LTM node or pool member using certain monitor types, the monitor node log under /var/log/monitors/ is not rotated or compressed when log rotation occurs.

Conditions:
This occurs if Monitor Logging is enabled for an LTM node or pool member and the LTM node or pool member uses any of the following monitor types:
- icmp
- gateway-icmp

Impact:
Depending on the affected BIG-IP version in use, affects may include:
1. The active monitor node log is not rotated (not renamed from *.log to *.log.1).
2. The active monitor node log is rotated (renamed from *.log to *.log.1), but subsequent messages are logged to the rotated log file (*.log.1) instead of to the 'current' log file name (*.log).
3. The active monitor node log is not compressed (*.log.2.gz) when log rotation occurs.

Workaround:
To allow logging to the correct monitor node log file to occur, and for rotated monitor node log files to be compressed, disable Monitor Logging for the affected node or pool member(s).
If symptom #1 (from Impact section above) occurs, Monitor Logging can be re-enabled after log rotation has occurred.
To address symptom #2 or #3 (from Impact section above), Monitor Logging can be re-enabled immediately.
For more information on Monitor Logging, see:
K12531: Troubleshooting health monitors


693312-2 : vCMPd may crash when processing bridged network traffic

Solution Article: K03165684


693308-3 : SSL Session Persistence hangs upon receipt of fragmented Client Certificate Chain

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When a very large Client Certificate Chain, typically exceeding 16,384 bytes, is received by BIG-IP on a virtual service, and Session Persistence is enabled, the handshake hangs.

Conditions:
[1] SSL client authentication is enabled on the backend server
[2] No SSL profile is specified on the BIG-IP device for the virtual service, on both, client and server side
[3] An SSL connection is initiated from the front-end client, via the BIG-IP's virtual service, to the backend server.
[4] The client certificate chain is passed to the BIG-IP device as part of initiating the connection.

Impact:
The backend server will not be securely accessible via SSL because the connection hangs

Workaround:
Disable SSL Session Persistence.

Fix:
Whenever a fragmented message is received by a BIG-IP virtual service, subsequent messages contain a 5-byte header, each, which should be accounted for. Upon taking this into consideration, no more multiple-of-5 bytes are found missing while the message is being parsed by the Session Persistence parser, and the parser no longer hangs.


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/or 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


692189-3 : errdefsd fails to generate a core file on request.

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Should errdefsd crash or be manually cored for the purpose of gathering diagnostic information, no core file will be generated.

Conditions:
Forcing errdefsd to core for diagnostic purposes.

Impact:
Increased communication required with F5 Support when attempting to diagnose problems with errdefsd.

Workaround:
1. Add the following lines to the official errdefsd script, /etc/bigstart/scripts/errdefsd:
16a17,19
> # set resource limits, affinity, etc
> setproperties ${service}
>
2. Run the following command: bigstart restart errdefsd

Fix:
errdefsd now generates a core file when forced to core.


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 leaks memory.

Conditions:
Use of iCall or CLI scripts to save the configuration.

Impact:
Repeated invocation might cause the system to run out of memory eventually, causing tmm to restart and disrupting traffic.

Workaround:
There is no workaround other than not saving the configuration from iCall or CLI scripts.

Fix:
scriptd process on the device no longer leaks memory when iCall and CLI scripts are used to save the configuration.


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.


691589 : When using LDAP client auth, tamd may become stuck

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When a virtual server uses an LDAP auth profile for client authentication, the system can get into a state where all authentications time out. This condition persists until tamd restarts. Traffic analysis between the BIG-IP system and the LDAP server shows that the BIG-IP system makes a TCP handshake with the server, then immediately sends FIN. Tamd cores may be seen.

Conditions:
-- Virtual server using LDAP auth profile.
-- BIG-IP system makes a TCP handshake with the server, then immediately sends FIN.

Impact:
Authentication to the virtual server fails until tamd is restarted.

Workaround:
To recover, restart tamd by running the following command: bigstart restart tamd

Fix:
tamd no longer becomes stuck when using LDAP client auth.


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.


691224-1 : Fragmented SSL Client Hello message do not get properly reassembled when SSL Persistence is enabled

Solution Article: K59327001

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Node Server rejects received-and-incomplete ClientHello message and connection terminates.

Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
-- SSL Persistence is enabled.
-- There is no ClientSSL and ServerSSL profile.
-- The BIG-IP device receives fragments of a ClientHello message (typically, 11 bytes each) from an SSL front-end client.

Impact:
With Session Persistence enabled
-- The parser fails to reassemble fragmented ClientHello messages prior to passing it on to the backend server.
-- As a result, the backend server responds as if it has received an incomplete ClientHello message, rejects the handshake, and terminates the connection.

Workaround:
The issue disappears when SSL Persistence is disabled.


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 a very small random number (less than 50).

Note: K is a very small random number, which makes this issue difficult to describe.

Impact:
The export operation hangs.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
APM access policy export now uses 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.


690793-2 : TMM may crash and dump core due to improper connflow tracking

Solution Article: K25263287

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
In rare circumstances, it is possible for the embedded Packet Velocity Acceleration (ePVA) chip to try to process non-ePVA connflows. Due to this improper internal connflow tracking, TMM can crash and dump core.

Conditions:
This issue can occur on any system equipped with an ePVA and configured with virtual servers that make use of it to accelerate flows.

While no other conditions are required, it is known that modifying a FastL4 virtual server to Standard while the virtual server is processing traffic is very likely to cause the issue.

Impact:
TMM crashes and dumps core. A redundant unit will fail over. Traffic may be impacted while TMM restarts.

Workaround:
It is not recommended to switch virtual server profiles while running traffic. To change virtual server profiles, it is recommended to halt traffic to the system first.

However, this does not eliminate entirely the chances of running into this issue.

Fix:
The system now checks for HSB flow status update data and prevents false positive matches to virtual servers with non-FastL4 profiles.


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)

Solution Article: K95422068

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.


689437-2 : icrd_child cores due to infinite recursion caused by incorrect group name handling

Solution Article: K49554067

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Every time the virtual server stats are requested via REST, icrd_child consumes high CPU, grows rapidly toward the 4 GB max process size (32-bit process), and might eventually core.

Conditions:
Virtual server stats are requested via iControl REST with a special string that includes the dotted group names.

Impact:
icrd_child consumes high CPU, grows rapidly, and might eventually core.

Workaround:
Clear the virtual server stats via reset-stats and icrd_child no longer cores.

Fix:
icrd_child parsing logic update is needed to not enter recursion.


689211-2 : IPsec: IKEv1 forwards IPv4 packets incorrectly as IPv6 to daemon after version was { v1 v2 }

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
If you accidentally change an ike-peer version to { v1 v2 } for both IKEv1 and IKEv2 support then IKEv1 does not work when version is changed to { v1 }. Note: This is not a recommended action.

Packets from a remote peer after this appear to arrive via IPv6 and will not match the IPv4 config of the actual peer, so tunnels cannot be established.

Conditions:
Transiently changing an ike-peer version to { v1 v2 } before fixing it with 'version replace-all-with { v1 }' to target IKEv1 alone.

Impact:
IKEv1 tunnels cannot be established when the remote peer initiates. (If the local peer initiates, negotiation may succeed anyway, until the SA is expired or deleted.) After this, tmm forwards packets to racoon improperly.

Workaround:
After changing version to v1 alone, issue the following command to have the config work correctly:
 bigstart restart

Fix:
Added check for the IPv6 flag in the packet, in addition to testing for a v4-in-v6 address; this corrects the corner case of an address containing all zero when forwarded.


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.


689080 : Erroneous syncookie validation in HSB causes the BIG-IP system to choose the wrong MSS value

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
When a software encoding algorithm is being used by tmm to generate syn cookies in a SYN/ACK packet, there is a chance that HSB might mistakenly identify the ACK response to the SYN/ACK as valid syncookie response and stamp a SYNCOOKIE_VALID flag on the packet. In that case, software processes try to extract the MSS (maximum segment size) value encoded in the syncookie, which would be a wrong value. This may cause connection to fail in subsequent transactions, or cause performance degradation.

Conditions:
When software syncookie protection mode is activated and a software encoding algorithm is being used.

Impact:
Connections either fail, or the smaller, incorrect MSS value causes performance degradation.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
If a software syncookie encoding algorithm is being used, tmm now ignores the SYNCOOKIE_VALID flag stamped by HSB, so the correct MSS value is calculated.


