Applies To:
Show VersionsBIG-IP AAM
- 13.0.0
BIG-IP APM
- 13.0.0
BIG-IP Link Controller
- 13.0.0
BIG-IP Analytics
- 13.0.0
BIG-IP LTM
- 13.0.0
BIG-IP AFM
- 13.0.0
BIG-IP PEM
- 13.0.0
BIG-IP DNS
- 13.0.0
BIG-IP ASM
- 13.0.0
BIG-IP Release Information
Version: BIGIP-13.0.0
Build: 1645.0
Known Issues in BIG-IP v13.0.x
Vulnerability Fixes
ID Number | CVE | Solution Article(s) | Description |
600662 | CVE-2016-5745 | K64743453 | NAT64 vulnerability CVE-2016-5745 |
599168 | CVE-2016-5700 | K35520031 | BIG-IP virtual server with HTTP Explicit Proxy and/or SOCKS vulnerability CVE-2016-5700 |
598983 | CVE-2016-5700 | K35520031 | BIG-IP virtual server with HTTP Explicit Proxy and/or SOCKS vulnerability CVE-2016-5700 |
596488 | CVE-2016-5118 | K82747025 | GraphicsMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-5118. |
591806 | CVE-2016-3714 | K03151140 | ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3714 |
574060 | CVE-2015-7547 | K47098834 | glibc: getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow |
569467-8 | CVE-2016-2084 | K11772107 | BIG-IP and BIG-IQ cloud image vulnerability CVE-2016-2084. |
624570 | CVE-2016-8864 | K35322517 | BIND vulnerability CVE-2016-8864 |
624459 | CVE-2016-5195 | K10558632 | Linux privilege-escalation vulnerability (Dirty COW) CVE-2016-5195 |
618306 | CVE-2016-9247 | K33500120 | TMM vulnerability CVE-2016-9247 |
616864 | CVE-2016-2776 | K18829561 | BIND vulnerability CVE-2016-2776 |
613282 | CVE-2016-2086, CVE-2016-2216, CVE-2016-1669 | K15311661 | NodeJS vulnerability CVE-2016-2086 |
612128-6 | CVE-2016-6515 | K31510510 | OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2016-6515 |
608601 | CVE-2014-8127 CVE-2014-8129 CVE-2014-8130 CVE-2014-9330 CVE-2014-9655 CVE-2015-1547 CVE-2015-7554 CVE-2015-8665 CVE-2015-8668 CVE-2015-8683 CVE-2015-8781 CVE-2015-8782 CVE-2015-8783 CVE-2015-8784 CVE-2016-3632 CVE-2016-3945 CVE-2016-3990 CVE-2016-3991 | K35155453 | Multiple LibTIFF vulnerabilities |
598294 | CVE-2016-7472 | K17119920 | BIG-IP ASM Proactive Bot Defense vulnerability CVE-2016-7472 |
596340 | CVE-2016-9244 | K05121675 | F5 TLS vulnerability CVE-2016-9244 |
591328 | CVE-2016-2108,CVE-2016-2107,CVE-2016-2105,CVE-2016-2106,CVE-2016-2109 | K36488941 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2106 |
591327 | CVE-2016-2108,CVE-2016-2107,CVE-2016-2105,CVE-2016-2106,CVE-2016-2109 | K36488941 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2106 |
591325 | 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 | CVE-2016-2108,CVE-2016-2107,CVE-2016-2105,CVE-2016-2106,CVE-2016-2109 | K23230229 | OpenSSL vulnerabilities |
580596-2 | 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 |
579955 | CVE-2016-7475 | K01587042 | BIG-IP SPDY and HTTP/2 profile vulnerability CVE-2016-7475 |
573778 | CVE-2016-1714 | K75248350 | QEMU vulnerability CVE-2016-1714 |
569455 | CVE-2016-0728 | K01948202 | Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-0728 |
563670 | CVE-2015-3194, CVE-2015-3195, CVE-2015-3196 | K86772626 | OpenSSL vulnerabilities |
630856 | CVE-2016-6816 | K50116122 | Apache Tomcat vulnerability CVE-2016-6816 |
625372 | CVE-2016-2179 | K23512141 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2179 |
622495 | CVE-2016-5829 | K28056114 | Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-5829 |
622126 | CVE-2016-7124 CVE-2016-7125 CVE-2016-7126 CVE-2016-7127 | K54308010 | PHP vulnerability CVE-2016-7124 |
621337 | CVE-2016-7469 | K97285349 | XSS vulnerability in the BIG-IP and Enterprise Manager Configuration utilities CVE-2016-7469 |
618549 | CVE-2016-9249 | K71282001 | Fast Open can cause TMM crash CVE-2016-9249 |
618263 | CVE-2016-2182 | K01276005 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2182 |
618261 | CVE-2016-2182 | K01276005 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2182 |
613225 | CVE-2016-2180, CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-6302 | K90492697 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6306 |
607314 | CVE-2016-3500, CVE-2016-3508 | K25075696 | Oracle Java vulnerability CVE-2016-3500, CVE-2016-3508 |
605039 | CVE-2016-2775 | K92991044 | lwresd and bind vulnerability CVE-2016-2775 |
601059 | 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 |
600232-1 | CVE-2016-2177 | K23873366 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2177 |
599858 | 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 |
597023 | CVE-2016-4954 | K82644737 | NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-4954 |
595242 | CVE-2016-3705 | K54225343 | libxml2 vulnerabilities CVE-2016-3705 |
595231 | CVE-2016-3627 | K54225343 | libxml2 vulnerabilities CVE-2016-3627 and CVE-2016-3705 |
594496 | CVE-2016-4539 | K35240323 | PHP Vulnerability CVE-2016-4539 |
593447 | CVE-2016-5024 | K92859602 | BIG-IP TMM iRules vulnerability CVE-2016-5024 |
592001 | CVE-2016-4071 CVE-2016-4073 | K64412100 | CVE-2016-4073 PHP vulnerabilities |
591918 | CVE-2016-3718 | K61974123 | ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3718 |
591908 | CVE-2016-3717 | K29154575 | ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3717 |
591894 | CVE-2016-3715 | K10550253 | ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3715 |
591881 | CVE-2016-3716 | K25102203 | ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3716 |
591455 | CVE-2016-1550 CVE-2016-1548 CVE-2016-2516 CVE-2016-2518 | K24613253 | NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-2516 |
591447 | CVE-2016-4070 | K42065024 | PHP vulnerability CVE-2016-4070 |
587077 | 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 |
585502 | CVE-2016-1978 CVE-2016-1979 | K37540306 | nss, nspr, and nss-util vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-1978 and CVE-2016-1979 |
580747 | CVE-2016-0739 | K57255643 | libssh vulnerability CVE-2016-0739 |
579220 | CVE-2016-1950 | K91100352 | Mozilla NSS vulnerability CVE-2016-1950 |
572599 | CVE-2015-7504 CVE-2015-7512 | K63519101 | QEMU vulnerabilities CVE-2015-7504 CVE-2015-7512 |
572597 | CVE-2015-5279 | K63519101 | CVE-2015-5279: A heap buffer overflow in QEMU's NE2000 NIC |
572596 | CVE-2015-5165 | K63519101 | CVE-2015-5165; leak flaw in QEMU's RTL8139 emulation. |
570697 | CVE-2015-8138 | K71245322 | NTP vulnerability CVE-2015-8138 |
564111 | CVE-2015-8395 CVE-2015-8384 CVE-2015-8392 CVE-2015-8394 CVE-2015-8391 CVE-2015-8390 CVE-2015-8389 CVE-2015-8388 CVE-2015-8387 CVE-2015-8386 CVE-2015-8385 CVE-2015-8383 CVE-2015-8382 CVE-2015-8381 CVE-2015-8380 CVE-2015-2328 CVE-2015-2327 CVE-2015-8393 | K05428062 | Multiple PCRE vulnerabilities |
556740 | CVE-2015-7613 | K90230486 | Kernel vulnerability CVE-2015-7613 |
548295 | CVE-2015-5073 | K17331 | PCRE library vulnerability CVE-2015-5073 |
406550 | CVE-2012-5784 | K14371 | CVE-2012-5784: Apache Axis vulnerability |
622662 | CVE-2016-6306 | K90492697 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6306 |
600198-1 | CVE-2016-2178 CVE-2016-6306 CVE-2016-6302 | K53084033 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2178 |
599285-1 | CVE-2016-5094 CVE-2016-5095 CVE-2016-5096 | K51390683 | PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2016-5094 and CVE-2016-5095 |
597010 | CVE-2016-4955 | K03331206 | NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-4955 |
596997 | CVE-2016-4956 | K64505405 | NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-4956 |
591767-1 | CVE-2016-1547 | K11251130 | NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-1547 |
591438 | CVE-2015-8865 | K54924436 | PHP vulnerability CVE-2015-8865 |
580340 | CVE-2016-2842 | K52349521 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2842 |
580313 | CVE-2016-0799 | K22334603 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-0799 |
579975 | CVE-2016-0702 | K79215841 | OpenSSL vulnerability |
579829 | CVE-2016-0702 | K79215841 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-0702 |
579237 | CVE-2016-0705 | K93122894 | OpenSSL Vulnerability CVE-2016-0705 |
579098 | CVE-2016-0797 | K40524634 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-0797 |
579085 | CVE-2016-0797 | K40524634 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-0797 |
578570 | CVE-2016-0705 | K93122894 | OpenSSL Vulnerability CVE-2016-0705 |
576883 | CVE-2016-0706 | K30971148 | BIG-IP vulnerable to CVE-2016-0706 |
576881 | CVE-2015-5345 | K30971148 | BIG-IP vulnerable to CVE-2015-5345 |
576878 | CVE-2015-5174 | K30971148 | BIG-IP vulnerable to CVE-2015-5174 |
575629-1 | CVE-2015-8139 | K00329831 | NTP vulnerability: CVE-2015-8139 |
573451 | CVE-2015-7974 | K13304944 | NTP vulnerability CVE-2015-7974 |
573343 | CVE-2015-7977 CVE-2015-7978 CVE-2015-7979 CVE-2015-8158 | K01324833 | NTP vulnerability CVE-2015-8158 |
569355 | 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 |
568151 | CVE-2015-5219 | K60352002 | SNTP vulnerability CVE-2015-5219 |
568054 | CVE-2015-5195 | K02360853 | NTP vulnerabilities CVE-2015-5194 and CVE-2015-5195 |
568052 | CVE-2015-5194 | K02360853 | NTP vulnerabilities CVE-2015-5194 and CVE-2015-5195 |
567379 | CVE-2013-4397 | K16015326 | libtar vulnerability CVE-2013-4397 |
565895 | CVE-2015-3217 | K17235 | Multiple PCRE Vulnerabilities |
545718 | CVE-2015-5352 | K17461 | CVE-2015-5352 : OpenSSH Vulnerability |
531877 | CVE-2015-5146 | K17114 | NTP vulnerability CVE-2015-5146 |
505251 | CVE-2014-8116 CVE-2014-8117 | K16347 | Linux file utility vulnerabilities CVE-2014-8116 and CVE-2014-8117 |
630877 | CVE-2016-8735 | K49820145 | Apache Tomcat vulnerability CVE-2016-8735 |
630870 | CVE-2016-6817 | K49160100 | Apache Tomcat vulnerability CVE-2016-6817 |
625505 | CVE-2016-2181 | K59298921 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2181 |
625392 | CVE-2016-2179 | K23512141 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2179 |
621937 | CVE-2016-6304 | K54211024 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6304 |
621935 | CVE-2016-6304 | K54211024 | OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6304 |
570667 | CVE-2016-0701 CVE-2015-3197 | K64009378 | OpenSSL vulnerabilities |
538672 | CVE-2011-4969 | K16967 | BIG-IP utilizes version of jQuery vulnerable to CVE-2011-4969 |
Functional Change Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
596128 | 1-Blocking | Allow configuration of secondary addresses for multipoint VXLAN tunnels |
624831 | 2-Critical | BWC: tmm crash can occur if dynamic BWC policy is used at max-user-rate over 2gbps |
563488 | 2-Critical | Support Extended Master Secret Extension (RFC7627) for ProxySSL |
631727 | 3-Major | Analytics data is displayed per collection interval instead of per second. |
619667 | 3-Major | Allow Local DNS Servers is not honored on Mac OS X |
616106 | 3-Major | Client-type in access policy does not detect Edge Client after failing authentication. |
615377 | 3-Major | Unexpected rate limiting of unreachable and ICMP messages for some addresses. |
609674 | 3-Major | machine certificate check creates issuer string with DC with reverse order |
606072 | 3-Major | User deletion doesn't delete tokens issued for that user at max 15 seconds |
602568 | 3-Major | Updated Default Ciphersuite Group |
600385 | 3-Major | BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS monitors are allowed to be configured with interval value larger than timeout |
599536 | 3-Major | IPsec peer with wildcard selector brings up wrong phase2 SAs |
598204 | 3-Major | In syncookie mode, TCP profile MSS is not honored when the BIG-IP system sends back the SYN-ACK. |
593409 | 3-Major | [Portal Access] URL normalization is required for some Javascript interfaces |
591819 | 3-Major | Upgrade script for SSO log-level★ |
590122 | 3-Major | Standard TLS version rollback detection for TLSv1 or earlier might need to be relaxed to interoperate with clients that violate TLS specification. |
586657 | 3-Major | PPTP log entries now includes route-domain information |
576521 | 3-Major | If you have MSSQL proxy feature configured, you will lose it upon upgrading to v12.1.0 or later.★ |
572309 | 3-Major | URL is not enforced correctly in some cases |
568768 | 3-Major | CSR attribute email and certificate Subject's DN email are not distinguished |
568229 | 3-Major | [LTM][DNS] save-on-auto-sync with partitions fails for LTM DNS partition objects |
561348 | 3-Major | krb5.conf file is not synchronized between blades and not backed up |
541549 | 3-Major | AWS AMIs for BIG-IP VE will now have volumes set to be deleted upon instance termination. |
533755 | 3-Major | Required syntax for iRule command DIAMETER::avp create has changed |
532685 | 3-Major | PAC file download errors disconnect the tunnel |
530109 | 3-Major | OCSP Agent does not honor the AIA setting in the client cert even though 'Ignore AIA' option is disabled. |
515180 | 3-Major | Matched ASM signatures cannot be accessed easily from iRules. |
499404 | 3-Major | FastL4 does not honor the MSS override value in the FastL4 profile with syncookies |
497100 | 3-Major | APM Migrates to Google reCAPTCHA API Version 2.0 |
441079 | 3-Major | BIG-IP 2000/4000: Source port on NAT connections are modified when they should be preserved |
407411 | 3-Major | New APIs for iControl SOAP Trust management |
390196 | 3-Major | Support Route Domains for VDI deployments (Citrix, VMware View, RDP) |
246726 | 3-Major | System continues to process virtual server traffic after disabling virtual address |
609084 | 4-Minor | Max number of chunks not configurable above 1000 chunks |
605690 | 4-Minor | tmsh "ip-whitelist" field DOS application is deprecated |
599839 | 4-Minor | Add new keyords to SIP::persist command to specify how Persistence table is updated |
598200 | 4-Minor | Migrating iControl SOAP interface and logic for OCSP related configuration |
598199 | 4-Minor | Migrating tmsh commands and logic for OCSP related configuration |
591733 | 4-Minor | Save on Auto-Sync is missing from the configuration utility. |
526642-3 | 4-Minor | iRule with HTML commands inside can be attached to Virtual server without HTML profile |
511049 | 4-Minor | tmsh run sys crypto check-cert to support arbitrary certificate file name. |
571527 | 5-Cosmetic | "list sys crypto csr" output is not consistent |
TMOS Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
638935 | 1-Blocking | Monitor with send/receive string containing double-quote may cause upgrade to fail.★ |
627433 | 1-Blocking | HSB transmitter failure on i2x00 and i4x00 platforms |
625784-1 | 1-Blocking | TMM crash on BigIP i4x00 and i2x00 with large ASM configuration. |
539093 | 1-Blocking | VE shows INOPERATIVE status until at least one VLAN is configured and attached to an interface. |
340702 | 1-Blocking | Controlplane Auth - Fallback to local accounts if remote auth fails |
636918 | 2-Critical | Fix for crash when multiple tunnels use the same traffic selector |
631582-6 | 2-Critical | Administrative interface enhancement |
627898 | 2-Critical | TMM leaks memory in the ECM subsystem |
625824 | 2-Critical | iControl calls related to key and certificate management (Management::KeyCertificate) might leak memory |
625456 | 2-Critical | Pending sector utility may write repaired sector incorrectly |
624826 | 2-Critical | mgmt bridge takes HWADDR of guest vm's tap interface |
624263 | 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 |
621422-1 | 2-Critical | i2000 and i4000 series appliances do not warn when an incorrect optic is in a port |
620056 | 2-Critical | Assert on deletion of paired in-and-out IPsec traffic selectors |
618779 | 2-Critical | Route updates during IPsec tunnel setup can cause tmm to restart |
618421-1 | 2-Critical | Some mass storage is left un-used |
618382 | 2-Critical | qkview may cause tmm to restart or may take 30 or more minutes to run |
616059 | 2-Critical | Modifying license.maxcores Not Allowed Error |
614865-4 | 2-Critical | Overwrite flag in iControl functions key/certificate_import_from_pem functions is ignored and might result in errors. |
614586 | 2-Critical | tmm assert "invalid racoon2 block header prefix" |
614296 | 2-Critical | Dynamic routing process ripd may core |
613536-1 | 2-Critical | tmm core while running the iRule STATS:: command |
610354 | 2-Critical | TMM crash on invalid memory access to loopback interface stats object |
610295 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash due to internal backplane inconsistency after reprovisioning |
606509 | 2-Critical | Incorrect process priority in vCMP guest results in low priority of the guest control-plane, which might cause high availability failover★ |
605983 | 2-Critical | tmrouted may crash when being restarted in debug mode |
602642 | 2-Critical | tmm assert "cipher_init_dual failed" |
601527 | 2-Critical | mcpd memory leak and core |
600894 | 2-Critical | In certain situations, the MCPD process can leak memory |
600859-1 | 2-Critical | Module not licensed after upgrade from 11.6.0 to 12.1.0 HF1 EHF.★ |
599033 | 2-Critical | Traffic directed to incorrect instance after network partition is resolved |
598697-2 | 2-Critical | vCMP guests may fail after vCMP host system is upgraded to BIG-IP v12.1.x when 'qemu' user isn't created★ |
597900 | 2-Critical | iControl REST may core when logging in immediately after a reboot |
595712 | 2-Critical | Not able to add remote user locally |
595394 | 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.★ |
591495 | 2-Critical | VCMP guests sflow agent can crash due to duplicate vlan interface indices |
591104 | 2-Critical | ospfd cores due to an incorrect debug statement. |
587698 | 2-Critical | bgpd crashes when ip extcommunity-list standard with route target(rt) and Site-of-origin (soo) parameters are configured |
585745 | 2-Critical | sod core during upgrade from 10.x to 12.x. |
584583 | 2-Critical | Timeout error when attempting to retrieve large dataset. |
584242 | 2-Critical | tmm assert "wrong selector tag" |
583936 | 2-Critical | Removing ECMP route from BGP does not clear route from NSM |
583516 | 2-Critical | tmm ASSERT's "valid node" on Active, after timer fire.. |
580753 | 2-Critical | eventd might core on transition to secondary. |
574116 | 2-Critical | MCP may crash when syncing configuration between device groups |
574055-1 | 2-Critical | TMM crash after changing raccoon log level |
567457-1 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash when changing the IKE peer config. |
562122-4 | 2-Critical | Adding a trunk might disable vCMP guest |
560109 | 2-Critical | Client capabilities failure |
557680 | 2-Critical | Fast successive MTU changes to IPsec tunnel interface crashes TMM |
554713-1 | 2-Critical | Deployment failed: Failed submitting iControl REST transaction |
471860-8 | 2-Critical | Disabling interface keeps DISABLED state even after enabling |
470238 | 2-Critical | tmm restart issue when number of cores in license differs from number of system CPUs. |
460833 | 2-Critical | MCPD sync errors and restart after multiple modifications to file object in chassis |
448477 | 2-Critical | devmgmtd may crash during provisioning |
412817 | 2-Critical | BIG-IP system unreachable for IPv6 traffic via PCI pass-through interfaces as current ixgbevf drivers do not support multicast receive. |
355806 | 2-Critical | Starting mcpd manually at the command line interferes with running mcpd |
641582 | 3-Major | Rarely, an HSB transmitter failure occurs |
637559 | 3-Major | Modifying iRule online could cause TMM to be killed by SIGABRT |
637279-1 | 3-Major | Pool member discovery/autoscale does not work in eu-central-1 (Germany) region of AWS. |
635129-3 | 3-Major | Chassis systems in HA configuration become Active/Active during upgrade★ |
634115 | 3-Major | Not all topology records may sync. |
633512 | 3-Major | HA Auto-failback will cause an Active/Active overlap, or flapping, on VIPRION. |
632204 | 3-Major | Local Traffic Policies rule page is incorrectly showing all partition's objects in 'Forward traffic' actions |
631866 | 3-Major | Cannot access LTM policy rules in the web UI when the name contains certain characters |
631627 | 3-Major | Applying BWC over route domain sometimes results in tmm not becoming ready on system start |
631334-2 | 3-Major | TMSH does not preserve \? for config save/load operations |
630622 | 3-Major | tmm crash possible if high-speed logging pool member is deleted and reused |
630546-2 | 3-Major | Very large core files may cause corrupted qkviews |
628460 | 3-Major | Core happen when we try to delete PH2 struct does not have a proper PH1 reference. |
628202 | 3-Major | Audit-forwarder can take up an excessive amount of memory during a high volume of logging |
627914 | 3-Major | Unbundled 40GbE optics reporting as Unsupported Optic |
627214 | 3-Major | BGP ECMP recursive default route not redistributed to TMM |
626721 | 3-Major | "reset-stats auth login-failures" command for unknown users causes secondary mcpd processes to restart |
625703-3 | 3-Major | SELinux: snmpd is denied access to tmstat files |
624404 | 3-Major | Missing warning when typing current volume during a hotfix installation★ |
624361 | 3-Major | Responses to some of the challenge JS are not zipped. |
623930 | 3-Major | vCMP guests with vlangroups may loop packets internally |
623401 | 3-Major | Intermittent OCSP request failures due to non-optimal default TCP profile setting |
623391 | 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★ |
623336 | 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★ |
623019 | 3-Major | Disabling an interface when DDM is enabled may result in transmit power too low DDM mesages |
622877 | 3-Major | i2000 and i4000 series appliances may show intermittent DDM alarms/warnings at powerup that clear right away |
622378 | 3-Major | Inconsistent hardware syncookie protection mode on B2100/B4300 blades and 5000/7000/10000 appliances |
622199-4 | 3-Major | sys-icheck reports error with /var/lib/waagent |
622194-1 | 3-Major | sys-icheck reports error with ssh_host_rsa_key |
622183 | 3-Major | The alert daemon should remove old log files but it does not. |
622133 | 3-Major | VCMP guests may incorrectly obtain incorrect MAC addresses |
621909 | 3-Major | Uneven egress trunk distribution on 5000/10000 platforms with odd number of trunk members |
621423-1 | 3-Major | sys-icheck reports error with /config/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key |
621273 | 3-Major | DSR tunnels with transparent monitors may cause TMM crash. |
621259-4 | 3-Major | Config save takes long time if there is a large number of data groups |
621225-1 | 3-Major | LTM log contains misleading error messages for front panel interfaces, "PCI Device not found for Interface X.0" |
620969-1 | 3-Major | iControl doesn't give correct valid key sizes for FIPS keys on BIG-IP 5250, 7200F, 10200F, and 11050F platforms running the Cavium Nitrox XL FIPS cards. |
620366 | 3-Major | Alertd can not open UDP socket upon restart |
619410 | 3-Major | TMM hardware accelerated compression not registering for all compression levels. |
619097-1 | 3-Major | iControl REST slow performace on GET request for virtual servers |
618336 | 3-Major | mkdisk utility fails if the USB device has a GUID partition table |
618319 | 3-Major | HA pair will go Active/Active, and report peer as "offline" is network-failover service is blocked |
617986-1 | 3-Major | Memory leak in snmpd |
617628 | 3-Major | SNMP reports incorrect value for sysBladeTempTemperature OID |
617335 | 3-Major | Deleting self IP prompting error with subnet network address |
617229 | 3-Major | Local policy rule descriptions disappear when policy is re-saved |
617124-1 | 3-Major | Cannot map hardware type (12) to HardwareType enumeration |
616242 | 3-Major | basic_string::compare error in encrypted SSL key file if the first line of the file is blank★ |
615107-2 | 3-Major | Cannot SSH from AOM/SCCP to host without password (host-based authentication). |
614530 | 3-Major | Dynamic ECMP routes missing from Linux host |
614486 | 3-Major | BGP community lower bytes of zero is not allowed to be set in route-map |
614180 | 3-Major | ASM is not available in LTM policy when ASM is licensed as the main active module |
613788 | 3-Major | List GTM pools and wideips in a partition may result in objects from all partitions |
613765 | 3-Major | Creating 0.0.0.0:0 Virtual Server in TMUI results in slow-loading virtual server page and name resolution errors. |
613574 | 3-Major | Snapshots may be kept longer than expected in the file store |
613509 | 3-Major | 2000/4000 platform reuses source port too fast when fastL4 virtual sets source-port preserve |
613415 | 3-Major | Memory leak in ospfd when distribute-list is used |
612809 | 3-Major | Bootup script fails to run on on a vCMP guest due to a missing reference file. |
612752-2 | 3-Major | UCS load or upgrade may fail under certain conditions.★ |
611658-4 | 3-Major | "less" utility logs an error for remotely authenticated users using the tmsh shell |
611513 | 3-Major | Non-zero Route domain is not always used with OSCP, HTTP explicit proxy |
611512 | 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-Major | vCMP: VLAN failsafe does not trigger on guest |
611054 | 3-Major | Network failover "enable" setting is sometimes ignored on chassis systems |
610449 | 3-Major | restarting mcpd on guest makes block-device-images disappear |
610442 | 3-Major | lind on vcmp guest spins in restart loop if block-device-image with bad permissions is installed★ |
610441 | 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. |
610417 | 3-Major | Insecure ciphers included when device adds another device to the trust. TLSv1 is the only protocol supported. |
610352 | 3-Major | sys-icheck reports error with /etc/sysconfig/modules/unic.modules |
610350 | 3-Major | sys-icheck reports error with /config/bigpipe/defaults.scf |
610273 | 3-Major | Not possible to do targeted failover with HA Group configured |
609119 | 3-Major | Occasionally the logging system prints out a blank message: err mcpd[19114]: 01070711:3: |
609107 | 3-Major | mcpd does not properly validate missing 'sys folder' config in bigip_base.conf |
608320 | 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 |
607961 | 3-Major | Secondary blades restart when modifying a virtual server's route domain in a different partition. |
607716 | 3-Major | Licensing causes SELinux denied messages for mcpd★ |
606330 | 3-Major | The BIG-IP system does not accept BGP connection requests when using peer-groups and no default address family. |
606110 | 3-Major | BIG-IP VE dataplane interfaces change to using UNIC modules instead of sockets. |
605894 | 3-Major | Remote authentication for BIG-IP users can fail |
605270 | 3-Major | On some platforms the SYN-Cookie status report is not accurate |
604938 | 3-Major | Log IPsec tunnel up/down events |
604469 | 3-Major | Successive remote log operations trigger iRule Tcl error |
604237 | 3-Major | Vlan allowed mismatch found error in VCMP guest |
604061 | 3-Major | Link Aggregation Control Protocol May Lose Synchronization after TMM Crash |
603772 | 3-Major | Floating tunnels with names more than 15 characters may cause issues during config-sync. |
603149 | 3-Major | Large ike-phase2-lifetime-kilobytes values in racoon ipsec-policy |
602854 | 3-Major | Missing ASM control option from LTM policy rule screen in the Configuration utility |
602566 | 3-Major | sod daemon may crash during start-up |
602502 | 3-Major | Unable to view the SSL Cert list from the GUI |
601989 | 3-Major | Remote LDAP system authenticated username is case sensitive★ |
601938 | 3-Major | MCPD stores certain data incorrectly |
601888 | 3-Major | IKE Peer name not validated against special characters |
601709-1 | 3-Major | I2C error recovery for BIGIP 4340N/4300 blades |
601502 | 3-Major | Excessive OCSP traffic |
601414 | 3-Major | Combined use of session and table irule commands can result in intermittent session lookup failures |
600970 | 3-Major | IPsec racoon daemon 100% cpu busy |
600570 | 3-Major | VE License may enforce improper TMM count |
600558 | 3-Major | Errors logged after deleting user in GUI |
599816 | 3-Major | Packet redirections occur when using VLAN groups with members that have different cmp-hash settings. |
599543 | 3-Major | Cannot update (overwrite) PKCS#12 SSL cert & key while referenced in SSL profile |
598498 | 3-Major | Cannot remove Self IP when an unrelated static ARP entry exists. |
598443 | 3-Major | Temporary files from TMSH not being cleaned up intermittently. |
598039 | 3-Major | MCP memory may leak when performing a wildcard query |
597823 | 3-Major | Erroneous syncookie validation in HSB causes the BIG-IP system choose the wrong MSS value |
597818 | 3-Major | Unable to configure IPsec NAT-T to "force" |
597766 | 3-Major | FPS Live update after re-license |
597729 | 3-Major | Errors logged after deleting user in GUI |
597309 | 3-Major | Increase the Maximum Members Per Trunk limit to 32 or 64 for high end platforms |
596826 | 3-Major | Don't set the mirroring address to a floating self IP address |
596815 | 3-Major | System DNS nameserver and search order configuration does not always sync to peers |
596814 | 3-Major | HA Failover fails in certain valid AWS configurations |
596556 | 3-Major | Deleting self-ip that could possibly strand pool member will throw warning instead |
596104 | 3-Major | HA trunk unavailable for VCMP guest★ |
596067-3 | 3-Major | GUI on VIPRION hangs on secondary blade reboot |
595773 | 3-Major | Cancellation requests for chunked stats queries do not propagate to secondary blades |
595317 | 3-Major | Forwarding address for Type 7 in ospfv3 is not updated in the database |
594426 | 3-Major | Audit forwarding Radius packets may be rejected by Radius server |
592870 | 3-Major | Fast successive MTU changes to IPsec tunnel interface crashes TMM |
592700 | 3-Major | iControl SOAP method System.Failover.get_peer_address might return incorrect value. |
592320 | 3-Major | ePVA does not offload UDP when pva-offload-state set to establish in BIG-IP 12.1.0 and 12.1.1 |
590938 | 3-Major | The CMI rsync daemon may fail to start |
590904 | 3-Major | New HA Pair created using serial cable failover only will remain Active/Active |
589083 | 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. |
588606 | 3-Major | HTML_TAG_MATCHED fired for not matching tags. |
587668-1 | 3-Major | LCD Checkmark button does not always bring up clearing prompt on VIPRION blades. |
586887 | 3-Major | SCTP tmm crash with virtual server destination. |
586878 | 3-Major | During upgrade, configuration fails to load due to clientssl profile with empty cert/key configuration.★ |
585833-2 | 3-Major | Qkview will abort if /shared partition has less than 2GB free space |
585786 | 3-Major | BWC policy object retrieval through XConfig interface fails |
585547 | 3-Major | NTP configuration items are no longer collected by qkview★ |
585485 | 3-Major | inter-ability with "delete IPSEC-SA" between AZURE, ASA and BIGIP |
585332-4 | 3-Major | Virtual Edition network settings aren't pinned correctly on startup★ |
583502 | 3-Major | Considerations for transferring files from F5 devices |
583475 | 3-Major | The BIG-IP may core while recompiling LTM policies |
583285 | 3-Major | BIG-IP logs INVALID-SPI messages but does not remove the associated SAs. |
583108 | 3-Major | Zebos issue: No neighbor x.x.x.x activate in address-family IPv6 lost on reboot/restart. |
583043 | 3-Major | tmm segfault: ikev2_noncecmp (n1=0x0, n2=0x0) |
582127 | 3-Major | VE OVA logrotate max-file-size too big for /var/log partition size |
582084 | 3-Major | BWC policy in device sync groups. |
581945 | 3-Major | Device-group "datasync-global-dg" becomes out-of-sync every hour |
580602 | 3-Major | Configuration containing LTM nodes with IPv6 link-local addresses fail to load. |
580500 | 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. |
579843 | 3-Major | tmrouted may not re-announce routes after a specific succession of failover states |
579565 | 3-Major | FIPS (ngfips) card-sync fails due to its lacking ability to properly handle "\" in the SO (security officer) password. |
579529-1 | 3-Major | Stats file descriptors kept open in spawned child processes |
579047-2 | 3-Major | Unable to update the default http-explicit profile using the GUI. |
578551 | 3-Major | bop "network 0.0.0.0/0 route-map Default" configuration is lost after after restart/reboot |
576305 | 3-Major | Potential MCPd leak in IPSEC SPD stats query code |
575919-1 | 3-Major | Running concurrent TMSH instances can result in error in access to history file |
575735-4 | 3-Major | Potential MCPd leak in global CPU info stats code |
575708-4 | 3-Major | MCPd might leak memory in CPU info stats. |
575671-4 | 3-Major | MCPd might leak memory in host info stats. |
575649-4 | 3-Major | MCPd might leak memory in IPFIX destination stats query |
575619-4 | 3-Major | Potential MCPd leak in pool member stats query code |
575608-4 | 3-Major | MCPd might leak memory in virtual server stats query. |
575591 | 3-Major | Potential MCPd leak in IKE message stats query code |
575589 | 3-Major | Potential MCPd leak in IKE event stats query code |
575587 | 3-Major | Potential MCPd leak in BWC policy class stats query code |
575176 | 3-Major | Syn Cookie cache statistics on ePVA enabled devices is incremented with UDP traffic |
575066 | 3-Major | Management DHCP settings do not take effect |
575027-4 | 3-Major | Tagged VLAN configurations with a cmp-hash setting for the VLAN, might result in performance issues. |
573355 | 3-Major | Object properties values containing spaces are prefixed by the partition name |
573249 | 3-Major | Setting Encryption Algorithm for AH IPsec Policy is now ignored. |
573247 | 3-Major | GRE PPTP tunnels created via the relate_client and relate_server iRules commands may fail. |
573245 | 3-Major | IPsec Phase 1 and Phase 2 authentication algorithms now defaults to SHA-256. |
573235 | 3-Major | IPsec Phase 1 and Phase 2 authentication algorithms default to SHA-1 in the GUI |
572871 | 3-Major | TMM logs an incorrect error message when invalid regex pattern is used for LTM profiles |
570845 | 3-Major | Configuration infrastructure should reject invalid 'None' option for IKE Peer Phase 1 Perfect Forward Secrecy |
570839 | 3-Major | IPsec IKE-v2 Peer UI does not prevent configuration of 'NONE' option using Microsoft Internet Explorer. |
570818 | 3-Major | Address lease-pool in IKEv2 might interfere with IKEv2 negotiations. |
569609 | 3-Major | Wireshark vulnerabilities |
569331 | 3-Major | Recovery from Amazon Network Failure may associate some virtual addresses to the standby BIG-IP |
569025 | 3-Major | iControl query does not respect global cli settings when returning service values (number vs name). |
568765 | 3-Major | CSR administrative Email attribute and Certificate Subject’s DN Email address |
568672 | 3-Major | Down IPsec traffic-selector shows as 'up' in 'show net ipsec traffic-selector' and in GUI |
566507 | 3-Major | Wrong advertised next-hop in BGP for a traffic group in Active-Active deployment |
566327 | 3-Major | 1 tmm allocated per 2GB of RAM |
562928-4 | 3-Major | Curl connections with 'local-port' option fail sometimes over IPsec tunnels when connection.vlankeyed db variable is disabled |
562676 | 3-Major | No virtual servers display on multi-page, multiple partition configurations. |
561444 | 3-Major | LCD might display incorrect output. |
559855 | 3-Major | Device rename on standalone device will cause it to momentarily go offline |
557471 | 3-Major | LTM Policy statistics showing zeros in GUI |
553795 | 3-Major | Differing certificate/key after successful config-sync |
551349-2 | 3-Major | Non-explicit (*) IPv4 monitor destination address is converted to IPv6 on upgrade★ |
549593 | 3-Major | postgres database configuration details are now captured by qkview |
547479 | 3-Major | Under unknown circumstances sometimes a sessionDB subkey entry becomes corrupted |
546940 | 3-Major | Per VLAN/tmm based hardware SYN-cookie enhancement is a hardware-only feature |
546145 | 3-Major | Creating local user for previously remote user results in incomplete user definition. |
545946 | 3-Major | Vlangroup may have its MAC address set to 02:00:00:00:00 on first configuration load★ |
540872 | 3-Major | Config sync fails after creating a partition. |
536475 | 3-Major | As more virtual addresses are added to the BIG-IP running in AWS, the network failover time increases. |
534520 | 3-Major | qkview may exclude certain log files from /var/log |
530010 | 3-Major | FIPS firmware v2.2 update on BIG-IP 5250, 7200F, 10200F, and 11050F platforms running the Cavium Nitrox XL FIPS cards. |
528684 | 3-Major | Guest cannot ping any management IP on the local host system when guest-to-host communication is enabled |
527206 | 3-Major | Management interface may flap due to LOP sync error |
525580 | 3-Major | tmsh load sys config merge file filename.scf base command does not work as expected |
524193 | 3-Major | Multiple Source addresses are not allowed on a TMSH SNMP community |
524123 | 3-Major | iRule ISTATS::remove does not work |
521270 | 3-Major | Hypervisor might replace vCMP guest SYN-Cookie secrets |
512147 | 3-Major | No SNMP traps from APM |
509497 | 3-Major | VCMP guests on a specific host may be restarted when that host system experiences large date/time changes |
500452-5 | 3-Major | PB4300 blade doesn't disaggregate ESP traffic based on IP addresses in hareware |
490643 | 3-Major | iControl REST API is unable to retrieve any sys service attributes via GET request |
488430 | 3-Major | Suspend/save/migrate LTM VE functionality is not supported for Community XEN. |
483141 | 3-Major | mcpd might restart when creating large numbers of traffic groups and devices |
481001 | 3-Major | Software auto update schedule settings are not synced |
472553 | 3-Major | eventd sweep timer scheduling on deleted consumer can cause CPU and memory consumption to grow |
471029-1 | 3-Major | If the configuration contains a filename with the $ character, then saving the UCS fails. |
466016 | 3-Major | Graceful Restart does not function when primary blade is rebooted |
464572 | 3-Major | Validation of IP/mask for SNMP allowed-addresses list. |
427223-1 | 3-Major | VIPRION C4800-series chassis Annunciator card numbering appears backwards |
424542 | 3-Major | tmsh modify net interface with invalid interface name or attributes will create an interface in cluster or VE environments |
421851-2 | 3-Major | Config load does not skip leading whitespaces if iRule starts with # |
401569 | 3-Major | VADC: Virtual Servers are not accessible through VLAN without any interface. |
393270 | 3-Major | Configuration utility may become non-responsive or fail to load. |
392140 | 3-Major | GTM Device IP translation address not available from iControl |
625291 | 4-Minor | dhclient doesn't honor 'interface-mtu' request-options |
619706 | 4-Minor | tmsh appears to allow password change for internal lcd admin user |
603087 | 4-Minor | Cannot access Security tab (needed for assigning ASM/FPS profiles) when viewing the Resources tab. |
602508 | 4-Minor | Capture historical changes of config files |
601927 | 4-Minor | Security hardening of control plane |
601168 | 4-Minor | Incorrect virtual server CPU utilization may be observed. |
599515 | 4-Minor | TCP Keep Alive Interval Indefinite mapped to the 0 value instead of 4294967295. |
598917 | 4-Minor | TMSH and GUI might display a different common name from that is used by the system and displayed in the past. |
591437 | 4-Minor | Unexpected/incorrect max CPU utilization statistics/performance values. |
589862 | 4-Minor | HA Grioup percent-up display value is truncated, not rounded |
589379 | 4-Minor | ZebOS adds and deletes an extraneous LSA after deleting a route that matches a summary suppression route. |
586858 | 4-Minor | Modifications to custom provisioning ratios via GUI are not saved in System :: Resource Provisioning. |
586368 | 4-Minor | Permissions problem on /var/log/sa6 |
585097 | 4-Minor | Traffic Group score formula does not result in unique values. |
584788 | 4-Minor | Directed failover of HA pair using only hardwire failover will fail |
584504 | 4-Minor | Allowing non-English characters on login screen |
584113 | 4-Minor | "Util% (last 10 sec)" Field in "tmsh show sys cpu" when 5 second average is computed |
583777 | 4-Minor | [TMSH] sys crypto cert missing tab completion function |
581835 | 4-Minor | Command failing: tmsh show ltm virtual vs_name detail. |
578843 | 4-Minor | GUI strips out 0.0.0.0 masks from the SNMP Client Allow Lists. |
573031 | 4-Minor | qkview may not collect certain configuration files in their entirety |
571789 | 4-Minor | cert-key-chain drop-downs are not set to inherited values. |
567546 | 4-Minor | Files with file names larger than 100 characters are omitted from qkview |
564771 | 4-Minor | cron sends purge_mysql_logs.pl email error on LTM-only device |
564522-1 | 4-Minor | cron is configured with MAILTO=root but mailhost defaults to 'mail' |
562257 | 4-Minor | Route domain addresses can be selected when configuring device connectivity |
559837 | 4-Minor | Misleading error message in catalina.out when listing certificates. |
558237 | 4-Minor | No Audit logging on 'Clear Performance Data' from statistics page in GUI. |
515764-7 | 4-Minor | PVA stats only being reported on virtual-server and system-level basis. |
505947 | 4-Minor | SSL Client Certificate LDAP host IP address does not allow port entry in field. |
497725 | 4-Minor | Qkview does not include the incremental ConfigSync cache |
420558 | 4-Minor | External Datagroup records not listed |
617161 | 5-Cosmetic | Cosmetic: duplicated partition names in the "Resource Management" window when assigning iRules to Virtual Servers. |
590399 | 5-Cosmetic | Unnecessary logging during startup: 'Unable to connect to MCPD' and Errdefsd is starting'. |
583754 | 5-Cosmetic | When TMM is down, executing 'show ltm persist persist-records' results in a blank error message. |
582844 | 5-Cosmetic | Start Screen Guest List is not available |
555380 | 5-Cosmetic | "Data publisher not found or not implemented" messages in ltm log when running qkview |
466285 | 5-Cosmetic | In Chrome browser, displayed user role switches to Unknown for few seconds after switching partitions. |
425339 | 5-Cosmetic | GUI shows incorrect number of members of pool in HA group after pool config is sync'ed from peer unit. |
Local Traffic Manager Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
621452 | 1-Blocking | Connections can stall with TCP::collect iRule |
618905 | 1-Blocking | tmm core while installing Safenet 6.2 client |
589006 | 1-Blocking | SSL does not cancel pending sign request before the handshake times out or is canceled. |
634265 | 2-Critical | Using route pools whose members aren't directly connected may crash the TMM. |
632685-1 | 2-Critical | bigd memory leak for FQDN nodes on non-primary bigd instance |
632552 | 2-Critical | tmm crashes when CLIENT_CLOSED or SERVER_CLOSED is used with parking command in another event |
630475 | 2-Critical | TMM Crash |
630306 | 2-Critical | TMM crash in DNS processing on UDP virtual server with no available pool members |
630150 | 2-Critical | Websockets processing error |
629145 | 2-Critical | External datagroups with no metadata can crash tmm |
628890 | 2-Critical | Memory leak when modifying large datagroups |
628836 | 2-Critical | TMM crash during request normalization |
627403 | 2-Critical | HTTP2 can can crash tmm when stats is updated on aborting of a new connection |
626360-1 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash when processing HTTP2 traffic |
625198 | 2-Critical | TMM might crash when TCP DSACK is enabled |
624526 | 2-Critical | TMM core in mptcp |
619663 | 2-Critical | Terminating of HTTP2 connection may cause a TMM crash |
619528 | 2-Critical | TMM may accumulate internal events resulting in TMM restart |
619071 | 2-Critical | OneConnect with verified accept issues |
616215 | 2-Critical | TMM can core when using LB::detach and TCP::notify commands in an iRule |
615388 | 2-Critical | L7 policies using normalized HTTP URI or Referrer operands may corrupt memory |
614509 | 2-Critical | iRule use of 'all' keyword with 'class match' on large external datagroups may result in TMM restart |
613088 | 2-Critical | pkcs11d thread has session initialization problem. |
612229 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash if LTM a disable policy action for 'LTM Policy' is not last |
611704 | 2-Critical | tmm crash with TCP::close in CLIENTSSL_CLIENTCERT iRule event |
610862 | 2-Critical | TCP retransmits unnecessarily when IPv4 ICMP frag needed and tm.enforcepathmtu disabled. |
609628 | 2-Critical | CLIENTSSL_SERVERHELLO_SEND event in SSL forward proxy is not raised when client reuses session |
609199 | 2-Critical | Debug TMM produces core when an MPTCP connection times out while a subflow is trying to join |
609027 | 2-Critical | TMM crashes when SSL forward proxy is enabled. |
608555 | 2-Critical | Configuring asymmetric routing with a VE rate limited license will result in tmm crash |
607724 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash when in Fallback state. |
607524 | 2-Critical | Memory leak when multiple DHCP servers are configured, and the last DHCP server configured is down. |
607360 | 2-Critical | Safenet 6.2 library missing after upgrade★ |
607304-6 | 2-Critical | TMM is killed by SOD (missing heartbeat) during geoip_reload performing munmap. |
606573 | 2-Critical | FTP traffic does not work through SNAT when configured without Virtual Server★ |
605865 | 2-Critical | Debug TMM produces core on certain ICMP PMTUD packets |
604926 | 2-Critical | The TMM may become unresponsive when using SessionDB data larger than ~400K |
603690 | 2-Critical | CPU Saver option not working while the "latency" compression provider selection algorithm is in use. |
603667 | 2-Critical | TMM may leak or corrupt memory when configuration changes occur with plugins in use |
603082 | 2-Critical | Ephemeral pool members are getting deleted/created over and over again. |
603032 | 2-Critical | clientssl profiles with sni-default enabled may leak X509 objects |
602326 | 2-Critical | Intermittent pkcs11d core when installing Safenet 6.2 software |
602136 | 2-Critical | iRule drop command causes tmm segfault or still sends 3-way handshake to the server. |
601828 | 2-Critical | An untrusted certificate can cause TMM to crash. |
600982 | 2-Critical | TMM crashes at ssl_cache_sid() with "prf->cache.sid == 0" |
599769-2 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash when managing APM clients. |
599720 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash in bigtcp due to null pointer dereference |
599135 | 2-Critical | B2250 blades may suffer from high TMM CPU utilisation with tcpdump |
598052 | 2-Critical | SSL Forward Proxy "Cache Certificate by Addr-Port", cache lookup fails |
597978 | 2-Critical | GARPs may be transmitted by active going offline |
597828 | 2-Critical | SSL forward proxy crashes in some cases |
596450 | 2-Critical | TMM may produce a core file after updating SSL session ticket key |
594642 | 2-Critical | Stream filter may require large allocations by Tcl leading TMM to core on allocation failure. |
592699-2 | 2-Critical | IPv6 data pulled from the BIG-IP system via HTTPS, SCP, SSH, DNS or SMTP performance |
591139-1 | 2-Critical | TMM QAT segfault after zlib/QAT compression conflation. |
589223 | 2-Critical | TMM crash and core dump when processing SSL protocol alert. |
588959 | 2-Critical | Standby box may crash or behave abnormally |
588351 | 2-Critical | IPv6 fragments are dropped when packet filtering is enabled. |
588115 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash with traffic to floating self-ip in range overlapping route via unreachable gw |
586862 | 2-Critical | Tcl evaluation outside of an iRule can lead to tmm crash when the payload is synchronously released from below HTTP via an iRule. |