689002-1 : Stackoverflow when JSON is deeply nested

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When the returned JSON payload from iControl REST is very large and deeply nested, the JSON destruction could trigger stack overflow due to deep recursion. This will crash icrd_child.

Conditions:
Deeply nested JSON returned from iControl-REST.

Impact:
icrd_child process coredumps.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The fix changes the destruction mechanism into an iterative solution, to completely avoid the stack overflow.


688942-3 : ICAP: Chunk parser performs poorly with very large chunk

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


688148-1 : IKEv1 racoon daemon SEGV during phase-two SA list iteration

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The wrong list linkage is iterated when phase-two SAs are deleted.

Conditions:
Deleting phase-two SAs, either manually or in response to notifications.

Impact:
IKEv1 tunnel outage until the racoon daemon restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Fixed list iteration to use the correct list linkage, so iterating one phase-one SAs list does not instead visit the global list of phase-two SAs.


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

Solution Article: K72040312

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

Solution Article: K45325728


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

Solution Article: K64552448


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.


686124-3 : IPsec: invalid SPI notifications in IKEv1 can cause v1 racoon faults from dangling phase2 SA refs

Solution Article: K83576240

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Deleting SAs on a remote peer can cause improper handling in the IKEv1 racoon daemon when invalid SPI notifications are processed.

Conditions:
Events causing deletion of phase one IKE SAs.

Impact:
IPsec IKEv1 tunnels will halt or restart. Connectivity between remote private networks will be interrupted.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
Phase one and phase two SA relationships are now more robust, tolerating operations that occur in any order, so tearing down old data structures will be done safely.


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.


685741 : DoS Overview is very slow to load data, to the point of timeout

Component: Application Visibility and Reporting

Symptoms:
When logs contains more than 1 million records, loading of attacks data is extremely slow and requires many SQL queries.

Conditions:
N/A

Impact:
DoS Overview page is unusable

Workaround:
N/A

Fix:
The fix revolved around combining all the required data into a couple of queries instead of sending distinct queries for every attack.


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 (BIG-IP-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-BIG-IP-11.6.1.2.0.338-HF2.iso', the system must have access to the base image; 'BIG-IP-11.6.1.0.0.317.iso'.

Here is another example: on multi-bladed VIPRION systems, where it is resolved by running 12.1.3.6.

1) Install and boot into 12.0.0 on the VIPRION system:
-- install /sys software image 12.0.0.iso create-volume volume HD1.test
-- reboot volume HD1.test
2) Install and boot into 12.1.2.0.402.249:
-- install /sys software hotfix Hotfix-BIG-IP-12.1.2.0.402.249-ENG.iso create-volume volume HD1.test2
-- reboot volume HD1.test2
3) Delete 12.0.0.iso and volume HD1.test:
-- delete sys software image 12.0.0.iso
-- delete sys software volume HD1.test
4) Copy over Hotfix-BIG-IP-13.1.0.7.0.17.1-ENG.iso without the 13.1.0.7 base image.
5) Check the /var/log/ltm logs for the following message:
-- lind[6288]: 013c0006:5: Image (BIG-IP-12.0.0.0.0.606.iso) has a software image entry in MCP database but does not exist on the filesystem.

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 operation 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.


685230-1 : memory leak on a specific server scenario

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
The bd process memory increases.

Conditions:
A specific server scenario of handling the traffic.

Impact:
Swap may be used. The kernel OOM killer may be invoked. Possible traffic disturbance.

Workaround:
There is no workaround at this time.

Fix:
A memory leaked related to a specific server scenario was fixed.


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.

Solution Article: K05430133

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

Solution Article: K26451305

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

Solution Article: K54140729

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

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

Solution Article: K00152663

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.


683114-1 : Need support for 4th element version in Update Check

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
Previously, there was no 4th element version Update Check functionality.

Conditions:
Using Update Check.

Impact:
No 4th element version support provided.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
There is now 4th element version support in Update Check.


683113-6 : [KERBEROS SSO][KRB5] The performance of memory type Kerberos ticket cache in krb5 library drops gradually with the number of users

Solution Article: K22904904

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

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.

Solution Article: K48342409

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.


680264 : HTTP2 headers frame decoding may fail when the frame delivered in multiple xfrags

Solution Article: K18653445

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Intermittently, HTTP2 experiences protocol resets.