586587 | 2-Critical | RatePaceMaxRate functionality does not work for the TCP flows where the round-trip time (RTT) is less than 6ms. |
586449 | 2-Critical | Incorrect error handling in HTTP cookie results in core when TMM runs out of memory |
584926 | 2-Critical | Accelerated compression segfault when devices are all in error state. |
584213 | 2-Critical | Transparent HTTP profiles cannot have iRules configured |
583700 | 2-Critical | tmm core on out of memory |
583355 | 2-Critical | The TMM may crash when changing profiles associated with plugins |
580303 | 2-Critical | When going from active to offline, tmm might send a GARP for a floating address. |
580026 | 2-Critical | HSM logging error |
578045 | 2-Critical | The HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST iRule event can cause the TMM to crash if pipelined ingress occurs when the iRule parks |
575011 | 2-Critical | Fix memory leak. |
574880 | 2-Critical | Excessive failures observed when connection rate limit is configured on a fastl4 virtual server. |
566071 | 2-Critical | network-HSM may not be operational on secondary slots of a standby chassis. |
565409-1 | 2-Critical | Invalid MSS with HW syncookies and flow forwarding |
559030 | 2-Critical | TMM may core during ILX RPC activity if a connflow closes before the RPC returns |
557358 | 2-Critical | TMM SIGSEGV and crash when memory allocation fails. |
545810-4 | 2-Critical | ASSERT in CSP in packet_reuse |
540568 | 2-Critical | TMM core due to SIGSEGV |
527976 | 2-Critical | pagemem tmctl table changed to page_stats |
459671 | 2-Critical | iRules source different procs from different partitions and executes the incorrect proc. |
423629 | 2-Critical | bigd cores when route-domain tagged to a pool with monitor as gateway_ICMP is deleted |
632968 | 3-Major | supported_signature_algorithms extension in CertificateRequest sent by a TLS server fails |
632324 | 3-Major | PVA stats does not show correct connection number |
632001 | 3-Major | For Thales net-HSMs, fipskey.nethsm now defaults to module protected keys |
629412 | 3-Major | BIG-IP closes a connection when a maximum size window is attempted |
627926 | 3-Major | iRule decryption does not work |
626434 | 3-Major | tmm may be killed by sod when a hardware accelerator does not work |
626106 | 3-Major | LTM Policy with illegal rule name loses its conditions and actions during upgrade★ |
624903 | 3-Major | Zero length SSL records improperly processed with AES-GCM on 2000s/2200s, 4000s/4200v, B4450 platforms |
624846 | 3-Major | TCP Fast Open does not work for Responses < 1 MSS |
624616 | 3-Major | Safenet uninstall is unable to remove libgem.so |
623940 | 3-Major | SSL Handshake fails if client tries to negotiate EC ciphers but does not present ec_point_formats extension in ClientHello |
622148 | 3-Major | flow generated icmp error message need to consider which side of the proxy they are |
622017 | 3-Major | RRD files are not backed up if the /shared/rrd.backup directory already exists |
621843 | 3-Major | the ipother proxy is sending icmp error messages to the wrong side |
621736 | 3-Major | statsd does not handle SIGCHLD properly in all cases |
620079 | 3-Major | Removing route-domain may cause monitors to fail |
619872 | 3-Major | BigIP upgrading doesn't carry over Thales configuration on the secondary slot |
619849 | 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. |
619701 | 3-Major | rate_limit can affect to iClient connectivity |
618517 | 3-Major | bigd may falsely complain of a file descriptor leak when it cannot open its debug log file |
618428-1 | 3-Major | iRules LX - Debug mode does not function in dedicated mode |
618161 | 3-Major | SSL handshake fails when clientssl uses softcard-protected key-certs. |
618104 | 3-Major | Connection Using TCP::collect iRule May Not Close |
618024 | 3-Major | software switched platforms accept traffic on lacp trunks even when the trunk is down |
617862 | 3-Major | Fastl4 handshake timeout is absolute instead of relative |
617858 | 3-Major | bigd core when using Tcl monitors |
617824 | 3-Major | "SSL::disable/enable serverside" + oneconnect reuse is broken |
616022 | 3-Major | The BIG-IP monitor process fails to process timeout conditions |
615143 | 3-Major | VDI plugin-initiated connections may select inappropriate SNAT address |
614147 | 3-Major | SOCKS proxy defect resolution |
614097 | 3-Major | HTTP Explicit proxy defect resolution |
613618 | 3-Major | The TMM crashes in the websso plugin. |
613483 | 3-Major | Some SSL certificate SHA verification fails for different SHA prefix used by crypto codec. |
613429 | 3-Major | Unable to assign wildcard wide IPs to various BIG-IP DNS objects. |
613369 | 3-Major | Half-Open TCP Connections Not Discoverable |
613079 | 3-Major | Diameter monitor watchdog timeout fires after only 3 seconds |
613065 | 3-Major | User can't generate netHSM key with Safenet 6.2 client using GUI |
612694 | 3-Major | TCP::close with no pool member results in zombie flows |
612554 | 3-Major | Some SSL certificate SHA verification fails for different SHA prefix used by Crypto |
612040-5 | 3-Major | Statistics added for all crypto queues |
611652 | 3-Major | iRule script validation presents incorrect warning for 'HTTP::cookie cookie-name' command. |
611482 | 3-Major | Local persistence record kept alive after owner persistence record times out (when using pool command in an iRule) . |
611320 | 3-Major | Mirrored connection on Active unit of HA pair may be unexpectedly torndown |
610609 | 3-Major | Total connections in bigtop, SNMP are incorrect |
610429 | 3-Major | X509::cert_fields iRule command may memory with subpubkey argument |
610302 | 3-Major | Link throughput graphs might be incorrect. |
609244-5 | 3-Major | tmsh show ltm persistence persist-records leaks memory |
608551 | 3-Major | Half-closed congested SSL connections with unclean shutdown might stall. |
608024 | 3-Major | Unnecessary DTLS retransmissions occur during handshake. |
607803 | 3-Major | DTLS client (serverssl profile) fails to complete resumed handshake. |
607410 | 3-Major | In the iRule output of X509 Certificate's subject & issuer, the display is wrong. |
607152 | 3-Major | Large Websocket frames corrupted |
606940 | 3-Major | Clustered Multiprocessing (CMP) peer connection may not be removed |
606575 | 3-Major | Request-oriented OneConnect load balancing ends when the server returns an error status code. |
606565 | 3-Major | TMM may crash when /sys db tm.simultaneousopen is set to reset or drop_connection |
605682 | 3-Major | With forward proxy enabled, sometimes the client connection will not complete. |
604977 | 3-Major | Wrong alert when DTLS cookie size is 32 |
604880 | 3-Major | tmm assert "valid pcb" in tcp.c |
604838 | 3-Major | TCP Analytics reports incorrectly reports entities as "Aggregated" |
604496 | 3-Major | SQL (Oracle) monitor daemon might hang. |
604133 | 3-Major | Ramcache may leave the HTTP Cookie Cache in an inconsistent state |
603979 | 3-Major | Data transfer from the BIG-IP system self IP might be slow |
603723 | 3-Major | TLS v1.0 fallback can be triggered intermittently and fail with restrictive server setup |
603550 | 3-Major | Virtual servers that use both FastL4 and HTTP profiles at same time will have incorrect syn cache stats. |
603236 | 3-Major | 1k/4k creation issue at Safenet 6.2 + 6.10.9 fw |
602385 | 3-Major | Add zLib compression |
602366 | 3-Major | Safenet 6.2 HA performance |
602358 | 3-Major | BIG-IP ServerSSL connection may reset during rengotiation with some SSL/TLS servers due to ClientHello version |
602040 | 3-Major | Truncated support ID for HTTP protocol security logging profile |
601496 | 3-Major | iRules and OCSP Stapling |
601178 | 3-Major | HTTP cookie persistence 'preferred' encryption |
600944 | 3-Major | tmsh does not reset route domain to 0 after cd /Common and loading bash |
600827 | 3-Major | Stuck nitrox crypto queue can erroneously be reported |
600614 | 3-Major | External crypto offload fails when SSL connection is renegotiated |
600593 | 3-Major | Use of HTTP Explicit Proxy and OneConnect can lead to an issue with CONNECT HTTP requests |
600052 | 3-Major | GUI displaying "Internal Server Error" page when there many (~3k) certs/keys in the system |
599054 | 3-Major | LTM policies may incorrectly use those of another virtual server |
598874 | 3-Major | GTM Resolver sends FIN after SYN retransmission timeout |
597899 | 3-Major | Disabling all pool members may not be reflected in Virtual Server status |
597879 | 3-Major | CDG Congestion Control can lead to instability |
597708 | 3-Major | Stats are unavailable and VCMP state and status is incorrect |
597621 | 3-Major | Packet filter does not work. |
597532 | 3-Major | iRule: RADIUS avp command returns a signed integer |
597405 | 3-Major | Mitigate SSL handshake delay when TCP nagle is enabled. |
597253 | 3-Major | HTTP::respond tcl command may incorrectly identify parameters as ifiles |
597089 | 3-Major | Connections are terminated after 5 seconds when using ePVA full acceleration |
596433 | 3-Major | Virtual with lasthop configured rejects request with no route to client. |
595966 | 3-Major | SSL hardware acceleration statistics might be incorrect. |
595921 | 3-Major | VLAN groups with no Self IP addresses defined might generate ICMP messages with loopback addresses. |
595385 | 3-Major | HTTP:respond causes a keepalive connection to be RST after second request and "Invalid action" log. |
595281 | 3-Major | TCP Analytics reports huge goodput numbers |
595275-1 | 3-Major | Virtual IP address change might cause VIP state to go from GREEN to RED to GREEN |
594302 | 3-Major | Connection hangs when processing large compressed responses from server |
593530 | 3-Major | In rare cases, connections may fail to expire |
593390 | 3-Major | Profile lookup when selected via iRule ('SSL::profile') might cause memory issues. |
592871 | 3-Major | Cavium Nitrox PX/III stuck queue diagnostics missing. |
592854 | 3-Major | Protocol version set incorrectly on serverssl renegotiation |
592784-1 | 3-Major | Compression stalls, does not recover, and compression facilities cease. |
592682 | 3-Major | TCP: connections may stall or be dropped |
592620 | 3-Major | iRule validation does not catch incorrect 'after' syntax |
592497 | 3-Major | Idle timeout ineffective for FIN_WAIT_2 when server-side expired and HTTP in fallback state. |
591666 | 3-Major | TMM crash in DNS processing on TCP virtual with no available pool members |
591659 | 3-Major | Server shutdown is propagated to client after X-Cnection: close transformation. |
591476 | 3-Major | Stuck nitrox crypto queue can erroneously be reported |
591343 | 3-Major | SSL::sessionid output is not consistent with the sessionid field of ServerHello message. |
590244 | 3-Major | False alert cn decryption failure log when peer (client) drops the TCP session during decryption. |
590156 | 3-Major | Connections to an APM virtual server may be reset and fail on appliance and VE platforms. |
589400 | 3-Major | With Nagle disabled, TCP does not send all of xfrags with size greater than MSS. |
588720 | 3-Major | Fast Forwarded UDP packets might be dropped if datagram-load-balancing is enabled. |
588089 | 3-Major | SSL resumed connections may fail during mirroring |
587966 | 3-Major | LTM fastL4 DNS virtual server: first A query dropped when A and AAAA requested at the same time with same source IP:port |
587773 | 3-Major | Add support for Thales version 12.10.01 |
587705-2 | 3-Major | Persist lookups fail for source_addr with match-across-virtuals when multiple entries exist with different pools. |
587678 | 3-Major | LTM SSL should do a full handshake when peer attempts to resume a session with a different client TLS version. |
587096 | 3-Major | Incorrect result returned from IP::tos iRule in the FLOW_INIT event. |
587016 | 3-Major | SIP monitor in TLS mode marks pool member down after positive response. |
586738 | 3-Major | The tmm might crash with a segfault. |
586660 | 3-Major | HTTP/ramcache2 and RAM Cache are not compatible. |
585813-1 | 3-Major | SIP monitor with TLS mode fails to find cert and key files. |
585412 | 3-Major | SMTPS virtual server with activation-mode allow will RST non-TLS connections with Email bodies with very long lines |
584471 | 3-Major | Priority order of clientssl profile selection of virtual server. |
584310-5 | 3-Major | TCP:Collect ignores the 'skip' parameter when used in serverside events |
584029-1 | 3-Major | Fragmented packets may cause tmm to core under heavy load |
583957 | 3-Major | The TMM may hang handling pipelined HTTP requests with certain iRule commands. |
582769 | 3-Major | WebSockets frames are not forwarded with Websocket profile and ASM enabled on virtual |
582487-1 | 3-Major | 'merged.method' set to 'slow_merge,' does not update system stats |
582465 | 3-Major | Cannot generate key after SafeNet HSM is rebooted |
582207 | 3-Major | MSS may exceed MTU when using HW syncookies |
581077 | 3-Major | Connection can’t be established when multiple clientssl profiles are attached if the default profile is disabled. |
580591 | 3-Major | HTTP monitor NTLM authentication requires domain to be uppercase |
580031 | 3-Major | Using OneConnect with forwarded flows might cause resets |
579926 | 3-Major | HTTP starts dropping traffic for a half-closed connection when in passthrough mode |
579371 | 3-Major | BigIP may generate ARPs after transition to standby |
578971 | 3-Major | When mcpd is restarted on a blade, cluster members may be temporarily marked as failed |
578951 | 3-Major | TCP Fast Open connection timeout during handshake does not decrement pre_established_connections |
578573 | 3-Major | SSL Forward Proxy Forged Certificate Signature Algorithm |
576311 | 3-Major | HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) configuration error when no clientssl profile is present |
575347 | 3-Major | Unexpected backslashes remain in monitor 'username' attribute after upgrade |
573608 | 3-Major | BIG-IP's Proxy-SSL is unable to handle fragmented SSL handshakes |
573366 | 3-Major | parking command used in the nesting script of clientside and serverside command can cause tmm core |
572895-1 | 3-Major | TCP forwarded flows are reset when time wait recycle of port happens |
572281 | 3-Major | Variable value in the nesting script of foreach command get reset when there is parking command in the script |
570570 | 3-Major | Default crypto failure action is now "go-offline-downlinks". |
570277 | 3-Major | SafeNet client not able to establish session to all HSMs on all blades. |
570057 | 3-Major | Can't install more than 16 SafeNet HSMs in its HA group |
569288 | 3-Major | Different LACP key may be used in different blades in a chassis system causing trunking failures |
569206 | 3-Major | After connectivity loss and restoration between HSM and pkcs11d, SSL fails on some blades. |
565799 | 3-Major | CPU Usage increases when using masquerade addresses |
565757 | 3-Major | kernel static route can become invalid in a SelfIp transaction |
563933 | 3-Major | [DNS] dns64-additional-section-rewrite v4-only does not rewrite v4 RRs |
563491 | 3-Major | BIG-IP SSL does not support Extended Master Secret Extension (RFC7627) |
561841 | 3-Major | Floating IPv6 anycast address for HA results in intermittent communication loss |
560471 | 3-Major | Changing the monitor configuration of a pool can cause the virtual server to be briefly logged as down |
559819 | 3-Major | DNS queries with OPT have no OPT in response for RFC 6891 compliance. |
554761-8 | 3-Major | Unexpected handling of TCP timestamps under syncookie protection. |
551208 | 3-Major | Nokia alarms are not deleted due to the outdated alert_nokia.conf. |
550161 | 3-Major | Networking devices might block a packet that has a TTL value higher than 230. |
549329 | 3-Major | L7 mirrored ACK from standby to active box can cause tmm core on active |
545796 | 3-Major | [iRule] [Stats] iRule is not generating any stats for executed iRules. |
545450 | 3-Major | Log activation/deactivation of TM.TCPMemoryPressure |
543994 | 3-Major | Expose pre_established_connections in tmm.tcp and tmm.tcp4 |
537553 | 3-Major | tmm might crash after modifying virtual server SSL profiles in SNI configuration under load |
536563 | 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. |
535041 | 3-Major | BIG-IP system drops UDP packets while iRule is suspended |
534457-3 | 3-Major | Dynamically discovered routes might fail to remirror connections. |
531979 | 3-Major | SSL version in the record layer of ClientHello is not set to be the lowest supported version. |
530266-5 | 3-Major | Rate limit configured on a node can be exceeded |
528007-8 | 3-Major | Memory leak in ssl |
523318 | 3-Major | Creating too many iFiles causes tmm crash. |
522310 | 3-Major | ICMP errors cause the associated FastL4/TCP connection to be reset |
515635 | 3-Major | Tcl monitor not working with Courier IMAP server |
511324 | 3-Major | HTTP::disable does not work after the first request/response. |
509858-4 | 3-Major | BIG-IP FastL4 profile vulnerability |
506543-2 | 3-Major | Disabled ephemeral pool members continue to receive new connections |
490771 | 3-Major | There is no configurable TCP timewait timer for Fast L4 virtual servers. |
484542 | 3-Major | QinQ tag-mode can be set on unsupported platforms |
483953 | 3-Major | Cached route MTUs may be set to the value of TM.MinPathMTU even if the path MTU is lower than that value. |
476524 | 3-Major | SSL handshake delay when SSL mirroring enabled or mirrored connection fails to recover after failover. |
472571-8 | 3-Major | Memory leak with multiple client SSL profiles. |
464923 | 3-Major | Insufficient error information when netHSM is used without proper licensing |
464801 | 3-Major | Intermittent tmm core |
462754 | 3-Major | SSL connection may not survive multiple failovers or delay response |
423392 | 3-Major | tcl_platform is no longer in the static:: namespace |
415608 | 3-Major | ICMP messages can be throttled without log message |
409340 | 3-Major | https/ssl monitor closes immediately (rather than awaiting remote close-notify) |
408599 | 3-Major | The iRule node command does not function as expected when invoked from the LB_SELECTED event. |
405898 | 3-Major | If the OSPF derived MTU is different from the path MTU, OSPF may not function as expected |
371164 | 3-Major | BIG-IP sends ND probes for all masquerading MAC addresses on all VLANs, so MAC might associated with multiple VLANs. |
364285 | 3-Major | Improve the documentation of the HTTP::respond command |
360047 | 3-Major | RAM Cache Ignores All but Last Cache-Control Header in OWS Response |
348000 | 3-Major | HTTP response status 408 request timeout results in error being logged. |
225634 | 3-Major | The rate class feature does not honor the Burst Size setting. |
627246 | 4-Minor | TMM memory leak when ASM policy configured on virtual |
602159 | 4-Minor | The field "Maximum" connections of websocket and http2 profile statistics show different values between tmsh and GUI |
598860 | 4-Minor | IP::addr iRule with an IPv6 address and netmask fails to return an IPv4 address |
597385 | 4-Minor | Support for the Maximum Fragment Length TLS extension |
592707 | 4-Minor | Validation against routes where the network route-domain does not match VLAN route-domain |
589039 | 4-Minor | Clearing masquerade MAC results in unexpected link-local self IPs. |
587915 | 4-Minor | Improved SMTPS reset cause codes |
587676 | 4-Minor | SMB monitor fails due to internal configuration issue |
584772-3 | 4-Minor | ssldump may crash when decrypting bad records |
583943 | 4-Minor | Forward proxy does not work when netHSM is configured on TMM interfaces |
577846-1 | 4-Minor | NPN configuration options are obsolete |
574020 | 4-Minor | Safenet HSM installation script fails to install successfully if partition password contains special metacharacters (!#{}') |
572015 | 4-Minor | HTTP Class profile is upgraded to a case-insensitive policy★ |
567665 | 4-Minor | SNMP TMM memory stats need to be presented per TMM process |
559110 | 4-Minor | Luna FIPS request errors are logged as the same generic error. |
544033 | 4-Minor | Fragmented ICMP Echo to Virtual Address may not receive response |
530877 | 4-Minor | TCP profile option Verified Accept might cause iRule processing to run twice in very specific circumstances. |
488876 | 4-Minor | SSL persistence uses noticeably more memory |
455560 | 4-Minor | HTTP filter waits until part of the body is received before sending small headers |
433323 | 4-Minor | Ramcache handling of Cache-Control: no-cache directive in Response |
222034 | 4-Minor | HTTP::respond in LB_FAILED with large header/body might result in truncated response |
558053-1 | 5-Cosmetic | Pool's 'active_member_cnt' attribute may not be updated as expected. |
Performance Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
621115 | 2-Critical | IP/IPv6 TTL/hoplimit may not be preserved for host traffic |
588879 | 2-Critical | apmd crash under rare conditions with LDAP in BIGIP 12.0 and beyond |
617307 | 3-Major | FastL4 with full PVA acceleration: Average connections per second decreased 5-7% since v12.1.1 on i5800 platforms |
510631 | 3-Major | B4450 L4 No ePVA or L7 throughput lower than expected |
Global Traffic Manager Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
603598 | 2-Critical | big3d memory under extreme load conditions |
591124 | 2-Critical | gtmd core while adding a new GTM to an existing sync group. |
587656 | 2-Critical | GTM auto discovery problem with EHF for ID574052 |
587617 | 2-Critical | While adding GTM server, failure to configure new IP on existing server leads to gtmd core |
629530-1 | 3-Major | Under certain conditions, monitors do not time out. |
626141 | 3-Major | DNSX Performance Graphs are not displaying Requests/sec" |
621374 | 3-Major | "abbrev" argument in "whereis" iRule returns nothing |
615338-1 | 3-Major | The value returned by "matchregion" in an iRule is inconsistent in some cases. |
613576 | 3-Major | QOS load balancing links display as gray |
613045-6 | 3-Major | Interaction between GTM and 10.x LTM results in some virtual servers marked down |
602300 | 3-Major | Zone Runner entries cannot be modified when sys DNS starts with IPv6 address |
601180 | 3-Major | Link Controller base license does not allow DNS namespace iRule commands.★ |
595293 | 3-Major | Deleting GTM links could cause gtm_add to fail on new devices. |
589256 | 3-Major | DNSSEC NSEC3 records with different type bitmap for same name. |
588289 | 3-Major | GTM is Re-ordering pools when adding pool including order designation |
584623 | 3-Major | Response to -list iRules command gets truncated when dealing with MX type wide IP |
574052 | 3-Major | GTM autoconf can cause high CPU usage for gtmd |
487144 | 3-Major | tmm intermittently reports that it cannot find FIPS key |
442226 | 3-Major | Link Controller fails to auto-create a self-server |
370131-5 | 3-Major | Loading UCS with low GTM Autoconf Delay drops pool Members from config |
364774-1 | 3-Major | TMSH required for creating redundant-bigip server object for Link Controller |
425108 | 4-Minor | Tab completion in the tmsh might not list all transparent monitors |
Application Security Manager Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
636397 | 2-Critical | bd cores when persistent storage configuration and under some memory conditions. |
634001 | 2-Critical | ASM restarts after deleting a VS that has an ASM security policy assigned to it |
627117 | 2-Critical | crash with wrong ceritifcate in WSS |
608509 | 2-Critical | Policy learning is slow under high load |
601378 | 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 |
600357 | 2-Critical | bd crash when asm policy is removed from virtual during specific configuration change |
599582 | 2-Critical | BD keep-alive self crashes due to lack of IO or CPU resources |
591113 | 2-Critical | CSRF injection leading to blank page |
587629 | 2-Critical | IP exceptions may have issues with route domain |
585352 | 2-Critical | bruteForce record selfLink gets corrupted by change to brute force settings in GUI |
585120 | 2-Critical | Memory leak in bd under rare scenario |
585054 | 2-Critical | BIG-IP imports delay violations incorrectly, causing wrong policy enforcement |
584840 | 2-Critical | The "Maximum Line Length" violation is not detected in the last line of a websocket frame. |
584082 | 2-Critical | BD daemon crashes unexpectedly |
581991 | 2-Critical | Logging filter for remote loggers doesn't work correctly with more than one logging profile |
575133 | 2-Critical | asm_config_server_rpc_handler_async.pl SIGSEGV and core |
631737 | 3-Major | ArcSight cs4 (attack_type) is N/A for certain HTTP Compliance sub-violations |
631444 | 3-Major | Bot Name for ASM Search Engines is case sensitive |
630929 | 3-Major | Attack signature exception list upload times-out and fails |
627360 | 3-Major | Upgrade fails with "DBD::mysql::db do failed: Too many partitions (including subpartitions) were defined" errors in ASM log★ |
625832 | 3-Major | A false positive modified domain cookie violation |
623514 | 3-Major | Duplicate ASM Policies Appear in GUI |
622913 | 3-Major | Audit Log filled with constant change messages |
622386 | 3-Major | Internet Explorer getting blocked when Web Scraping and Proactive Bot Defense are both enabled |
621524 | 3-Major | Processing Timeout When Viewing a Request with 300+ Violations |
620635 | 3-Major | Request having upper case JSON login parameter is not detected as a failed login attempt |
618771 | 3-Major | Some Social Security Numbers are not being masked |
617391 | 3-Major | Device sync constantly showing Changes Pending when using custom ASM Search Engines |
614441 | 3-Major | False Positive for illegal method (GET) |
613396 | 3-Major | Invalid XML Policy Exported for Policies with Metachar Overrides on Websocket URLs |
611151 | 3-Major | An upper case JSON sensitive parameter is not masked when ASM policy is case-insensitive |
609499 | 3-Major | Compiled signature collections use more memory than prior versions |
609496 | 3-Major | Improved diagnostics in BD config update (bd_agent) added |
605616 | 3-Major | Creating 256 Fundamental Security policies will result in an out of memory error |
604923 | 3-Major | REST id for Signatures change after update |
604893 | 3-Major | ComplexType child elements in XML schema cannot have different values set in "fixed" attribute |
604612 | 3-Major | Modified ASM cookie violation happens after upgrade to 12.1.x★ |
603945 | 3-Major | BD config update should be considered as config addition in case of update failure |
603479 | 3-Major | "ASM starting" while it's already running, causing the restart of all ASM daemons |
602691 | 3-Major | Regular expression in XML schema pattern validation fails (libxml bug) |
602221 | 3-Major | Wrong parsing of redirect Domain |
600174 | 3-Major | Wildcard "*" redirection domain cannot be deleted if list is scrollable |
599655 | 3-Major | When ramcache is configured with CPM, the ASM blocking page will get cached |
595946 | 3-Major | Expired Timestamp violation is triggered too often |
593681 | 3-Major | CSRF doesn't look correctly into relative urls in the location header |
593360 | 3-Major | repeated failures on scheduled Signature Update (ASU) |
592504 | 3-Major | False positive illegal length violation can appear |
590851 | 3-Major | "never log" IPs are still reported to AVR |
589606 | 3-Major | CSRF enabled within iframe request causes to unpredictable behavior on a website. |
588087 | 3-Major | Attack prevention isn't escalating under some conditions in session opening mitigation |
588049 | 3-Major | Improve detection of browser capabilities |
585946 | 3-Major | ASM Disallowed Geolocations without a full country name known to BIG-IP are lost on update. |
584642 | 3-Major | Apply Policy Failure |
584103 | 3-Major | FPS periodic updates (cron) write errors to log |
583686 | 3-Major | High ASCII meta-characters can be disallowed on UTF-8 policy via XML import |
583629 | 3-Major | ASM subsystem error appears in asm log after changing XML/JSON profile for parameter |
582683 | 3-Major | xpath parser doesn't reset a namespace hash value between each and every scan |
582133 | 3-Major | Policy builder doesn't enable staging after policy change on "*" entities (file types, urls, etc.) |
581406 | 3-Major | SQL Error on Peer Device After Receiving ASM Sync in a Device Group |
581315 | 3-Major | Selenium detection not blocked |
580168 | 3-Major | Information missing from ASM event logs after a switchboot and switchboot back |
579917 | 3-Major | User-defined signature set cannot be created/updated with Signature Type = "All" |
579495 | 3-Major | Error when loading Upgrade UCS★ |
578399 | 3-Major | Adding an option for negative validation of occurence of a string in the header |
576619 | 3-Major | Online help in the GUI missing details in description of "Bad multipart parameters parsing" HTTP validation |
576591 | 3-Major | Support for some future credit card number ranges |
575298 | 3-Major | No violation details for illegal metachar violation when shift-jis is the web app language |
564324 | 3-Major | ASM scripts can break applications |
540928 | 3-Major | Memory leak due to unnecessary logging profile configuration updates. |
522040 | 3-Major | Individual attack signature can't be disabled on a specific header |
521370 | 3-Major | Auto-Detect Language policy has disallowed high ASCII meta-characters even after encoding is set to UTF-8 |
521204 | 3-Major | Include default values in XML Policy Export |
518201 | 3-Major | ASM policy creation fails with after upgrading |
428928 | 3-Major | Policy with auto-detect encoding is not configured on target of device group sync |
392121 | 3-Major | TMSH Command to retrieve the memory consumption of the bd process |
618693 | 4-Minor | Web Scraping session_opening_anomaly reports the wrong route domain for the source IP |
607001 | 4-Minor | ASM policy diff issue for HTTP method HEAD |
603071 | 4-Minor | XHTML validation fails on obfuscated JavaScript |
574214 | 4-Minor | Content Based Routing daemon (cbrd) logging control |
572885 | 4-Minor | Policy automatic learning mode changes to manual after failover |
542817 | 4-Minor | Specific numbers that are not credit card numbers are being masked as such |
249484 | 4-Minor | Blocking icon does not appear on response violation |
Application Visibility and Reporting Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
602654 | 2-Critical | TMM crash when using AVR lookups |
602434 | 2-Critical | Tmm crash with compressed response |
601536 | 2-Critical | Analytics load error stops load of configuration★ |
596674 | 2-Critical | High memory usage when using CS features with gzip HTML responses. |
582629 | 2-Critical | User Sessions lookups are not cleared, session stats show marked as invalid |
575170 | 2-Critical | Analytics reports may not identify virtual servers correctly |
630103 | 3-Major | AVR statistics is not saved during the upgrade process |
618944 | 3-Major | AVR statistic is not save during the upgrade process |
605414 | 3-Major | Mysqld and bcm56xxd seem to run at 100% on vCMP host. |
605010 | 3-Major | Thrift::TException error |
601035-1 | 3-Major | TCP-Analytics can fail to collect all the activity |
600634 | 3-Major | Schedule-reports can break the upgrade process★ |
590074 | 3-Major | Wrong value for TCP connections closed measure |
582029-3 | 3-Major | AVR might report incorrect statistics when used together with other modules. |
560114 | 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 | Description |
633349-2 | 2-Critical | localdbmgr hangs and eventually crashes |
632798 | 2-Critical | Double-free may occur if Access initialization fails |
622244 | 2-Critical | Edge client can fail to upgrade when always connected is selected |
621371 | 2-Critical | Output Errors in APM Event Log |
618324 | 2-Critical | Unknown/Undefined OPSWAT ID show up as 'Any' in APM Visual Policy Editor |
617310 | 2-Critical | Edge client can fail to upgrade when Always Connected is selected★ |
612129 | 2-Critical | tmm crash (SIGABRT) when creating url filter with large number of categories |
608408 | 2-Critical | TMM may restart if SSO plugin configuration initialization fails due to internal error in tmconf library |
593078 | 2-Critical | CATEGORY::filetype command may cause tmm to crash and restart |
592868 | 2-Critical | Rewrite may crash processing HTML tag with HTML entity in attribute value |
591117 | 2-Critical | APM ACL construction may cause TMM to core if TMM is out of memory |
588686-2 | 2-Critical | High-speed logging to remote logging node stops sending logs after all logging nodes go down |
585442 | 2-Critical | Provisioning APM to "none" creates a core file |
582440 | 2-Critical | Linux client does not restore route to the default GW on Ubuntu 15.10 |
581299-2 | 2-Critical | DNSRelay Proxy re-transmits DNS requests indefinitely every second if NA DNS servers do not respond |
580817 | 2-Critical | Edge Client may crash after upgrade★ |
580059-2 | 2-Critical | DNS Relay proxy component of edge client on windows consumes lot of CPU cycles |
579559 | 2-Critical | DTLS Networks Access may not work with some hardware platforms with Nitrox hardware acceleration |
572563-2 | 2-Critical | PWS session does not launch on Internet Explorer |
569563-1 | 2-Critical | Sockets resource leak after loading complex policy |
569306 | 2-Critical | Edge client does not use logon credentials even when "Reuse Windows Logon Credentials" is selected |
568576 | 2-Critical | Version Check fails when upgrading across a major version boundary★ |
565056 | 2-Critical | Fail to update VPN correctly for non-admin user. |
555272 | 2-Critical | Endpoint Security client components (OPSWAT, EPSEC) may fail to upgrade★ |
450136 | 2-Critical | Occasionally customers see chunk boundaries as part of HTTP response |
433242 | 2-Critical | SAML SLO does not work if one of SLO Request URL, SLO Response URL not configured |
634125 | 3-Major | Access Profile with incorrect topology may be imported in some cases. |
632386 | 3-Major | EdgeClient cannot establish iClient control connection to BIG-IP if another control connection exists |
629803 | 3-Major | "HTTP 401 Response" agent reuses incorrect credentials |
629801 | 3-Major | Access policy is applied automatically on target device after policy sync, when there is a also a FODG in the trust domain. |
628790 | 3-Major | Adding new item in VPE might end up with error |
628712 | 3-Major | Advanced customization doesn't work for Profiles in non-common partition with . (period) with name |
628687 | 3-Major | Edge Client reconnection issues with captive portal |
628685 | 3-Major | Edge Client shows several security warnings after roaming to a network with Captive Portal |
627972 | 3-Major | Unable to save advanced customization when using Exchange iApp |
627384 | 3-Major | eamtest tool fails with Segmentation fault after initialization. |
625474 | 3-Major | POST request body is not saved in session variable by access when request is sent using edge client |
625376 | 3-Major | In some cases, download of PAC file by edge client may fail |
625159 | 3-Major | Policy sync status not shown on standby device in HA case |
623562 | 3-Major | Large POSTs rejected after policy already completed |
623173 | 3-Major | unused error messages for SecurID |
622790 | 3-Major | EdgeClient disconnect may take a lot of time when machine is moved to network with no connectivity to BIG-IP |
621447 | 3-Major | In some rare cases, VDI may crash |
621210 | 3-Major | Policy sync shows as aborted even if it is completed |
621202 | 3-Major | Portal Access: document.write() with very long string as argument may be handled incorrectly. |
621126 | 3-Major | Import of config with saml idp connector with reuse causes certificate not found error |
620829 | 3-Major | Portal Access / JavaScript code which uses reserved keywords for field names in literal object definition may not work correctly |
620801 | 3-Major | Access Policy is not able to check device posture for Android 7 devices |
620614-1 | 3-Major | Citrix PNAgent replacement mode: iOS Citrix receiver fails to add new store account |
619879 | 3-Major | HTTP iRule commands could lead to WEBSSO plugin being invoked |
619811 | 3-Major | Machine Cert OCSP check fails with multiple Issuer CA |
619486 | 3-Major | Scripts on rewritten pages could fail with JavaScript exception if application code modifies window.self |
619473 | 3-Major | Browser may hang at APM session logout |
619250 | 3-Major | Returning to main menu from "RSS Feed" breaks ribbon |
618957 | 3-Major | Certificate objects are not properly imported from external SAML SP metadata when metadata contains both signing and encryption certificates |
618170 | 3-Major | Some URL unwrapping functions can behave bad |
617629 | 3-Major | Same report is downloaded repeatedly after user clicks on "export csv" and then click on another tab |
617187 | 3-Major | APM CustomDialer can't connect to APM server with invalid/untrusted SSL certificate |
617063 | 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 | 3-Major | SWG with Response Analytics agent in a Per-Request policy fails with some URLs |
616838-2 | 3-Major | Citrix Remote desktop resource custom parameter name does not accept hyphen character |
615407 | 3-Major | EAM core during shutdown |
615254 | 3-Major | Network Access Launch Application item fails to launch in some cases |
614891 | 3-Major | Routing table doesn't get updated when EDGE client roams among wireless networks |
614072 | 3-Major | Source Address Translation to SNAT pool breaks SWG explicit use case for IP based session. |
613613-3 | 3-Major | Incorrect handling of form that contains a tag with id=action |
612419 | 3-Major | APM 11.4.1 HF10 - suspected memory leak (umem_alloc_32/network access (variable)) |
611922 | 3-Major | Policy sync fails with policy that includes custom CA Bundle. |
611669 | 3-Major | Mac Edge Client customization is not applied on macOS 10.12 Sierra |
611485 | 3-Major | APM AAA RADIUS server address cannot be a multicast IPv6 address.★ |
611469 | 3-Major | Traffic disrupted when malformed, signed SAML authentication request from an authenticated user is sent via SP connector |
611325 | 3-Major | VPE edit action issues with Firefox if policy is in read only mode. |
611240 | 3-Major | Import of config with securid might fail |
610961 | 3-Major | pre-define default list of required attributes for AD Query |
610224 | 3-Major | APM client may fetch expired certificate when a valid and an expired certificate co-exist |
610180 | 3-Major | SAML Single Logout is misconfigured can cause a minor memory leak in SSO plugin. |
609625 | 3-Major | Portal Access: RSS XML files may contain non-rewritten URLs |
608941 | 3-Major | AAA RADIUS system authentication fails on IPv6 network |
608427 | 3-Major | LocalDB auth agent is not available for APM based system auth |
607886 | 3-Major | Cannot delete partition when APM Sandbox configuration is present |
606831 | 3-Major | Multidomain SSO slave virtual cannot be reached |
606426 | 3-Major | coapi error on the shell, when user clicks on session in the manage sessions page |
606416 | 3-Major | apm client-packaging object missing in existing partitions after provisioning APM |
606101 | 3-Major | Support launching multiple Horizon View client instances from APM webtop |
605438 | 3-Major | Manager role should be allowed to create 'Custom Categories' |
604768 | 3-Major | ACCESS::session iRules did not work with IP-based sessions |
604767 | 3-Major | Importing SAML IdP's metadata on BIG-IP as SP may result in not complete configuration of IdP connector object. |
603679 | 3-Major | Edge client does not log configuration parameters recieved from server |
603293 | 3-Major | Incorrect handling of L4 Dynamic ACL when it is processed together with L7 ACLs |
603081 | 3-Major | EdgeClient now supports hosts whitelisting in locked mode |
602887 | 3-Major | User-friendly message regarding SSL connection errors via Portal Access. |
602154 | 3-Major | Multidomain SSO loses POST data because of HTTP 302 |
601919 | 3-Major | Custom categories and custom url filter assignment must be specific to partition instead of global lookup |
601905 | 3-Major | POST requests may not be forwarded to backend server when EAM plugin is enabled on the virtual server |
601420 | 3-Major | Possible SAML authentication loop with IE and multi-domain SSO. |
600811 | 3-Major | CATEGORY::lookup command change in behaviour★ |
600119 | 3-Major | DNS name resolution for servers outside of Network Access Name Split scope can be slow in some conditions |
600069 | 3-Major | Portal Access: Requests handled incorrectly |
600024 | 3-Major | Managed Endpoint Notification and Managed Endpoint Status agents are only available for type "All" profiles |
599220 | 3-Major | AD/LDAP groupmapping have no webtop-section assign |
598981 | 3-Major | APM ACL does not get enforced all the time under certain conditions |
598211 | 3-Major | Citrix Android Receiver 3.9 does not work through APM in StoreFront integration mode. |
597431 | 3-Major | VPN establishment may fail when computer wakes up from sleep |
597421 | 3-Major | DNS server setting configured on APM may not take effect on Linux |
597214 | 3-Major | Portal Access / JavaScript code which uses reserved keywords for field names in literal object definition may not work correctly |
596336 | 3-Major | SSO object is not assigned to Access Profile on usage of Wizard |
596116 | 3-Major | LDAP Query does not resolve group membership, when required attribute(s) specified |
596083 | 3-Major | Error running custom APM Reports with "session creation time" on Viprion Platform |
595819 | 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 | 3-Major | Edge client may show a windows displaying plain text in some cases |
595227 | 3-Major | SWG Custom Category: unable to have a URL in multiple custom categories |
594288 | 3-Major | Access profile configured with SWG Transparent results in memory leak. |
592591 | 3-Major | Deleting access profile prompts for apply access policy for other untouched access profiles |
592414 | 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 | 3-Major | encryption_key in access config is NULL in whitelist |
591590 | 3-Major | APM policy sync results are not persisted on target devices |
591268 | 3-Major | VS hostname is not resolvable when DNS Relay proxy is installed and running under certain conditions |
591246 | 3-Major | Unable to launch View HTML5 connections in non-zero route domain virtual servers |
590820 | 3-Major | Applications that use appendChild() or similar JavaScript functions to build UI might experience slow performance in Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. |
590734 | 3-Major | Configuration of Timeout in AAA LDAP/AD Servers |
590601 | 3-Major | BIG-IP as SAML SP does not redirect users to original request URI after authentication is completed |
590428 | 3-Major | The "ACCESS::session create" iRule command does not work |
590345 | 3-Major | ACCESS policy running iRule event agent intermittently hangs |
588888 | 3-Major | Empty URI rewriting is not done as required by browser. |
588854 | 3-Major | Windows integrated logon client take long time to log on in some case |
587716 | 3-Major | Webtop doesn't notify user about ended session when F5 VPN application is used |
587493 | 3-Major | MAC Edge client selects wrong network access resource if webtop contains multiple resources |
587419 | 3-Major | TMM may restart when SAML SLO is performed after APM session is closed |
586758 | 3-Major | View HTML5 client doesn't work when APM is set to offload SSL from VCS |
586718 | 3-Major | Session variable substitutions are logged |
586170 | 3-Major | RADIUS Auth Challenge message with Non-ASCII characters in it is rendered to users in hex-encoded form |
586006 | 3-Major | Failed to retrieve CRLDP list from client certificate if DirName type is present |
585905 | 3-Major | Citrix Storefront integration mode with pass-through authentication fails |
585562 | 3-Major | VMware View HTML5 client shipped with Horizon 7 does not work through BIG-IP APM in Chrome/Safari |
584914 | 3-Major | Unsupported customization fields are shown for VMware View Logon Page policy agent |
584716 | 3-Major | SAML XML Canonicalization on BIG-IP as IdP may return invalid value if AuthnRequest is formed in a special way |
584582 | 3-Major | JavaScript: 'baseURI' property may be handled incorrectly |
583627 | 3-Major | Portal Access code does not check if methods of XMLHttpRequest Javascript object are redefined by application |
583113 | 3-Major | NTLM Auth cannot be disabled in HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST event |
582752 | 3-Major | Macrocall could be topologically not connected with the rest of policy.★ |
582526 | 3-Major | Unable to display and edit huge policies (more than 4000 elements) |
581983 | 3-Major | Incorreect PMTU discovery causes unstable VPN tunnel on Linux and MAC |
581834 | 3-Major | Firefox signed plugin for VPN, Endpoint Check, etc |
580893 | 3-Major | Support for Single FQDN usage with Citrix Storefront Integration mode |
580567 | 3-Major | LDAP Query agent failed to resolve nested group membership |
580565 | 3-Major | Creating and immediately deleting an Access policy can cause APMD to crash |
580512 | 3-Major | Sometimes launching RemoteApps from APM webtop fails after logout/login |
580421 | 3-Major | Edge Client may not register DLLs correctly |
580403 | 3-Major | SNMP query shows stats for deleted access profiles |
579820 | 3-Major | Edge Client creates duplicate server list if cp has no alias |
579227 | 3-Major | GUI does not display the field for entering port number for pool members in 'use pool' mode for CRLDP AAA server configuration screen |
578455 | 3-Major | Priority group value of the AAA server pool members changed on change of monitor |
578413 | 3-Major | Missing reference to customization-group from connectivity profile if created via portal access wizard |
577939 | 3-Major | DNS suffixes on user's machine may not be restored correctly in some cases |
577906 | 3-Major | Safari 9 and Safari 10 don't use autoconfig script from NA on OSX 10.11 and 10.12 if pac file is downloaded via tunnel |
577495 | 3-Major | APM Sandbox configuration is missing if a partition was created before APM was provisioned |
576748 | 3-Major | Default Session Summary reports are not present for new users with report access. |
576069 | 3-Major | Rewrite can crash in some rare corner cases |
575444 | 3-Major | Wininfo agent incorrectly reports OS version on Windows 10 in some cases |
575292 | 3-Major | DNS Relay proxy service does not respond to SCM commands in timely manner |
574578 | 3-Major | failed to load configuration, when cache_cleanup property is defined for AAA AD/LDAP server |
574435 | 3-Major | BIG-IP as a SAML Service Provider may fail to resolve Artifact for Assertion when route domains are configured |
574264 | 3-Major | Hundreds of images are taking hours to import |
573643 | 3-Major | flash.utils.Proxy functionality is not negotiated |
573581 | 3-Major | DNS Search suffix are not restored properly in some cases after VPN establishment |
572900 | 3-Major | Two-factor auth not supported in step-up auth |
572893 | 3-Major | error "The modem (or other connecting device) is already in use or is not configured properly" |
572887 | 3-Major | DNS doesn't work properly on Ubuntu 15.10 when using f5fpc CLI client |
572825 | 3-Major | write to sessiondb fails for localdb password reset |
572558 | 3-Major | Internet Explorer: incorrect handling of document.write() to closed document |
572420 | 3-Major | Session ID is not shown for some messages in System-> Logs-> Access Policy |
571410 | 3-Major | LocalDB Auth in subroutines |
571408 | 3-Major | Step-Up Auth cannot validate SSL certificate revocations |