Conditions:
-- xfrag is 2 bytes in length.
-- The header length is greater than 128.
-- xfrag starts.

For example, the following returns the incorrect header length:
 (0xFF BYTE1) next byte, http2_arbint_read.

Impact:
Unexpected loss of HTTP2 frames due to protocol resets.

Workaround:
No effective workaround.

Fix:
HTTP2 now parses the request, regardless of its xfrags distribution.


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

Solution Article: K44117473

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

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

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.


678380-3 : Deleting an IKEv1 peer in current use could SEGV on race conditions.

Solution Article: K26023811

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When either deleting a peer in IKEv1 or updating it, this problem causes the v1 racoon daemon to crash with a SIGSEGV under some race conditions, intermittently.

Conditions:
This requires a peer using IKEv1, which gets updated or deleted while the IKEv1 racoon daemon is performing operations related to this peer.

Impact:
If the problem occurs, the IKEv1 racoon daemon restarts and interrupts IPsec traffic.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The system now checks whether the old peer definition is valid when navigating from phase-one SAs to the IKEv1 peer definition.


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.


678254-2 : Error logged when restarting Tomcat

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
An error is logged after restarting Tomcat and using the web UI.

Conditions:
Using the web UI to restart tomcat.

Impact:
An error is logged after restarting Tomcat and using the web UI.

Workaround:
There is no workaround.

Fix:
When restarting Tomcat and using the web UI, and error will be logged only if the debug flag is enabled.


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

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. The BIG-IP system 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:
The BIG-IP system does not accept the value, and terminates the connection using GOAWAY frame with PROTOCOL_ERROR as a reason.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The BIG-IP system no longer generates an error due to this issue, and allows value for SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE to exceed 32,768.


677088-4 : BIG-IP tmsh vulnerability CVE-2018-15321

Solution Article: K01067037


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

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:
This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met:

1) The BIG-IP system receives a new connection request and attempts to select a pool member.
2) All pool members are unresponsive. This may be due to one of the following reasons:
  a) The pool members have reached their configured connection limit.
  b) There is no route to the pool members.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
TMM correctly checks for NULL condition to prevent the crash.


676705-2 : do not run agetty on VE without serial port

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
The init process spawns the /sbin/agetty over and over, filling the log file daemon.log

Conditions:
VE without serial port

Impact:
high disk usage.

Workaround:
Change "respawn" to "off" in /etc/init/serial-ttySX.conf

Fix:
Serial ports are now correctly detected.


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.


676471-1 : Insufficient space for core files on i11x00-series platforms

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
The default location for core files is '/var/core'. On i11000 Series platforms, there is insufficient space in this directory for core files. When a process generates a core file, or when a core file is created manually, the system truncates the core file's content.

Conditions:
-- A process encounters a condition that leads to a core file being generated, or a core file is produced manually.

-- Using one of the following platforms:
  + i11400-DS
  + i11600 / i11800
  + i11600-DS / i11800-DS

Impact:
Core file content is truncated. Further analysis of the problem that created the core cannot proceed.

Workaround:
Change the location where the kernel places core files. For example, you might use '/appdata' as the destination.

Change /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern to define the pathname used to generate the core file.

For more information about core files, refer to the core man page, available by running the following command in tmsh: man core

Fix:
More space has been made available in '/var/core'. Core files are no longer truncated.


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.


676223-2 : Internal parameter in order not to sign allowed cookies

Component: Application Security Manager

Symptoms:
ASM TS cookies may get big (up to 4k).

Conditions:
policy building is turned on (manual or automatic). There are allowed cookies.

Impact:
This increases web site throughput.

Workaround:
N/A

Fix:
Parameter to not to sign allowed cookies added.


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

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:
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 of '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:
There is no workaround other than not creating more than 4 'ssl-mode dedicated' vCMP guests when provisioning vCMP guests on the i5800 platform.

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:
Kerberos SSO (S4U) 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

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:
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.


674591-2 : Packets with payload smaller than MSS are being marked to be TSOed

Solution Article: K37975308

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
Packets with length less than the specified MSS are sent as TSO packets, and the Broadcom NIC drops those to degrade performance.

Conditions:
When TM.TcpSegmentationOffload is enabled, Packets with length less than MSS are sent as TSO packets.

Impact:
TCP Packets are dropped.