570217 | 3-Major | BIG-IP APM now uses Airwatch v2 API to retreive device posture information |
570064 | 3-Major | IE gives a security warning asking: "Do you want to run ... InstallerControll.cab" |
569542 | 3-Major | After upgrade, user cannot upload APM Sandbox hosted-content file in a partition existing before upgrade★ |
569309 | 3-Major | Clientside HTML parser does not recognize HTML event attributes without value |
569278 | 3-Major | Request to /my.policy.php3 will return 302 redirect to /vdesk/webtop.eui?webtop=... with rotated MRHSession. |
569255 | 3-Major | Network Access incorrectly manipulates routing table when second adapter being connected if "Allow Local subnet access' is set to ON |
568445 | 3-Major | User cannot perform endpoint check or launch VPN from Firefox on Windows 10 |
568418 | 3-Major | Linux CLI client does not follow redirect response coming from APM |
567707 | 3-Major | Edge client uninstaller on windows leaves some client components on user's machine |
567199 | 3-Major | NLA-awareness works incorrectly in "Always Connected Mode" |
566998 | 3-Major | Edge client upgrade fails if client was configured in locked mode★ |
566947 | 3-Major | Errors in IMsTscAxEvents::OnDisconnected doesn't have a text description |
566908-1 | 3-Major | Webserver listening on local Wifi or ethernet IP cannot be accessed after VPN with proxy.pac file |
566600 | 3-Major | Export button in EDGE client now creates a CTU report |
565686 | 3-Major | Route domain behavior is inconsistent |
565519 | 3-Major | URL filter policy enforcement interprets "recommend to scan" as "uncategorized" all the time |
565347 | 3-Major | Rewrite engine behaves improperly in case of AS2 SWF with a badly formatted 'push' instruction |
564521 | 3-Major | JavaScript passed to ExternalInterface.call() may be erroneously unescaped |
564262 | 3-Major | Network Access does not work if DNS cannot be resolved on client and PAC file contains DNS resolution code |
564253 | 3-Major | Firefox signed plugin for VPN, Endpoint Check, etc |
563135 | 3-Major | SWG Explicit Proxy uses incorrect port after a 407 Authentication Attempt |
562636 | 3-Major | Possible memory exhaustion in access end-user interface pages for transparent proxy/SWG cases. |
562509 | 3-Major | Incorrect form action path may be used if it is changed inside 'onsubmit' event handler |
560601 | 3-Major | HTML5 File API and MediaSource URLs are blocked in Portal Access |
559402 | 3-Major | Client initiated form based SSO fails when username and password not replaced correctly while posting the form |
559334-2 | 3-Major | Network Access fails on Windows platform |
558870 | 3-Major | Protected workspace does not work correctly with third party products |
558283 | 3-Major | Show template javascript on Client initiated SSO v2 |
556092 | 3-Major | Password copying in Variable Assign Agent may fail if user decides not to change password |
553063 | 3-Major | Epsec version rolls back to previous version on a reboot |
551803 | 3-Major | [Portal Access] Links targeting new window must not be rewritten as script |
551795 | 3-Major | Portal Access: corrections to CORS support for XMLHttpRequest |
551225 | 3-Major | SAML IdP requests may fail when Sharepoint is opened through Portal Access in the same browser |
549996 | 3-Major | VPN connection cannot be established from browser on MAC in some cases |
547332 | 3-Major | Portal access should send request url with "/" in path to backend |
546489 | 3-Major | VMware View USB redirection stops working after client reconnect |
543344 | 3-Major | ACCESS iRule commands do not work reliably in HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST event |
541363-1 | 3-Major | Component installation appears hung if wrong password is entered |
534187 | 3-Major | Passphrase protected signing keys are not supported by SAML IDP/SP |
534057 | 3-Major | [JavaPatcher] Java Applet class methods not properly implemented |
528598 | 3-Major | SharePoint ActiveX wrappers should check object type before rewriting URL |
525429-9 | 3-Major | DTLS renegotiation sequence number compatibility |
516736 | 3-Major | URLs with backslashes in the path may not be handled correctly in Portal Access |
516711 | 3-Major | Portal Access: JavaScript in Shift-JIS encoding may be handled incorrectly |
513480 | 3-Major | ldap query fails when user is assigned to newly created group and that group is set as primary group |
505925 | 3-Major | Show internal Citrix XML Broker error (MPSError/BrowserError) in the logs and to the user on APM Webtop |
503847 | 3-Major | Support Citrix HTML5 client bundle in non-default partition |
503842 | 3-Major | MS WebService html component doesn't work after rewriting |
501505 | 3-Major | [Portal Access] Rewrite helpers do not work with documents created with createHTMLDocument() call |
500901 | 3-Major | Manager Role inconsistency between GUI and TMSH |
488326 | 3-Major | SWG database download via proxy |
483957 | 3-Major | Configure the client of choice to be launched from APM webtop |
483570 | 3-Major | TMM/APMD fail to communicate when handling a large amount of data under high load conditions. |
482976 | 3-Major | AppTunnel fails with two resources one with protocol type and other with port range |
478657 | 3-Major | HTTP URLs with embedded credentials are not working in Portal Access |
476644 | 3-Major | User logged in as Auditor can't view SAML IdP configuration data; Edit button greyed out. |
475715 | 3-Major | Plugin based endpoint checking clients do not work with Chrome and Firefox |
475403-5 | 3-Major | Tunnel reconnect with v2.02 does not occur |
470231 | 3-Major | HTML5 WebSocket API is not supported in Portal Access |
468130 | 3-Major | When Kerberos authentication is used with RBA enabled, the first POST request sent to the BIG-IP system could be lost under certain conditions. |
455975 | 3-Major | Separate MIBS needed for tracking Access Sessions and Connectivity Sessions |
447689 | 3-Major | [Portal Access] Version disclosure |
447565 | 3-Major | Renewing machine-account password does not update the serviceId for associated ntlm-auth. |
441525 | 3-Major | Support RDP connections to arbitrary servers from APM Webtop |
438135 | 3-Major | APM does not support multimon and monitors custom properties for RDP resources |
434773 | 3-Major | Oracle Access Manager 'Clear local Config Cache' button deletes incorrect config.cache file |
431764 | 3-Major | Full webtop title is not localized |
402793-19 | 3-Major | APM Network Accces tunnel slows down and loses data in secure renegotiation on Linux and Mac clients |
399857 | 3-Major | Access Policy Export / Import fails when folders are used★ |
389881 | 3-Major | Flash items on webpage do not load correctly through APM portal |
389484 | 3-Major | OAM reporting Access Server down with JDK version 1.6.0_27 or later |
386517 | 3-Major | Multidomain SSO requires a default pool be configured |
384405 | 3-Major | web-acceleration profile not working with access profile |
369407 | 3-Major | Access policy objects are created inconsistently depending on whether created using wizard or manually. |
367670 | 3-Major | APM allows only limited resources to be added to webtop |
366149 | 3-Major | ACL support for VPN tunnels |
238444 | 3-Major | An L4 ACL has no effect when a layered virtual server is used. |
620922 | 4-Minor | Online help for Network Access needs update |
618404 | 4-Minor | Access Profile copying might end up in invalid way if series of names. |
617544 | 4-Minor | References to DTLS may show up in client logs even when DTLS is disabled |
612758 | 4-Minor | Exception within function F5_Inflate_innerHTML. |
611968 | 4-Minor | JavaScript Active content at an HTML page browsed by IE8 with significant amount of links (>1000) can run very slow |
610594 | 4-Minor | Authorization grant using auth code fails with IE11 when OAuth AS clientssl profile is using untrusted certificate |
608453 | 4-Minor | Shrink/Expand imgs of Webtop Section is customizable |
606257 | 4-Minor | TCP FIN sent with Connection: Keep-Alive header for webtop page resources |
599526 | 4-Minor | SWG redirect omits the port |
598419 | 4-Minor | Edge client requests include ID |
597331 | 4-Minor | Portal Access: HTML 'PARAM' tag cannot be handled correctly by Internet Explorer in IE5.5, IE7, or IE8 emulation modes. |
596330 | 4-Minor | Portal Access do not preserve tag order in popup window's document |
594388 | 4-Minor | Separate signature validation and encryption certificates used by SAML IdP |
592352 | 4-Minor | Launching RDP resources of "Native" type requires downloading .rdp files which are not cleaned automatically |
584373 | 4-Minor | AD/LDAP resource group mapping table controls are not accessible sometimes |
583600 | 4-Minor | Portal Access could send to backend application wrong URL query separator |
581765 | 4-Minor | Tooltip displayed in tray icon of Edge Client does not show text correctly in some cases |
581459 | 4-Minor | F5_Invoke_replace() should accept more than 2 arguments |
580429 | 4-Minor | CTU does not show second Class ID for InstallerControll.dll |
578848 | 4-Minor | APM Webtop displays "Applications and Links" number is off by 1 |
574664 | 4-Minor | 'ACCESS::session exists' returns TCL error if there is no APM session associated with connflow |
574079 | 4-Minor | Network access webtop does not prompt the user if user closes browser window |
573611 | 4-Minor | Erroneous error message Access encountered error: ERR_NOT_FOUND may appear in APM logs |
572543 | 4-Minor | User is prompted to install components repeatedly after client components are updated. |
561892 | 4-Minor | kerberos cache is not cleared when Administrator password is changed in AAA AD Server |
557411 | 4-Minor | Full Webtop resources appear overlapping in IE11 compatibility mode |
555102 | 4-Minor | Disk Serial number reported with incorrect formatting |
544148 | 4-Minor | document.parentWindow value should be preserved |
541156 | 4-Minor | Network Access clients experience delays when resolving a host |
538770 | 4-Minor | Save Password checkbox setting is not remembered on Mac Edge Client. |
535780 | 4-Minor | Microsoft Edge browser is not supported |
533956 | 4-Minor | Portal Access: Space-like characters in EUC character sets may be handled incorrectly. |
514742 | 4-Minor | OCSP Responder URL is case sensitive, scheme part is required |
495830-1 | 4-Minor | UI Breadcrumb text does not always match the menu or tab selected |
470612 | 4-Minor | ACCESS logs non-fatal snapshot errors |
WebAccelerator Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
630661 | 3-Major | WAM may leak memory when a WAM policy node has multiple variation header rules |
621284 | 3-Major | Incorrect TMSH help text for the 'max-response' RAMCACHE attribute |
596569 | 3-Major | Memory leak on Central device in Symmetric deployment |
Wan Optimization Manager Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
619757 | 2-Critical | iSession causes routing entry to be prematurely freed |
593597 | 3-Major | iSession can't connect over default gateway pool |
505031 | 3-Major | wom_verify_config is slow when there are a large number of virtuals configured |
499124 | 4-Minor | wom_verify_config produces unneccesarily elevated messages in ltm log |
Service Provider Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
629663-3 | 2-Critical | CGNAT SIP ALG will drop SIP INVITE |
625542-3 | 2-Critical | SIP ALG with Translation fails for REGISTER refresh. |
624023 | 2-Critical | TMM cores in iRule when accessing a SIP header that has no value |
613297 | 2-Critical | Default generic message routing profile settings may core |
612135 | 2-Critical | Virtual with GenericMessage profile without MessageRouter profile will core when receiving traffic |
603397 | 2-Critical | tmm core on MRF when routing via MR::message route iRule command using a non-existant transport-config |
596631 | 2-Critical | SIP MRF: Wrong listener may be deleted during media deny-listener deletions, causing crash later |
570363 | 2-Critical | Potential segfault when MRF messages cross from one TMM to another. |
569316 | 2-Critical | Core occurs on standby in MRF when routing to a route using a transport config |
618121-2 | 3-Major | "persist add" irule validation fails for RTSP_RESPONSE event on upgrade to v12.x.x★ |
609575 | 3-Major | BIG-IP drops ACKs containing no max-forwards header |
609328 | 3-Major | SIP Parser incorrectly parsers empty header |
608927 | 3-Major | SIP Parser logging improvements |
607713 | 3-Major | SIP Parser fails header with multiple sequential separators inside quoted string. |
603019 | 3-Major | Inserted SIP VIA branch parameter not unique between INVITE and ACK |
601255 | 3-Major | RTSP response to SETUP request has incorrect client_port attribute |
599521-1 | 3-Major | Persistence entries not added if message is routed via an iRule |
598854-4 | 3-Major | sipdb tool incorrectly displays persistence records without a pool name |
598700-1 | 3-Major | MRF SIP Bidirectional Persistence does not work with multiple virtual servers |
597835 | 3-Major | Branch parameter in inserted VIA header not consistent as per spec |
585639 | 3-Major | SIP rport value not set in the BIG-IP system response to client RFC 3581 |
583101 | 3-Major | ADAPT::result bypass after continue causes bad state transition |
583010-1 | 3-Major | Sending a SIP invite with "tel" URI fails with a reset |
578564 | 3-Major | ICAP: Client RST when HTTP::respond in HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE after ICAP REQMOD returned HTTP response |
573075 | 3-Major | ADAPT recursive loop when handling successive iRule events |
566576 | 3-Major | ICAP/OneConnect reuses connection while previous response is in progress |
401815-2 | 3-Major | IP ToS not passing through with SIP LB |
600431 | 4-Minor | DIAMETER::avp data get "id" ip4|ip6 errors on valid AVP |
585807 | 4-Minor | 'ICAP::method <method>' iRule is documented but is read-only |
561500 | 4-Minor | ICAP Parsing improvement |
494019 | 4-Minor | System matches messages to previous Diameter Route Application ID after modifying ID value |
493206 | 4-Minor | Diameter traffic not restricted to virtual server assigned to static route |
493061 | 4-Minor | Priority order of Diameter Router Profile static routes determined by order in bigip.conf |
Advanced Firewall Manager Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
641137 | 2-Critical | SSH Proxy does not correctly parse public keys containing comments |
612874 | 2-Critical | iRule with FLOW_INIT stage execution can cause TMM restart |
609095 | 2-Critical | mcpd memory grows when updating firewall rules |
605427 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash when adding and removing virtual servers with security log profiles |
605383 | 2-Critical | Requsts are dropped when custom captcha response page is longer than 1024 bytes |
602653 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash after updating bot-signatures |
564058 | 2-Critical | AutoDoS daemon aborts intermittently after it's being up for several days |
560871 | 2-Critical | TMM crash when deleting several thousands of address-list objects with address-list references on VE using the command 'tmsh delete security firewall address-list all'. |
639193 | 3-Major | BIG-IP devices configured with Manual Sync, deleting parent policy causes sync to fail. |
632731 | 3-Major | specific external logging configuration can cause TMM service restart |
631025 | 3-Major | 500 internal error on inline rule editor for certain firewall policies |
630356 | 3-Major | JavaScript challenge follow-up to POST is sent as GET in iframe from IE/Edge |
626438 | 3-Major | Frame is not showing in the browser and/ or an error appears |
625523 | 3-Major | CAPTCHA Challenge on Edge 14 Browser when Proactive Bot Defense is enabled |
622281 | 3-Major | Network DoS logging configuration change can cause TMM crash |
621808 | 3-Major | Proactive Bot Defense failing in IE11 with Compatibility View enabled |
617620 | 3-Major | Firewall rule with Multicast/Link Local IPv6 addresses netmask bigger than 32 will not work |
614563 | 3-Major | AVR TPS calculation is inaccurate |
614284 | 3-Major | Performance fix to not reset a data structure in the packet receive hotpath. |
613459 | 3-Major | Non-common browsers blocked by Proactive Bot Defense |
610857 | 3-Major | DoSL7 Proactive Bot Defense should block requests from a browser (Chrome/Firefox) when it is running selenium webdriver. |
610129 | 3-Major | Config load failure when cluster management IP is not defined, but instead uses address-list. |
608566 | 3-Major | The reference count of NW dos log profile in tmm log is incorrect |
606875 | 3-Major | DoS Application - Block requests from suspicious browsers feature causes javascript latency for webapp first page |
601924 | 3-Major | Selenium detection by ports scanning doesn't work even if the ports are opened |
596809 | 3-Major | It is possible to create ssh rules with blank space for auth-info |
596502 | 3-Major | Unable to force Bot Defense action to Allow in iRule |
595832 | 3-Major | SSH Proxy profile visible in GUI available without AFM provision |
594869-1 | 3-Major | AFM can log DoS attack against the internal mpi interface and not the actual interface |
594075 | 3-Major | Sometimes when modifying the firewall rules, the blob does not compile and pccd restarts periodically |
593925 | 3-Major | ssh profile should not contain rules that begin and end with spaces (cannot be deleted) |
593696 | 3-Major | Sync fails when deleting an ssh profile |
592113-4 | 3-Major | tmm core on the standby unit with dos vectors configured |
591828 | 3-Major | For unmatched connection TCP RST may not be sent for data packet |
590805 | 3-Major | Active Rules page displays a different time zone. |
585823 | 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) |
583024 | 3-Major | TMM restart rarely during startup |
578987 | 3-Major | Whitelisted IPs of non-default DoS profile are ignored |
572029 | 3-Major | Using ECDSA Keys for User Public Key Auth or the Backend Server is configured to use ECDSA keys |
525158 | 3-Major | Rebooting active device before syncing a manual sync device group causes both devices to compile and deploy the blob |
523111 | 3-Major | Disabling on-demand-compile/on-demand-deploy on standby, sometimes the setting will revert back to enabled on the active or standby automatically |
522043 | 3-Major | ASM triggers geo-based dos mitigation against RFC1918 addresses. |
501892 | 3-Major | Selenium is not detected by headless mechanism when using client version without server |
431840-1 | 3-Major | Cannot add vlans to whitelist if they contain a hyphen |
623779 | 4-Minor | Adding a client side challenge whitelist URL wildcard list |
546823 | 4-Minor | PCCD Firewall compilation takes a long time |
495432 | 5-Cosmetic | Add new log messages for AFM rule blob load/activation in datapath. |
Policy Enforcement Manager Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
609005-1 | 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). |
627279 | 2-Critical | Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes. |
627257 | 2-Critical | Potential PEM crash during a Gx operation |
624744 | 2-Critical | Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes. |
624733 | 2-Critical | Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes. |
624228 | 2-Critical | Memory leak when using insert action in pem rule and flow gets aborted |
623922 | 2-Critical | TMM failure in PEM while processing Service-Provider Disaggregation |
622220 | 2-Critical | Disruption during manipulation of PEM data with suspected flow irregularity |
611467 | 2-Critical | TMM coredump at dhcpv4_server_set_flow_key(). |
608009 | 2-Critical | Crash: Tmm crashing when active system connections are deleted from cli |
603825 | 2-Critical | Crash when a Gy update message is received by a debug TMM |
593070 | 2-Critical | TMM may crash with multiple IP addresses per session |
628869-3 | 3-Major | Unconditional logs seen due to the presence of a PEM iRule. |
627798 | 3-Major | Buffer length check for quota bucket objects |
627616 | 3-Major | CCR-U missing upon VALIDITY TIMER expiry when quota is zero |
623927 | 3-Major | Flow entry memory leaked after DHCP DORA process |
623491 | 3-Major | After receiving the first Gx response from the PCRF, the BWC action against a rule is lost. |
623037 | 3-Major | delete of pem session attribute does not work after a update |
618657 | 3-Major | Bogus ICMP unreachable messages in PEM with ipother profile in use |
617014 | 3-Major | tmm core using PEM |
608742 | 3-Major | DHCP: DHCP renew ack messages from server are getting dropped by BIGIP in Forward mode. |
608591 | 3-Major | Subscriber ID type should be set to NAI over Diameter for DHCP discovered subscribers |
592070 | 3-Major | DHCP server connFlow when created based on the DHCP client connFlow does not have the traffic group ID copied |
588456 | 3-Major | PEM deletes existing PEM Subscriber Session after lease time expires (DHCP renewal not processed). |
577863 | 3-Major | DHCP relay not forwarding server DHCPOFFER and DHCPACK message after sometime |
572568 | 3-Major | Gy CCR-i requests are not being re-sent after initial configured re-transmits |
564281 | 3-Major | TMM (debug) assert seen during Failover with Gy |
472860-6 | 3-Major | RADIUS session statistics for the subscribers created with an iRule running on the RADIUS virtual server are not incremented. |
Carrier-Grade NAT Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
606066 | 2-Critical | LSN_DELETE messages may be lost after HA failover |
605525 | 2-Critical | Deterministic NAT combined with NAT64 may cause a TMM core |
584921 | 2-Critical | Inbound connections fail to keep port block alive |
629871-1 | 3-Major | FTP ALG deployment should not rewrite PASV response 464 XLAT cases |
602171 | 3-Major | TMM may core when remote LSN operations time out |
587106 | 3-Major | Inbound connections are reset prematurely when zombie timeout is configured. |
576752 | 3-Major | Licensing Warning displays when CGNAT is licensed and LTM is provisioned |
548105 | 3-Major | PCP and inbound-entry iRules command does not work with under-provisioned PBA LSN pool |
Fraud Protection Services Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
603234 | 2-Critical | Performance Improvements |
629627 | 3-Major | FPS Log Publisher is not grouped nor filtered by partition |
628337 | 3-Major | Forcing a single injected tag configuration is restrictive |
625275 | 3-Major | Unable to add and modify URL parameters containing square brackets "[]" in FPS GUI |
623518 | 3-Major | Unable to add users in User Enforcement list under user-defined partition. Update check fails in user-defined partition |
609098-2 | 3-Major | Improve details of ajax failure |
604885 | 3-Major | Redirect/Route action doesn't work if there is an alert logging iRule |
603997-1 | 3-Major | Plugin should not inject nonce to CSP header with unsafe-inline |
603029 | 3-Major | Secure alerts and phishing alerts are shown URL-encoded |
597528 | 3-Major | define default score for fps-generated alerts |
597471-1 | 3-Major | Some Alerts are sent with outdated username value |
594910-2 | 3-Major | FPS flags no cookie when length check fails |
590608 | 3-Major | Alert is not redirected to alert server when unseal fails |
590578 | 3-Major | False positive "URL error" alerts on URLs with GET parameters |
588058 | 3-Major | False positive "failed to unseal" Source Integrity alerts from old versions of Internet Explorer |
583367-2 | 3-Major | AJAX encryption may send corrupted payload when configuration is incorrect |
577697-1 | 3-Major | WebSafe features do not support Non-UTF8 encodings. |
564779-1 | 3-Major | Compatibility issues with phishing detection and dosL7 |
621811 | 4-Minor | Alert Component and Malware values are reset when deleting unsaved user-defined alert |
605125 | 4-Minor | Sometimes, passwords fields are readonly |
601083 | 4-Minor | FPS Globally Forbidden Words lists freeze in IE 11 |
592274 | 4-Minor | RAT-Detection alerts sent with incorrect duration details |
591351 | 4-Minor | False positive browser automation alert |
589318 | 4-Minor | Clicking 'Customize All' checkbox does not work. |
Global Traffic Manager (DNS) Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
620215 | 2-Critical | TMM out of memory causes core in DNS cache |
584374 | 2-Critical | iRule cmd: RESOLV::lookup causes tmm crash when resolving an IP address. |
570575 | 2-Critical | RESOLV::lookup against a TCP virtual will cause tmm core |
637227-5 | 3-Major | DNS Validating Resolver produces inconsistent results with DNS64 configurations. |
632423 | 3-Major | DNS::query can cause tmm crash if AXFR/IXFR types specified. |
628180 | 3-Major | DNS Express may fail after upgrade★ |
625671 | 3-Major | The diagnostic tool dnsxdump may crash with non-standard DNS RR types. |
624193-3 | 3-Major | Topology load balancing improvement |
623023 | 3-Major | Unable to set DNS Topology Continent to Unknown via GUI |
621239 | 3-Major | Certain DNS queries bypass DNS Cache RPZ filter. |
619398 | 3-Major | TMM out of memory causes core in DNS cache |
619158 | 3-Major | iRule DNS request with trailing dot times out with empty response |
612769 | 3-Major | Added better search capabilities on the Pool Members Manage page. |
609527 | 3-Major | DNS cache local zone not properly copying recursion desired (RD) flag in response |
607658 | 3-Major | GUI becomes unresponsive when managing GSLB Pool |
605260 | 3-Major | [GUI] Changes can not be made to GTM listener in partition with default route domain <> 0 |
596242 | 3-Major | [zxfrd] Improperly configured master name server for one zone makes dns express responds with previoius record |
581824 | 3-Major | "Instance not found" error when viewing the properties of GSLB monitors gateway_icmp and bigip_link. |
557434 | 3-Major | After setting a Last Resort Pool on a Wide IP, cannot reset back to None |
523198 | 3-Major | DNS resolver multiplexing might cause unexpected behaviors |
433678 | 3-Major | A monitor removed from GTM link cannot be deleted: 'monitor is in use' |
604371 | 4-Minor | Pagination controls missing for GSLB pool members |
Anomaly Detection Services Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
588405 | 3-Major | BADOS - BIG-IP Self-protection during (D)DOS attack |
588399 | 3-Major | BIG-IP CPU utilization can be high even when all bad actors are detected and mitigated |
582374 | 3-Major | Multiple 'Loading state for virtual server' messages in admd.log |
569121 | 3-Major | Advanced Detection rate limiting can be incorrect in multi-blade clusters when rate limit is low |
547053 | 3-Major | Bad actor quarantining |
608826 | 4-Minor | Greylist (bad actors list) is not cleaned when attack ends |
Traffic Classification Engine Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
625172 | 2-Critical | tmm crashes when classification is enabled and ftp traffic is flowing trough the box |
624370 | 2-Critical | tmm crash during classification hitless upgrade if virtual server configuration is modified |
592952 | 2-Critical | Configuring connection mirroring when using AFM send_to_virtual action |
590795 | 2-Critical | tmm crash when loading default signatures or updating classification signature★ |
631472 | 3-Major | Reseting classification signatures to default may result in non-working configuration |
511710 | 4-Minor | URL Categorization: URL lookup is performed on URL without query string starting v13.0 |
378094 | 4-Minor | Support for SPDY over TLS |
Device Management Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
606518 | 2-Critical | iControl REST with 3rd party auth does not function as expected with '@' / email addresses as username. |
627341 | 3-Major | TMUI loginProviderName is invalid when requesting a REST token |
626542 | 3-Major | Unable to set maxMessageBodySize in iControl REST after upgrade★ |
621401-4 | 3-Major | When HA is configured on BIG-IPs managed by BIG-IQ, the AVR reporting from BIG-IQ may fail under the load |
608373 | 3-Major | Some iApp LX packages will not be saved during upgrade or UCS save/restore |
580726 | 3-Major | License state information from REST worker is out of sync with device |
iApp Technology Fixes
ID Number | Severity | Description |
603605 | 2-Critical | Cannot install DoS Hybrid Defender on standby device in HA pair if it's already installed on active |
599424 | 2-Critical | iApps LX fails to sync★ |
615824-2 | 3-Major | REST API calls to invalid REST endpoint log level change |
Cumulative fix details for BIG-IP v13.0.0 that are included in this release
641582 : Rarely, an HSB transmitter failure occurs
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
A very rare HSB transmitter failure occurs. This is indicated by the following message in the tmm logs:
panic: hsb interface 1 DMA lockup on transmitter failure.
Conditions:
Although the exact conditions for this issue are unknown, this might be related to a 5250 platform or to a configuration containing a vCMP guest.
Impact:
Reboot of the unit.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The reboot of the unit occurs very rarely, and the conditions for this issue are not well understood. In this release, an internal counter has been added to track occurrences of HSB transmitter failures of this type, which will enable better understanding of the issue and a more thorough investigation into its cause.
641137 : SSH Proxy does not correctly parse public keys containing comments
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
The BIG-IP will RST the server side and client side connections upon connection initialization. If you have logging set up, log messages will inform you that the keys were mismatched.
Conditions:
Configuring the SSH Proxy feature's Real Server Auth public key field, using a public key that contains a comment, such as a trailing "root@myserver.local".
Impact:
SSH proxy fails.
Workaround:
Strip any comments from the Real Server Auth public key, such as "root@host.example.com".
Fix:
SSH Proxy now correctly parses public keys containing comments.
639193 : BIG-IP devices configured with Manual Sync, deleting parent policy causes sync to fail.
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
In high availability (HA) environment where BIG-IP devices are configured for Manual Sync, deleting parent policy causes sync to fail.
Conditions:
This occurs when you delete the parent of a policy that was used as the parent of another policy. For example:
1. Clone Policy A and create Policy B.
2. Clone Policy B and create Policy C.
3. Delete Policy B.
Impact:
Manual sync operation fails.
Workaround:
Use one of the following Workarounds:
A. Enable automatic sync for HA configurations.
B. Run the following commands:
tmsh save sys config partitions all
tmsh load sys config partitions all
Sync
Fix:
In HA environments containing BIG-IP devices configured for Manual Sync, deleting parent policy no longer causes sync to fail.
638935 : Monitor with send/receive string containing double-quote may cause upgrade to fail.★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When you upgrade from an affected version, the config gets saved before moving to the new version, thus dropping the enclosing quotes and causing a load failure when booting into the new version.
Conditions:
Configuration where monitor string contains \" (backslash double-quote) but does not contain one of the following characters: ' (single quote), | (pipe), { (open brace), } (close brace), ; (semicolon), # (hashtag), literal newline, or literal space.
Impact:
Configuration fails to load.
Workaround:
Manually edit each string in the bigip.conf to include enclosing quotes in order to get the config to load the first time.
Fix:
Configs load successfully after upgrade. Surrounding quotes, if missing, are added to strings in the bigip.conf file after upgrade. For example:
\"service_status\":\"on\".+\"maintenance\":\"off\" in the recv, send recv-disable and username fields. Output of list ltm monitor and bigip.conf match. Reloading the same config via tmsh does not cause unintentional changes, wuch as losing a level of escape in monitor strings.
637559 : Modifying iRule online could cause TMM to be killed by SIGABRT
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
If iRule is used by several virtual servers, and you edit the iRule online, it could cause TMM to be eventually killed by SOD (watchdog).
Conditions:
This can occur under the following conditions:
1. The iRule is used by large number of virtual servers.
2. You edit the iRule and save changes.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
If iRule is used by several virtual servers, and you edit the iRule online, it no longer causes TMM to be eventually killed by SOD (watchdog).
637279-1 : Pool member discovery/autoscale does not work in eu-central-1 (Germany) region of AWS.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Pool member discovery does not work and produces the following error: as-describe-auto-scaling-groups: Refused: The security token included in the request is invalid.
Conditions:
This occurs in the eu-central-1 region only. Does not apply for failover. Note: This error might happen even when correct IAM credentials are specified.
Impact:
Pool member discovery cannot be run in eu-central-1 region.
Workaround:
Create autoscale configuration in regions other than eu-central-1.
Fix:
Pool member discovery/autoscale now works in eu-central-1 (Germany) region of AWS.
637227-5 : DNS Validating Resolver produces inconsistent results with DNS64 configurations.
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
A DNS Validating Resolver incorrectly validates DNS responses received from A queries made as a result of a front-end AAAA query received on a profile with DNS64 configured.
A SERVFAIL response may be sent to the client unless the Validating Resolver cache has previously successfully validated a front-end A query. In this scenario where the A records already exist in the cache, the expected DNS64 AAAA records are synthesized.
Conditions:
This issue may be observed with a DNS Validating Resolver configured on a DNS profile with DNS64 configured when processing AAAA queries.
Impact:
Incorrect SERVFAIL responses for AAAA queries that should get valid responses.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
DNS validation now occurs as expected, resulting in valid answers to AAAA queries.
636918 : Fix for crash when multiple tunnels use the same traffic selector
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Given multiple tunnels with the same traffic selector, a crash could sometimes occur.
Conditions:
Same traffic selector used with more than one tunnel.
Impact:
Possible tmm restart if problem happens. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Use different traffic selectors for different tunnels.
Fix:
Fixed a tmm crash related to traffic selectors used with more than one tunnel.
636397 : bd cores when persistent storage configuration and under some memory conditions.
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
bd cores. Log signature in /var/log/bd looks similar to the following:
BD_MISC|ERR |Jan 02 14:24:06.422|27867|io_manager_init.c:0395|internal_keep_alive: BD shrinking...,going down - BD will be right back.
ptr BD_MISC|CRIT |Jan 02 14:24:06.422|27867|signals.c:0073|Received SIGSEGV - Core Dumping.
Conditions:
There is persistent storage configuration. There is high memory usage.
Impact:
bd crash. Traffic resets and/or failover
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
This release fixes a bd crash due to specific memory conditions and persistent storage.
635129-3 : Chassis systems in HA configuration become Active/Active during upgrade★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When devices in a Device Service Cluster are upgraded, multiple devices will become Active simultaneously.
The affected versions erroneously clear their management-ip during reboot and synchronize this to other members of the Device Service Cluster. If the system is not performing an upgrade, the error is repaired as the device starts up, and has no visible effect. If an upgrade is being performed, the management-ip cannot be repaired, and the Device Service Cluster members lose contact with each other, and all become Active.
Conditions:
This problem occurs on VIPRION chassis systems, either running natively, or as a VCMP guest, when upgrading from the affected versions (12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2), to any other version. The problem occurs on any upgrade, whether on the list of affected versions, or a later version.
Impact:
When multiple devices become Active simultaneously, traffic is disrupted.
Workaround:
There is no workaround other than to remain in Active/Active state until all Chassis are finished upgrade. See https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K43990943 for more information on how to mitigate this issue.
Fix:
The erroneous management-ip change is not made, and the HA failover mechanism operates correctly across upgrade.
634265 : Using route pools whose members aren't directly connected may crash the TMM.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The TMM crashes when trying to resolve routes using route pools whose members are not directly connected.
Conditions:
A configuration has route pools whose members aren't directly connected. Additionally, this is an issue only in configurations where the TMM doesn't proxy traffic but sources traffic. An example is an sFLOW configuration.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts. The TMM crashes whenever a connection tries to resolve such a route.
Workaround:
Create route pools with directly connected members.
Fix:
Using route pools whose members aren't directly connected no longer crashes the TMM.
634125 : Access Profile with incorrect topology may be imported in some cases.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Access Profile with several references to the same macrocall Access Policy Item may be imported without errors. Such profile cannot be displayed by VPE; it may cause APM crash as well.
Conditions:
Importing Access Profile with several references to the same macrocall API.
Impact:
Client may not be connected to Virtual Server.
Workaround:
Manually edit bigip.conf file to replace invalid reference with reference to Default Ending.
Fix:
Now, an Access Policy containing duplicated references to macrocall API cannot be imported. At upgrade time, such a policy is corrected by replacing invalid references with references to Default Ending.
634115 : Not all topology records may sync.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Some GTM topology records may silently not be synchronized to other devices in the sync group.
Conditions:
One known case occurs when topology records have overlapping subnet specifiers (such as 1.0.0.0/8 and 1.0.0.0/9). It is possible that there are other conditions that might cause this issue.
Impact:
Other devices in the GTM sync group will have an incomplete set of topology records, so the returned DNS answers may differ from the expected values.
Workaround:
After updating topology records, run the following command to force a push of all GTM objects: run cm config-sync force-full-load-push to-group gtm.
Fix:
Some GTM topology records may have silently not been synchronized to other devices in the sync group. This is now resolved; all topology objects will be synchronized to all expected devices.
634001 : ASM restarts after deleting a VS that has an ASM security policy assigned to it
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
ASM restarts with the following errors:
'ltm' log error:
--------
err mcpd[9458]: 0107102e:3: gtm_vs_score refers to nonexistent virtual server (/<partition>/<app>/<vsname>).
--------
'ts_debug.log' error:
--------
asm|INFO|0107102e:3: gtm_vs_score refers to nonexistent virtual server (/<partition>/<app>/<vsname>).
--------
Conditions:
ASM provisioned
Deleting a virtual server that has an ASM security policy assigned to it.
Impact:
ASM restart
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
ASM no longer restarts when deleting a virtual server that has an ASM security policy assigned to it.
633512 : HA Auto-failback will cause an Active/Active overlap, or flapping, on VIPRION.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When a preferred device becomes available and takes over due to an Auto-Failback configuration, the takeover is not performed as a smooth handoff, but instead results in both devices becoming Active for the network failover timeout period (3 seconds).
Conditions:
This problem affects traffic groups on VIPRION systems configured with HA Order and Auto-Failback enabled.
Impact:
Since both nodes are Active for (by default) 3 seconds, this may cause network traffic to be dropped or interrupted during the overlap interval. In addition, the Active/Active overlap may not resolve in favor of the preferred device. When this happens, the preferred device attempts to Auto-Failback again after the Auto-Failback expires, and the process repeats forever.
Workaround:
Do not configure Auto-Failback on VIPRION.
Fix:
The devices perform a clean handoff during Auto-Failback, with no Active/Active overlap.
633349-2 : localdbmgr hangs and eventually crashes
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
localdbmgr hangs and eventually crashes due to a rare condition where the program is trapped inside an internal infinite loop upon logging configuration changes.
Conditions:
Rare condition upon logging configuration changes.
Impact:
localdbmgr crashes.
Workaround:
localdbmgr restarts and recovers from this crash.
Fix:
Added safety check in logging configuration code to protect against unwanted config insertions.
632968 : supported_signature_algorithms extension in CertificateRequest sent by a TLS server fails
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Clients are unable to establish an SSL session.
If the backend server sends a Certificate Request with Signature Hash Algorithms set to SHA256, the serverssl profile responds with Certificate + Certificate Verify containing signature signed by SHA1 when ssl-sign-hash in that profile is set to 'ANY'.
Since the backend server does not expect SHA1 the handshake fails.
Conditions:
* BIG-IP is communicating with a TLS server (applies to serverssl profile).
* TLS server is requesting client authentication (this is less common).
* TLS client using the supported_signature_algorithms extension (this is very common)
* TLS 1.2 is likely needed. TLS 1.0 doesn't support extensions.
Impact:
BIG-IP will sign the TLS handshake with the SHA1 algorithm, which will fail on the server.
Note that this issue is orthogonal to the issue of hash algorithm in X.509 certificates, e.g. "SHA1 in X.509 certificates".
Workaround:
No mitigation is known.
Fix:
BIG-IP now properly parses the following extension in CertificateRequest by a TLS server.:
SignatureAndHashAlgorithm supported_signature_algorithms<2^16-1>.
This allows the existing logic to work, in particular, to learn that the server supports SHA2 family of hash algorithms and use them with the signature in the TLS handshake.
632798 : Double-free may occur if Access initialization fails
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Double-free may occur if Access initialization fails.
Conditions:
Access initialization failure occurs, possibly due to license issues.
Impact:
tmm crashes and cores. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
This release fixes a double free condition so that the associated tmm crash no longer occurs.
632731 : specific external logging configuration can cause TMM service restart
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
When external logging is configured for ACL rule hits, and the logging server connection is routed through a Forwarding Virtual, the ACL logging causes a TMM crash and service disruption.
Conditions:
The problem is seen when all the following conditions match:
1. External Logging server configured for ACL rule match.
2. External logging server is routed through a Forwarding Virtual (the destination IP of the external logging server matches a Forwarding Virtual's destination address/mask and hence gets routed through the Forwarding VIP).
3. The forwarded logging destination connection causes a crash in TMM.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Use one of the following workarounds:
--Avoid configuring remote logging to be forwarded through a Forwarding Virtual.
-- Do not have logging enabled on the forwarding Virtual.
Fix:
Connections originated from the BIG-IP to the remote logging server are not subjected to ACL checks, which prevents generation of logs for log server connection, which prevents the error conditions.
632685-1 : bigd memory leak for FQDN nodes on non-primary bigd instance
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
On the non-primary blade with FQDN nodes configured, bigd.1 or bigd.2 (etc.) are consuming an unusually high amount of memory, and bigd cores may exist.
Conditions:
FQDN nodes configured on a VIPRION system. As configuration changes are made to FQDN nodes, bigd on the non-primary places memory consumption may be unusually high.
Impact:
bigd memory leak; possible bigd crash.
Workaround:
None.
632552 : tmm crashes when CLIENT_CLOSED or SERVER_CLOSED is used with parking command in another event
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
tmm crashes.
Conditions:
When CLIENT_CLOSED or SERVER_CLOSED is used with parking command in another event which is fired before either event.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Move the script in _CLOSED events to another events.
Fix:
tmm no longer crashes when CLIENT_CLOSED or SERVER_CLOSED is used with parking command in another event.
632423 : DNS::query can cause tmm crash if AXFR/IXFR types specified.
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
Passing "AXFR" or "IXFR" as the type to the DNS::query iRule command can cause a tmm crash.
Conditions:
DNS Express must be enabled when one of the XFR types is used in the DNS::query iRule command.
Impact:
tmm will crash and restart every time this command is issued. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Do not explicitly use AXFR or IXFR query types.
If the [DNS::question type] command is being used to dynamically pass in the type, add a preceding check similar to the following:
if { not [DNS::question type] ends_with "XFR" } {
set rrs [DNS::query dnsx [DNS::question name] [DNS::question type]]
}
Fix:
The iRule now provides an error message in /var/log/ltm indicating that AXFR and IXFR are not valid types to use with the DNS::query command, and no tmm crash occurs as a result.
632386 : EdgeClient cannot establish iClient control connection to BIG-IP if another control connection exists
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When a iClient control connection, between Edge Client and BIG-IP, exists for a given session id, a new iClient control connection for the same session id cannot be established until the existing connection is torn down. When the client interface is down or the client changes networks, it takes time for the BIG-IP to detect that the existing control connection is down. During this time, if the client attempts to establish a new control connection (interface up or different network), BIG-IP rejects the new connection request.
Conditions:
EdgeClient attempts to open a new iClient control connection with the same session id as that of an existing control connection and without explicitly closing the current connection. This could happen when the client interface is down or clients changes the network it is on.
Impact:
Edge Client cannot establish a iClient control connection and hence a tunnel to the BIG-IP.