Workaround:
Disable TSO option by setting the following SYS DB variable to disable: TM.TcpSegmentationOffload.

Fix:
Packets less than MSS are not sent as TSO packets, so there is no performance degradation.


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.


674486-5 : Expat Vulnerability: CVE-2017-9233

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
An infinite loop vulnerability due to malformed XML in external entity was found in entityValueInitProcessor function affecting versions of Expat 2.2.0 and earlier.

Conditions:
Version of expat in use on BIG-IP is v2.2.0 or earlier.

Impact:
BIG-IP is vulnerable to CVE-2017-9233 via the administrative interface.

Fix:
Expat updated to v2.2.0 or later


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


674145-3 : chmand error log message missing data

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
When there is an error with communication between chmand and lopd, a message is logged giving information about the problem. That message is missing data useful to F5 for determining the cause of the communications error.

Messages similar to:
Jul 11 11:10:19 localhost warning chmand[7815]: 012a0004:4: getLopReg: lop response data does not match request, u16DataLen=0xb expected=0xb, u8Length=0x8 expected=0x, u8Page=0x28 expected=0x$, u8Register=0x50 expected=0xP

The expected data values are missing in this message, making it more difficult for F5 engineers to determine what caused the original communications problem.

Conditions:
This issue only occurs when there is some problem with the communication channel between chmand and lopd.

Impact:
Added difficulty for F5 to determine what problem caused the error message to be logged.

Fix:
The expected data values are properly printed in the log message.


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.
-- A One-Connect profile is configured on the virtual server.

Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
tmm no longer crashes when after deleting pool member while traffic is passing.


673974-1 : agetty auto detects parity on console port incorrectly

Solution Article: K63225596

Component: TMOS

Symptoms:
With a BIG-IP system configured for a console baud rate that is different from the baud rate of the serial terminal that is plugged in to the console port, he system returns garbled characters on the screen. Changing the terminal setting to match the console baud rate has no effect after that: the BIG-IP system continues to send garbage.

Conditions:
BIG-IP system with a console at certain baud rate.
-- Plug in a serial terminal with a different baud rate.
-- Press enter several times.

Impact:
The parity detection code selects the wrong setting, leaving the console port unusable until reboot of the BIG-IP system, or after killing and restarting agetty.

Workaround:
To recover from this condition, log on to the BIG-IP system via ssh, force parity off, and kill the agetty process (assuming the console is not logged in, and is therefore running agetty).

      via ssh:

      # stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -parenb ; killall agetty

   However, this is not an ideal workaround, as a frequent reason to use the serial console is lack of network access to the device.

   In that situation, you can log on by setting the terminal to Mark parity (8 data bits, Mark parity, 1 stop bit).

Note: There is no way to mitigate the issue from the console connection itself, as agetty doesn't run while the console is logged in.

You can also reboot the BIG-IP system, reset the terminal speed on the laptop to match the console speed set on the BIG-IP system, and reconnect the laptop.

Fix:
This issue has been corrected.


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>"

Fix:
Error handling for access policy import failures has been improved.


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

Solution Article: K41458656

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.


672312-2 : IP ToS may not be forwarded to serverside with syncookie activated

Component: Local Traffic Manager

Symptoms:
IP ToS field may not be preserved on forwarding in a FastL4 virtual server when syncookie is activated.

Conditions:
-- FastL4 ip-forwarding virtual server.
-- ToS in passthrough mode.
-- Syncookie is activated in hardware mode.
-- On a hardware platform with ePVA.

Impact:
IP ToS header is not forwarded to the serverside.

Workaround:
None.

Fix:
The BIG-IP system now forwards IP ToS in syncookie mode.


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.


672221 : TMM cores if the certificate configured to validate message signature does not exist.

Component: Access Policy Manager

Symptoms:
TMM cores if the SAML message signature verification certificate cannot be found in the configuration.

Conditions:
-- SAML is configured with an invalid certificate in the message signature validation setting.
-- The control-plane is unable to detect such misconfiguration.

Note: This is an unlikely occurrence if the usual control-plane is used to configure the SSO/SAML object. In this particular case, the certificate-key was passed in as the certificate which triggered a certificate-not-found error.

Impact:
The issue can lead to momentary service interruption. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Workaround:
Make sure the certificate configured for use with the SAML message signature verification is correctly configured and the configuration loads successfully.


672124-3 : Exces