Fix:
When BIG-IP sees a new iClient control connection request for a session id for which another iClient control connection exists, the existing connection is closed and the new connection request is attempted to be accepted.
632324 : PVA stats does not show correct connection number
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
do command tmsh show sys pva-traffic global
The current connection number showed up may not be correct
Conditions:
This occurs when there is PVA Traffic
Impact:
Wrong stats number for current PVA connections
Fix:
Fixed incorrect statistics for PVA Traffic
632204 : Local Traffic Policies rule page is incorrectly showing all partition's objects in 'Forward traffic' actions
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When creating an LTM policy rule action 'Forward Traffic' and selecting from a list of pools or virtual servers, objects from partitions other than the current partition and the Common partition show up.
Conditions:
This occurs on the LTM policy rule creation page within a specific partition, and there are objects of the same type in other partitions.
Impact:
Users without access to the associated partition receive an error when selecting an object from that partition and clicking submit.
Workaround:
Do not select objects other than the ones in the current or Common partition from a dropdown.
Fix:
Local Traffic Policies rule page now shows only objects within the current partition or Common partition. This is correct behavior.
632001 : For Thales net-HSMs, fipskey.nethsm now defaults to module protected keys
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
fipskey.nethsm uses a Thales utility to actually generate/export keys. This utility looks at files in .../kmdata/local to determine what type of protection to use. If there are any softcard or OCS files, then the key will be token protected. If there aren't any files then the key will be module protected.
This can be a problem for BIG-IP since that entire folder is synced down to it, so OCS or softcard files unrelated to the BIG-IP operation will change fipskey.nethsm's behavior.
Conditions:
Use fipskey.nethsm to generate/export a nethsm-protected key while there are OCS or softcard files in the BIG-IP system's .../kmdata/localfolder.
Impact:
Key protection type changes based on the presence of softcard or OCS files in .../kmdata/local.
Workaround:
Explicitly use the -c or --protect option to define the protection type when generating/exporting keys.
Fix:
fipskey.nethsm will now default to making a module-protected key regardless of the presence of OCS or softcard files in .../kmdata/local.
Scripts that export or generate token or softcard protected keys will now need to explicitly set the protection type via the -c or the --protect option in all situations.
631866 : Cannot access LTM policy rules in the web UI when the name contains certain characters
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Access LTM policy rules in the web UI when the name contains ampersand (%) or slash (/) displays an empty page.
Conditions:
The LTM policy rule name being accessed must contains the characters ampersand (%) or slash (/).
Impact:
The policy rule properties page displays an empty page.
Workaround:
Update the LTM policy rule using tmsh.
Fix:
LTM policy rules can be accessed as expected in the web UI regardless of their names.
631737 : ArcSight cs4 (attack_type) is N/A for certain HTTP Compliance sub-violations
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
ArcSight cs4 (attack_type) is reported as "N/A" for a violation whose sub-violation does not have a specific attack_type_code.
Conditions:
This occurs when there are HTTP Compliance sub-violations such as "Header name with no header value" that do not correlate to any attack_type. Other attack types are as follows:
-- HTTP Protocol Compliance/ High ASCII characters in headers.
-- HTTP Protocol Compliance/ Host header contains IP address.
-- HTTP Protocol Compliance/ CRLF characters before request start.
-- HTTP Protocol Compliance/ Header without header value.
-- HTTP Protocol Compliance/ Body in GET/HEAD requests.
-- Evasion technique/ directories traversals.
Impact:
When one of these violations occurs, the system does not assign the appropriate attack type to the logged request in the log or in the remote logger. The system reports the ArcSight remote logger message as attack_type="N/A". (If no other violation was found.)
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Now, when ArcSight cs4 (attack_type) HTTP Compliance sub-violations do not correlate to any attack_type, the system assigns the parent violation's attack type when reporting the violation.
631727 : Analytics data is displayed per collection interval instead of per second.
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
Analytics data is displayed as total number of events per selected interval (5 minutes by default) instead of average number of events per second in the selected interval.
Conditions:
Analytics data on the following pages is affected:
Statistics :: Analytics :: IP (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Disk :: Disk Activity (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Disk :: Disk Sizes (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: Traffic Details :: Bits (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: Traffic Details :: Packets (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: Traffic Details :: Connections::Client Side Connections.
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: Traffic Details :: Connections::Server Side Connections.
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: TCP :: SynCookies (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: TCP :: Packets (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: TCP :: Connections (All *except* for 'Avg Active Connections').
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: UDP :: Datagrams (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: UDP :: Connections (All *except* for 'Avg Active Connections').
Impact:
Analytics data is accurate, but not displayed as expected, potentially leading to inaccurate interpretations.
Workaround:
The user can divide the displayed results by the number of seconds in the selected interval to get the average per second values.
Fix:
All Analytics data is displayed as average per second, and is not affected by changes to the selected collection interval.
Behavior Change:
Analytics data is displayed per collection interval instead of per second.
Previously, the count of bytes/packets/new connections and so on, was displayed as total number of events that took place during a collection interval (5 minutes by default). This resulted in potential converting the 5 minute interval to "per second," which required dividing every displayed value by 300. Beginning with this release, metrics are displayed as average per second, and not total activity. Using a "per second" is much more intuitive rather than "per 5 minutes".
Analytics data on the following pages is affected:
Statistics :: Analytics :: IP (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Disk :: Disk Activity (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Disk :: Disk Sizes (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: Traffic Details :: Bits (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: Traffic Details :: Packets (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: Traffic Details :: Connections::Client Side Connections.
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: Traffic Details :: Connections::Server Side Connections.
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: TCP :: SynCookies (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: TCP :: Packets (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: TCP :: Connections (All *except* for 'Avg Active Connections').
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: UDP :: Datagrams (All).
Statistics :: Analytics :: Virtual Servers :: UDP :: Connections (All *except* for 'Avg Active Connections').
631627 : Applying BWC over route domain sometimes results in tmm not becoming ready on system start
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Rebooting after applying BWC to route domain stops vlan traffic on VCMP guest. You will experience connection failures when bandwidth Controller (bwc) and Web Accelerator are enabled.
Running the tmsh show sys ha-status all-properties command will indicate that tmm is in "ready-for-world", but the Fail status will read "Yes" when this is triggered.
Conditions:
BWC enabled and associated with a route domain, Web Accelerator is enabled, and the system is rebooted.
Impact:
The system does not comes up fully. TMM does not reach a ready state and will not pass traffic.
Workaround:
Remove BWC from route domain and then reapply the BWC back.
Fix:
BWC enabled and associated with a route domain, Web Accelerator enabled, and the system is rebooted, now results in the system and TMM coming up fully and passing traffic.
631582-6 : Administrative interface enhancement
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In some cases the administrative interface does not respond as designed
Conditions:
In some cases the administrative interface does not respond as designed
Impact:
In some cases the administrative interface does not respond as designed
Fix:
Enhance administrative interface
631472 : Reseting classification signatures to default may result in non-working configuration
Component: Traffic Classification Engine
Symptoms:
Configuration will not load when running "tmsh load ltm classification signature default" or clicking Reset to Defaults button on Traffic Intelligence :: Applications : Signature Update page.
Conditions:
1. You upgrade classification signatures to an IM package, and reference one of the newly added applications / categories in your configuration (e.g., PEM classification filter).
2. You reset classification signatures back to default by running "tmsh load ltm classification signature default" or selecting "Reset To Defaults" on the Traffic Intelligence :: Applications : Signature Update page.
Impact:
Configuration will not load.
Workaround:
Remove application that came with the new IM from the configuration.
Fix:
The release solves the problem of potentially non-working configurations after classification signatures were reset to default.
631444 : Bot Name for ASM Search Engines is case sensitive
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
CS challenge is returned for request with known search engine which is sent with different case than configured.
Conditions:
ASM profile is configured on the VS; DoS profile is not configured on the VS.
Impact:
Known search engines will get CS challenge.
Workaround:
Have DoS profile on the VS, in which the only feature turned on is Bot Signature, in report only, where only search engine category is turned on.
Fix:
making the ASM Search Engines case insensitive
631334-2 : TMSH does not preserve \? for config save/load operations
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
TMSH strips the escape characters for literal strings '\?' to be '?' in ltm monitor send/recv strings.
Conditions:
This condition manifests whenever the send/recv string in ltm monitor contains '\?'.
Impact:
This causes the BIG-IP to load incorrect monitor send/recv strings.
Workaround:
None.
631025 : 500 internal error on inline rule editor for certain firewall policies
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
While attempting to use the inline rule editor on a firewall policy, the system returns a 500 internal error. Viewing and editing the same policy in tmsh works as expected.
Conditions:
This occurs when editing certain firewall policies in the GUI.
Impact:
Unable to view or edit the policy, page returns an error
Workaround:
You can view these rules in the GUI by disabling the inline rule editor.
Fix:
Fixed an issue with certain AFM rules generating a 500 internal error in the GUI.
630929 : Attack signature exception list upload times-out and fails
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
httpd_errors log:
------------
err httpd[<PID>]: [error] [client <client_IP>] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/ts/dms/common/classes/Thrift/packages/asmconfig/f5_thrift.php on line <line_ID>, referer: https://<BIG-IP_MGMT_IP>/dms/policy/pl_header_normalization.php
------------
Conditions:
ASM provisioned.
Attack signature exception list uploaded.
Impact:
Attack signature exception list upload times-out and fails.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Improved the Attack signature exception list upload process to take much less time.
630877 : Apache Tomcat vulnerability CVE-2016-8735
Vulnerability Solution Article: K49820145
630870 : Apache Tomcat vulnerability CVE-2016-6817
Vulnerability Solution Article: K49160100
630856 : Apache Tomcat vulnerability CVE-2016-6816
Vulnerability Solution Article: K50116122
630661 : WAM may leak memory when a WAM policy node has multiple variation header rules
Component: WebAccelerator
Symptoms:
When a WAM policy node has multiple variation header rules, a memory leak occurs upon evaluation of each request.
Conditions:
WAM policy with node utilizing multiple variation header rules.
Impact:
Potential per-request memory leakage driven by client traffic.
Workaround:
The only workaround is to ensure that individual WAM policy nodes have fewer than two header variation rules.
Fix:
WAM no longer leaks memory when evaluation policy nodes which utilize two or more header variation rules.
630622 : tmm crash possible if high-speed logging pool member is deleted and reused
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When deleting and then re-using a high-speed logging pool member that is in use, a rare tmm crash may occur.
Conditions:
High-speed logging profile configured, high-speed logging pool configured, and a pool member is removed and re-added while the pool is in use.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Rare tmm crash no longer occurs if high-speed logging pool member is deleted and reused.
630546-2 : Very large core files may cause corrupted qkviews
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
If a large core file exists, the qkview command may generate a corrupted qkview.
Conditions:
qkview is run when core files greater than 2.4 GB exist in /var/core.
Impact:
qkview is unusable.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
qkview files run when core files greater than 2.4 GB exist in /var/core now complete as expected.
630475 : TMM Crash
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases TMM may crash when processing TCP traffic.
Conditions:
In some cases TMM may crash when processing TCP traffic.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Enable Verified Accept.
Fix:
TMM no longer produces a core.
630356 : JavaScript challenge follow-up to POST is sent as GET in iframe from IE/Edge
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
The JavaScript challenge that is sent to a POST request within an iframe will have a follow-up request of GET when coming from Microsoft Internet Explorer or Edge browser. The request reconstruction is incorrect, and the back-end server does not receive the request payload.
This is relevant to all types JavaScript challenges: Proactive Bot Defense, DoSL7 Client-Side Integrity Defense, Device-ID Challenge, or CAPTCHA Challenge.
Conditions:
JavaScript challenge is used in a POST request, when one of the following features in enabled: Proactive Bot Defense, DoSL7 Client-Side Integrity Defense, Device-ID Challenge, or CAPTCHA Challenge.
Impact:
POST requests will be sent as GET and the request payload will not reach the back-end server.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
JavaScript challenges to POST requests are sent correctly to the back-end server when coming from iframe in Microsoft Internet Explorer/Edge browsers.
630306 : TMM crash in DNS processing on UDP virtual server with no available pool members
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crash when processing requests to a DNS virtual server.
Conditions:
The issue can occur if a UDP DNS virtual receives a request when no pool members are available to service the request and a DNS iRule is suspended due to previous requests.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Mitigation is to ensure at least one pool member is available whenever the DNS virtual is processing traffic, or to avoid iRule commands that can suspend processing.
Ensure datagram LB mode is enabled on UDP DNS virtuals.
Fix:
This release prevents a crash in DNS processing on UDP virtual server with no available pool members.
630150 : Websockets processing error
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases TMM may crash when processing Websockets traffic.
Conditions:
Websockets profile is attached to a virtual.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Improve Websockets processing
630103 : AVR statistics is not saved during the upgrade process
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
All AVR statistics will be reset after upgrade from 12.1.0 or 12.1.1.
Conditions:
AVR statistics collected on 12.1.0 or 12.1.1.
The BIG-IP is upgraded.
Impact:
AVR statistics are reset.
Workaround:
1. before upgrade edit the following file:
./usr/libdata/configsync/avr_save_pre
2. change the following line " [ $(is_provisioned avr) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned pem) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned afm) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned swg) -eq 1 $(is_provisioned asm) -eq 1 ] && "
with " [ $(is_provisioned avr) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned pem) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned afm) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned swg) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned asm) -eq 1 ] && "
Fix:
AVR upgrade script is fixed, so AVR statistics are now saved during the upgrade process.
629871-1 : FTP ALG deployment should not rewrite PASV response 464 XLAT cases
Component: Carrier-Grade NAT
Symptoms:
Deploying NAT64 part of a 464 XLAT solution may overwrite PASV response 464 XLAT cases.
Conditions:
FTP ALG deployment.
Impact:
PASV response 464 XLAT cases overwritten.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Deploying NAT64 part of a 464 XLAT solution no longer overwrites PASV response 464 XLAT cases.
629803 : "HTTP 401 Response" agent reuses incorrect credentials
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In case of invalid credentials, user gets prompted less number of times than the 'Max Logon Attempts Allowed' count defined in auth agent.
Conditions:
The issue occurs only when "HTTP 401 Response" agent is used before authentication agent in access policy.
Impact:
User won't get same number of logon attempts as defined in Auth Agent.
Workaround:
In auth agent, "Max Logon Attempts Allowed" should be set to 5 in order to get 3 logon attempts.
Fix:
User will get same number of logon attempts as defined in auth agent in case of invalid credentials.
629801 : Access policy is applied automatically on target device after policy sync, when there is a also a FODG in the trust domain.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
After syncing an access policy, the access policy change on the other device should be prompting you to apply the policy, but instead it applies the policy automatically.
Conditions:
Two or more devices configured in a trust group, one device group is a failover device group, and one device group is a sync-only device group with automatic sync enabled.
A key component that triggers this symptom is that the failover device group is listed first in the configuration. When this occurs, the policy will be applied automatically, which shouldn't occur.
Impact:
Policy changes are automatically applied, when they should only be synced with a prompt to apply after the sync.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
After syncing an access policy, the access policy change on the other device in the trust group now prompts you to apply the policy, which is correct behavior.
629663-3 : CGNAT SIP ALG will drop SIP INVITE
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
SIP INVITE message is dropped.
Conditions:
Subscriber registers and then attempts to call out.
Impact:
Subscriber not able to make calls.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The system now uses the expiration value from the SIP message i.e. either from expires parameter or the Expire header to update the timeout of the registration record.
629627 : FPS Log Publisher is not grouped nor filtered by partition
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
If there are several log publishers assigned to different partitions, it is not clear which log publisher is assigned to which partition.
All log publishers are displayed regardless of the partition selected.
Conditions:
Provision FPS.
Two or more partitions
Two or more log publishers assigned to different partitions
Impact:
All log publishers are displayed regardless of partition.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Log publishers are now grouped in GUI and filtered by the currently selected partition.
629530-1 : Under certain conditions, monitors do not time out.
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Some monitored resources are marked as "Unknown" when the actual status is "offline".
Conditions:
This can rarely occur when the monitor timeout period elapses when either no response has been received, or a response has been received indicating that the resource is "down" and the monitor is configured to ignore down responses. It is more likely to occur when many monitor timeout periods elapse at the same time, and the monitor timeout value is evenly divisible by the monitor's monitor interval.
Impact:
The status of the monitored resource is incorrect. This does not materially affect the operation of the system since resources marked "Unknown" will not be used.
Workaround:
Disable the affected resources, and then enable them again.
Fix:
The resource status is now correct under all monitor timeout conditions.
629412 : BIG-IP closes a connection when a maximum size window is attempted
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
HTTP2 provides flow control options which allow you to limit the amount of data on flight. A client can send an increment for a window size to an initial value set by standard to 65,535 bytes. BIG-IP used 64K value inherited from SPDY, causing overflow when the client tried to increment the value to its maximum.
Conditions:
HTTP2 profile is configured on a virtual, and client sends a WINDOW_UPDATE frame to increment the value to its maximum.
Impact:
BIG-IP considers the window size overflow as a protocol violation thus it shuts the connection down not serving any request.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
With a correct value for initial window size (for both a connection and a stream) BIG-IP correctly processes an increment request of the window size to its maximum.
629145 : External datagroups with no metadata can crash tmm
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If a large data group exists or the db variable tmm.classallocatemetadata is set to disabled, tmm may crash if the class match iRule matches 9 or more items in the datagroup.
Conditions:
External datagroups in use, a class match iRule will produce at least 9 matches, and the datagroup is extremely large or the db variable tmm.classallocatemetadata is set to disabled.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Fixed a tmm crash related to large datagroups.
628890 : Memory leak when modifying large datagroups
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When modifying large external datagroups, a significant memory leak may occur.
Conditions:
This can occur when a large datagroup is in use and is modified.
Impact:
Memory is leaked, and the amount of memory leaked can be significant.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Fixed a memory leak related to modifying large datagroups.
628869-3 : Unconditional logs seen due to the presence of a PEM iRule.
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
TMM log files will fill up.
Conditions:
Execution of an iRule with the following iRule command:
PEM::subscriber config policy get <subscriber-id> <e164 | imsi | nai | private | mac-address | dhcp | mac-dhcp | dhcp-custom | sip-uri>.
Impact:
Limits the gathering and traversal of relevant data from the TMM logs if the condition is encountered several times.
Workaround:
Do not use an iRule containing the following iRule command: PEM::subscriber config policy get.
Fix:
Unconditional logs are no longer seen in response to the presence of a PEM iRule.
628836 : TMM crash during request normalization
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM may crash during request normalization
Conditions:
This could occur with APM virtual servers, or if an HTTP virtual server is configured with a local traffic policy or iRule that performs normalization.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Improve request normalization
628790 : Adding new item in VPE might end up with error
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Certain policies or macros can't be edited properly, usually after import. Errors like "Agent (XYZ) is already referenced by another access policy item" or "Access policy item type Action (XYZ) is already referenced by more than one access policy item."
Conditions:
When adding new item in certain (usually imported) policies where situation like %PROFILE%_logon_page_1 uses %PROFLE%_logon_page_2_ag might end up that %PROFILE%_logon_page_2 wouldn't be able to create agent
Impact:
VPE is unable to add action / create agent of certain types.
Workaround:
Editing bigip.conf and restoring enumeration for offending item (better for item rather than agent) would help to avoid this bug
Fix:
VPE now properly checks for existing agent names, so policies or macros can be edited properly.
628712 : Advanced customization doesn't work for Profiles in non-common partition with . (period) with name
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Advanced customization doesn't work for Profiles in non-common partition with . (period) with name.
For example, when selecting logon.inc, it shows no source in the window.
Conditions:
Access Profile outside of Common partition.
Impact:
Unable to modify advanced customizaiton. Other functionality is not affected.
Workaround:
Rename profile and policy to non-period version or import profile and then reexport with no periods.
Fix:
Advanced customization now works for Profiles in non-Common partition with . (period) with name
628687 : Edge Client reconnection issues with captive portal
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Edge Client stuck at 'Reconnecting' when losing connection to Captive Portal with certificate warning.
Conditions:
Connect to APM through a captive portal.
Impact:
EdgeClient stuck at "Reconnecting".
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Edge Client no longer hangs at 'Reconnecting' when losing connection to Captive Portal with certificate warning.
628685 : Edge Client shows several security warnings after roaming to a network with Captive Portal
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Network is blocked by a captive portal. Captive portal uses HTTPS. Periodic-session-check reports SSL certificate is not trusted because access to APM is redirected (to captive portal).
Conditions:
Create a VPN tunnel over WiFi.
Place the computer in sleep/hibernate.
Move to a new network with Captive Portal with SSL and resume from sleep/hibernate.
Impact:
Numerous security warnings.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Edge Client no longer shows several security warnings after roaming to a network with Captive Portal.
628460 : Core happen when we try to delete PH2 struct does not have a proper PH1 reference.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Racoon cored.
Conditions:
It is not known what triggered the core, it has been observed only once.
Impact:
Racoon crash and restore. Usually end user can't see it.
Fix:
Added protection from using an internal structure without proper tag.
628337 : Forcing a single injected tag configuration is restrictive
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
Injected tags configuration in profile is globally controlled from the db variable antifraud.injecttags, and forces all protected pages to have a common set of HTML tags. If your web application has pages that do not work with the injected tags, then this will cause the application to work improperly.
Conditions:
This occurs when the injected tags db variable (antifraud.injecttags) is configured.
Impact:
Your web application may have pages that do not handle the tags properly and may malfunction.
Workaround:
Configure injected tags in a way which can applied to all URLs protected in a profile. If it is not possible due to some URL HTML structure, HTML must be modified.
Fix:
Injected tags configuration has been moved to the URL level.
628202 : Audit-forwarder can take up an excessive amount of memory during a high volume of logging
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
During a period where a lot of data is logged (such as the loading of a large configuration), audit_forwarder can use up a large amount of memory.
Conditions:
audit_forwarder is used with config.auditing.forward.type set to either "none" or "radius" and config.auditing set to "verbose" or "all".
Impact:
The excessive memory usage may result in processes getting restarted. Once the logging is done, audit_forwarder will not release all of the used memory.
Workaround:
Setting config.auditing value to "enable" or "disable" will slow or stop the excessive memory usage.
Fix:
Prevented audit_forwarder from using more memory than it needs.
628180 : DNS Express may fail after upgrade★
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
TMM may not answer DNSX zones without TMM restart / DNSX zone refresh on upgrade.
Conditions:
Upgrading from previous version.
Impact:
DNS Express may fail after TMM.
Workaround:
Restart TMM, or force TMM to reload the DNS express database by running "tmsh load ltm dns dns-express-db".
Fix:
TMM now answers DNSX zones without requiring TMM restart / DNSX zone refresh on upgrade.
627972 : Unable to save advanced customization when using Exchange iApp
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When Policy created using Microsoft Exchange iApp script, Advanced Customization (usually of logon page) might fail with error similar to the following: 01020066:3: The requested Customization Template File (/Common/Exchange.app/exch_custom_logon_ag logon.inc) already exists in partition Common.
Conditions:
Usually: HA Pair, iApp exchange created profile, in general any advanced customization where name not equals customization_group_name:filename is affected.
Impact:
Unable to edit advanced customization, functionality is unaffected.
Workaround:
edit bigip.conf
apm policy customization-group /Common/Exchange_2010.app/exch_custom_logon_ag {
templates {
logon.inc {
name /Common/Exchange_2010.app/exch_custom_logon:logon.inc
}
}
}
change
name /Common/Exchange_2010.app/exch_custom_logon:logon.inc
to customizaton_group_name:filename i.e.
name /Common/Exchange_2010.app/exch_custom_logon_ag:logon.inc
Fix:
Can now save advanced customization when using Microsoft Exchange iApp.
627926 : iRule decryption does not work
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Retrieving the server-side SSL session ID using iRule does not work.
Conditions:
Retrieve server-side SSL Session ID using an iRule.
Impact:
Server-side traffic cannot be decrypted for non-RSA cipher suites.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The server-side SSL session ID can now be retrieved with an iRule.
627914 : Unbundled 40GbE optics reporting as Unsupported Optic
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When a 40G interface is configured "bundle disabled" the optic module in use on the interface will be declared as an "Unsupported optic" module even though the optic module is F5 branded.
Conditions:
Using unbundled 40GbE optics.
Impact:
This is a cosmetic problem. The interface is able to function as intended.
Workaround:
No workaround, problem is cosmetic.
Fix:
The fix for the defect results in no longer declaring an otherwise supported optics module as unsupported when bundling is configured disabled on the interface.
627898 : TMM leaks memory in the ECM subsystem
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
TMM leaks memory in the ECM subsystem.
Conditions:
This issue occurs when the user has imported one or more SSL certificates onto the system and named them in such a way that the "ca-bundle.crt" string appears in their names. For example, "my-ca-bundle.crt". With this configuration in place, TMM leaks memory each time the configuration is modified.
Impact:
TMM will run out of free memory. This will initially impact traffic and could eventually lead to TMM crashing. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
You can work around this issue by renaming your SSL certificates so that their names don't contain the "ca-bundle.crt" string.
Fix:
TMM no longer leaks memory in the ECM subsystem.
627798 : Buffer length check for quota bucket objects
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
For quota bucket (Rating Groups) object, BIG-IP allocates a large buffer locally, and doesn't expect it to be over-run as the objects are expected to be smaller
Conditions:
Any quota bucket objects which are being inserted in PEM database
Impact:
For quota bucket objects which are in PEM database, the buffer is usually large enough, so there should not be any impact. But if the quota bucket ever gets larger, then potential corruption of the quota bucket information could occur. This could trigger a tmm core. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
quota bucket with fewer rules
627616 : CCR-U missing upon VALIDITY TIMER expiry when quota is zero
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
CCR-U is not sent upon VALIDITY TIMER experts.
Conditions:
If PCRF does not grant any GSU (no quota), but only specifies the VALIDITY timer.
Impact:
OCS does not get the CCR-U message and misses the information about quota.
Workaround:
Configure the quota deletion of depletion timeout to be non-zero.
Fix:
CCR-U is now sent upon VALIDITY TIMER experts.
627433 : HSB transmitter failure on i2x00 and i4x00 platforms
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
On the BIG-IP i2x00 and i4x00 platforms, tmm enters an infinite 'restart' loop after a 'bigstart restart' or 'bigstart restart tmm' command if traffic is actively flowing through the TMM. This is the result of an HSB transmitter failure.
Conditions:
Traffic actively flowing through the tmm and you issue 'bigstart restart' or 'bigstart restart tmm'.
Another instance occurs when syncing the datasync-global-dg device-group for an HA configuration on iSeries platforms.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Ensure all traffic is stopped before issuing the 'bigstart restart' or 'bigstart restart tmm' commands.
Set HSB::failures_before_reset in /config/tmm_init.tcl to a high value, such as 1000 (default is 50) may resolve the issue, depending on the conditions this issue occurred.
Fix:
TMM restart loop no longer occurs following 'bigstart restart' on i2x00 and i4x00 platforms.
627403 : HTTP2 can can crash tmm when stats is updated on aborting of a new connection
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
HTTP2 allocates a block of memory for collecting stats on a connection. If the connection is aborted for any reason, tmm may try to update stats prior the memory is allocated.
Conditions:
HTTP2 profile is configured and assigned to a virtual.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
A fix stops HTTP2 from accessing stats prior memory is allocated preventing TMM crash for this reason.
627384 : eamtest tool fails with Segmentation fault after initialization.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Tests done with eamtest tool fail with Segmentation fault after initialization.
Conditions:
Run eamtest tool.
Impact:
eamtest tool fails, which affects troubleshooting using the tool.
Workaround:
Run eamtest with LD_PRELOAD=libeam_asdk_preload.so prefix.
Fix:
Wrapper script for eamtest tool now adds the =libeam_asdk_preload.so prefix automatically, so eamtest tool can be used to troubleshoot successfully.
627360 : Upgrade fails with "DBD::mysql::db do failed: Too many partitions (including subpartitions) were defined" errors in ASM log★
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
These errors come up in asm log, upon first start after upgrade:
-------------------------
2016-11-02T08:33:09-06:00 localhost notice boot_marker : ---===[ HD1.2 - BIG-IP 12.1.1 Build 0.0.184 <HD1.2> ]===---
Nov 2 08:35:34 c5af5ltm1b info set_ibdata1_size.pl[18523]: Setting ibdata1 size finished successfully, a new size is: 8466M
Nov 2 08:36:03 c5af5ltm1b info tsconfig.pl[21351]: ASM initial configration script launched
Nov 2 08:36:17 c5af5ltm1b info tsconfig.pl[21351]: ASM initial configration script finished
Nov 2 08:36:23 c5af5ltm1b info asm_start[19802]: ASM config loaded
Nov 2 08:37:40 c5af5ltm1b crit perl[19802]: 01310027:2: ASM subsystem error (asm_start,F5::DbUpgrade::__ANON__): DBD::mysql::db do failed: Too many partitions (including subpartitions) were defined
Nov 2 08:38:28 c5af5ltm1b crit perl[19802]: 01310027:2: ASM subsystem error (asm_start,F5::DbUpgrade::__ANON__): DBD::mysql::db do failed: Cannot remove all partitions, use DROP TABLE instead
Nov 2 08:38:28 c5af5ltm1b crit perl[19802]: 01310027:2: ASM subsystem error (asm_start,F5::ConfigSync::load_traffic_data): Could not import table data PRX.REQUEST_LOG - ASM configuration save aborted
Nov 2 08:38:33 c5af5ltm1b info perl[21860]: 01310053:6: ASM starting
-------------------------
Conditions:
ASM provisioned
Local request logging enabled
Upgrade of a maintenance release, HF or EHF
Impact:
Upgrade fails
Workaround:
Upgrade by the means of saving a UCS, performing a clean install and then loading the UCS.
In the manual save/load UCS process, the upgrade of the Request Log can be disabled, which will workaround the error and the UCS will load fine.
There are two options to disable the upgrade of the Request Log, when upgrading by the means of a UCS:
-------------------
1) do not load a Request Log, when loading a UCS:
# tmsh modify sys db ucs.asm.traffic_data.load value never
2) do not save a Request Log, when saving a UCS:
# tmsh modify sys db ucs.asm.traffic_data.save value disable
-------------------
627341 : TMUI loginProviderName is invalid when requesting a REST token
Component: Device Management
Symptoms:
Requests for X-F5-Auth-Token fail when a TMUI view is loaded that requires a X-F5-Auth-Token used for REST requests.
Conditions:
On startup if the tmos login provider takes too long to become available it will cause the login provider to be unavailable, and requests for auth tokens will fail. This is a race condition and happens intermittently. Typically on lower end devices.
Impact:
GUI cannot retrieve F5-Auth-Token for REST requests
Workaround:
bigstart restart restjavad
Fix:
Added retry to add login provider if unavailable.
627279 : Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes.
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
tmm on a blade may crash during a CMP and PEM change.
Conditions:
Multi-blade chassis undergoing a CMP state change. Additionally requires PEM policy changes resulting in usage record updates.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Use an HA pair and have the active chassis fail over during a CMP state change. Allow for the new stand by chassis to complete its CMP state change activity.
Fix:
Handle sessionDB failures gracefully.
627257 : Potential PEM crash during a Gx operation
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
Tmm may core during a Gx operation
Conditions:
Requires a PEM virtual with Gx, Sd or Gy enabled. This occurs when tmm starts.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Perform proper validation checks as part of API processing.
627246 : TMM memory leak when ASM policy configured on virtual
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM memory leak in hud_oob when ASM policy configured on virtual server.
Conditions:
Memory leak could be observed via output of this TMSH command:
tmctl -c memory_usage_stat | grep -P '^name|hud_oob'
when ASM policy is configured on a virtual server. However this condition is not unique.
Impact:
TMM might run out of memory and eventually crash.
Workaround:
Try to disable ASM policy configuration on virtual server.
Fix:
A memory leak in hud_oob when ASM policy configured on virtual server has been fixed.
627214 : BGP ECMP recursive default route not redistributed to TMM
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
ECMP recursive routes are not properly redistributed to TMM, resulting in an incorrect routing table.
Conditions:
Dynamic routing configured with multiple equal cost paths reachable through a recursive nexthop.
Impact:
Packets are not routed to all ECMP nexthops.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
ECMP routes with a recursive nexthop are now used correctly by TMM.
627117 : crash with wrong ceritifcate in WSS
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
BD crash.
Conditions:
Web services security is turned on.
a bad / wrong / missing certificate is attached.
Impact:
Traffic drop until the BD is back (or failover).
Workaround:
The workaround would be to fix the attached certificate.
Fix:
Fix an issue with wrong certificates.
626721 : "reset-stats auth login-failures" command for unknown users causes secondary mcpd processes to restart
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Running the command "tmsh reset-stats auth login-failures <username>" on a bladed system can cause the mcpd process to restart on secondary blades if the <username> is not an actual user on the system. The /var/log/ltm log file will contain errors messages similar to:
Configuration error: Configuration from primary failed validation: 01020036:3: The requested username (username) was not found.... failed validation with error 16908342
Conditions:
This occurs on VIPRION systems when running the command for a user that doesn't exist on the other blades.
Impact:
mcpd processes on secondary blades restart, possibly causing loss of traffic and a failover (if in a device cluster).
Workaround:
Run the command "tmsh reset-stats auth login-failure <username>" using only valid usernames.
Fix:
Prevented the command "tmsh reset-stats auth login-failure <username>" from restarting mcpd instances on secondary blades when <username> is an unknown user. The bad command is intercepted at the primary blade and is dealt with there.
626542 : Unable to set maxMessageBodySize in iControl REST after upgrade★
Component: Device Management
Symptoms:
After upgrading and attempting to set maxMessageBodySize via iControl REST, you get an error indicating the command is not implemented:
{"code":400,"message":"onPut Not implemented","originalRequestBody":"{\"maxMessageBodySize\": \"111111111\"}","referer":"127.0.0.1","restOperationId":216941,"kind":":resterrorresponse"}
Conditions:
This occurs when upgrading from v11.6.1 to v12.1.0, v12.1.1,or v12.1.2, and applying the UCS from the 11.6.1 release. The error is generated because new defaults were added but they are not set on UCS restore.
Impact:
Command fails, unable to set maxMessageBodySize.
Workaround:
If you encounter this after an upgrade and UCS restore, you can run the following commands from the BIG-IP command line:
1. curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8100/shared/storage?key=shared/server/messaging/settings/8100.
2. bigstart restart restjavad.
Fix:
You can now set maxMessageBodySize via iControl REST after upgrading.
626438 : Frame is not showing in the browser and/ or an error appears
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
frame going blank when ASM policy enabled. this will trigger the following JS error in clients console:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '3' of undefined
Conditions:
Asm policy enabled. Device id is enabled theough one of the supporting features
Impact:
Site not operating correctly.
Workaround:
N/a
Fix:
Fixed device id javascript issue that prevented a frame from being displayed .
626434 : tmm may be killed by sod when a hardware accelerator does not work
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
tmm may hang and crash (killed by the switchover daemon, sod), when the Cavium hardware accelerator does not come back after the reset from the driver.
Conditions:
This is a rarely seen occurrence. It is triggered when the Cavium hardware accelerator stops working.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Power cycling the system might correct the error.
Fix:
The system now prints out an error message in the log file, improving the way tmm handles the failure.
626360-1 : TMM may crash when processing HTTP2 traffic
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases TMM may crash when processing HTTP2 traffic.
Conditions:
A virtual configured with HTTP2 and ClientSSL profiles
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Improve HTTP2 processing.
626141 : DNSX Performance Graphs are not displaying Requests/sec"
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The DNSX Performance graphs have a X and Y axis of Requests/second but the data actually shows total requests.
Conditions:
Always.
Impact:
The data displayed in the graph is not correct.
626106 : LTM Policy with illegal rule name loses its conditions and actions during upgrade★
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
BIG-IP version 12.0.0 introduced more strict checking on the characters allowed in policy and rule names, and it also introduced an auto-migration feature to convert any disallowed characters to an underscore (_). Allowed characters in policy and rule names are:
A-Z a-z 0-9 . / : % -
Spaces are allowed between these characters.
When there is a pre-v12.0 Policy that contains an illegal character, the rule has each illegal character converted to a legal one. But conditions and actions, which are joined to the rule by name were not similarly adjusted. After migration, LTM Policy rule does not have any conditions or actions referring to its new name.
Conditions:
- Pre-v12.0 BIG-IP
- Policy and/or rule names contain illegal characters like: * < > ( ) [ ]
- Upgrade to v12.0 or later
Impact:
Policy rule name is changed, illegal characters converted to benign underscore (_). The upgraded configuration will load successfully, but the Rule's associated conditions and actions are not changed, and still point to the policy by its former name, effectively becoming orphaned. Inspecting rule using UI or tmsh shows conditions and actions missing.
Workaround:
The bigip.conf file can be manually edited to fix illegal characters and configuration reloaded.
625832 : A false positive modified domain cookie violation
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
An unexpected modified domain cookie violation on system that has more than 127 policies configured.
Conditions:
This occurs when more than 127 policies are configured. The violation modified domain cookie is turned on and there are enforced cookies.
Impact:
A false positive violation.
Workaround:
Remove the modified domain cookie violation from blocking.
Fix:
Fixed a false positive modified domain cookie violation.
625824 : iControl calls related to key and certificate management (Management::KeyCertificate) might leak memory
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
iControl calls related to Management::KeyCertificate might leak memory slowly, that causes swap space to increase continuously and might lead to exhaustion of swap space
Conditions:
This occurs with the iControl command bigip.Management.KeyCertificate.certificate_export_to_pem
Impact:
iControlPortal.cgi memory increases
Workaround:
Restart httpd to reload the iControl daemon.
Fix:
Fixed a memory leak associated with iControl
625784-1 : TMM crash on BigIP i4x00 and i2x00 with large ASM configuration.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
With large ASM configurations (50 virtual servers, 50 ASM policies), TMM will continuously crash on boot-up or restart.
Conditions:
Large ASM configurations (50 virtual servers, 50 ASM policies).
Impact:
TMM continuously crashes and restarts, system is unusable.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
None
625703-3 : SELinux: snmpd is denied access to tmstat files
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When a custom SNMP MIB is created by using Tcl scripts or other methods, the snmpwalk will fail to access the created MIB data.
Conditions:
Custom created MIBs.
Impact:
Access to that MIB is denied.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
When a custom SNMP MIB is created by using a Tcl scripts or other methods, the snmpwalk no longer fails to access the created MIB data.
625671 : The diagnostic tool dnsxdump may crash with non-standard DNS RR types.
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
If the dnsxdump diagnostic tool is run when the DNS Express database has a DNS resource record using a non-standard type, the process may crash providing incomplete diagnostic output.
Conditions:
Running dnsxdump with a DNS Express database containing non-standard resource record types.
Impact:
dnsxdump provide incomplete diagnostic output, stopping on the zone containing the resource record with the non-standard type.
Workaround:
This is primarily known to be caused by non-standard RR types created for WINS records. Removing the WINS records from the master nameserver, will allow dnsxdump to work again after the next zone transfer.
Fix:
dnsxdump handles non-standard resource record types.
625542-3 : SIP ALG with Translation fails for REGISTER refresh.
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
SIP-MBLB-ALG-Translation mode doesn't translate SIP REGISTER refresh message when arriving on the original flow.
Conditions:
1. LSN Pool selected on CLIENT_ACCEPTED event.
2. SIP REGISTER request refresh happens on the original flow.
Impact:
SIP Register message egressed will not have translation applied i.e. the CONTACT and VIA header will not be translated.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
SIP REGISTER refresh processing identifies the translation used for the original SIP REGISTER and applies that translation to the SIP REGISTER refresh message.
625523 : CAPTCHA Challenge on Edge 14 Browser when Proactive Bot Defense is enabled
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
The Edge 14 browser on Windows 10 will receive the CAPTCHA challenge when Proactive Bot Defense is enabled on the DoS profile and the "Block requests from suspicious browsers" checkbox is enabled.
Conditions:
Proactive Bot Defense is enabled on the DoS profile and the "Block requests from suspicious browsers" checkbox is enabled.
Impact:
Edge 14 browser gets CAPTCHA challenge instead of passing through to the server.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
The Edge 14 Browser no longer gets the CAPTCHA challenge when Proactive Bot Defense is enabled.
625505 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2181
Vulnerability Solution Article: K59298921
625474 : POST request body is not saved in session variable by access when request is sent using edge client
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
POST body sent by Edge Client is not saved in the session db session variable by access hudfilter.
Conditions:
- Configure BIG-IP as SAML Service Provider. To simplify reproduction change Access Policy execution timeout to few seconds.
- Use Edge Client to connect to BIG-IP.
- Saml Agent will redirect user for authentication to IdP
- Wait for few seconds for access policy to time out on BIG-IP.
- Enter credentials/complete authentication on IdP
- User will be redirected back to BIG-IP as SP. At this moment APM will create a new session, and will evaluate access policy again.
Impact:
SAML Agent will now fail with the following error:
SAML Agent: <AgentNameHere> cannot find assertion information in SAML request
Workaround:
Removing the ‘Origin’ header from the request with iRule does fix the issue, and the POST body becomes available to access hudfilter.
Fix:
Check for receipt of HUDEVT_REQUEST_DONE before falling through from EV_ACCESS_TCL_COMPLETION to EV_ACCESS_REQUEST_DONE in client wait for request body to ensure proper storage of POST request body in sessiondb.
625456 : Pending sector utility may write repaired sector incorrectly
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When the pendsect process detects a pending sector and performs a repair of that sector, incorrect data may be written to an incorrect location on the hard disk.
This may result in corruption of files on the BIG-IP volume that may not be detected for an indeterminate period of time after the pending sector was repaired.
When a pending sector is repaired, a message similar to the following is logged to :
warning pendsect[17377]: Recovered Pending LBA:#########
(where ######### is the Logical Block Address of the repaired sector)
For more information on the pendsect utility, see:
SOL14426: Hard disk error detection and correction improvements
Conditions:
This may occur on BIG-IP appliances or VIPRION blades which contain hard disks which use 4096-byte physical sectors.
Currently-known affected platforms include:
BIG-IP 5000-/7000-series appliances
BIG-IP 10000-series appliances
VIPRION B4300 blades
VIPRION B2100 blades
Due to manufacturing changes and RMA replacements, additional platforms may potentially be affected.
The smartctl utility can be used to identify hard disks using 4096-byte physical sectors:
# smartctl --scan
/dev/sda -d scsi # /dev/sda, SCSI device
# smartctl -i /dev/sda | grep "Sector Size"
Affected:
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Not Affected:
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Impact:
Potential corruption of unknown files on BIG-IP volumes.
625392 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2179
Vulnerability Solution Article: K23512141
625376 : In some cases, download of PAC file by edge client may fail
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Edge client may fail to download PAC file and incorrectly apply proxy configuration after VPN connection.
Conditions:
- User machine proxy configuration points to a proxy auto configuration file.
- Network access proxy configuration points to a proxy auto configuration file.
- PAC file URI in either case has uppercase characters.
- PAC file is hosted on a server where resource names are case sensitive.
Impact:
PAC file download will fail and client will use incorrect proxy settings due to unavailability of PAC file.
Workaround:
Use only lowercase characters in PAC file URI.
Fix:
Now Edge client can download PAC files from URIs that have uppercase as well as lowercase characters.
625372 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2179
Vulnerability Solution Article: K23512141
625291 : dhclient doesn't honor 'interface-mtu' request-options
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Requesting MTU value from DHCP server is explicitly disabled using a configuration similar to the following:
tmsh modify sys management-dhcp sys-mgmt-dhcp-config request-options delete { interface-mtu }.
But if DHCP send MTU value in its reply, this MTU will be configured on BIG-IP management interface.
Conditions:
DHCP server ignoring option sent by BIG-IP DHCP client.
Impact:
BIG-IP accepts the MTU value provided.
Workaround:
1. Add supersede interface-mtu 1500; to interface "mgmt" section of the /etc/dhclient.conf file.
2. Restart dhclient.
Fix:
dhclient now honors 'interface-mtu' request-options.
625275 : Unable to add and modify URL parameters containing square brackets "[]" in FPS GUI
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
When trying to add URL parameters containing square brackets "[]" in FPS GUI >> URL the parameters name become "0". If trying to modify, the parameters are not saved.
Conditions:
Provision FPS
Create URL
Impact:
FPS GUI
Workaround:
via tmsh, an example:
tmsh modify security anti-fraud profile criteria urls modify { /xml.php { parameters add { "mouse\[2]" } } }
Fix:
It is now possible to add parameters containing square brackets in FPS GUI.
625198 : TMM might crash when TCP DSACK is enabled
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crashes
Conditions:
All of the below are required to see this behavior:
DSACK is enabled
MPTCP, rate-pace, tail-loss-probe, and fast-open are disabled.
cmetrics-cache-timeout is set to zero; congestion control is high-speed, new-reno, reno, or scalable; AND Nagle is not set to 'auto'.
an iRule exists that changes any of the conditions above besides DSACK.
various client packet combinations interact in certain ways with the iRule logic.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Change any of the conditions above.
Fix:
TCP maintains state appropriately to avoid crash.
625172 : tmm crashes when classification is enabled and ftp traffic is flowing trough the box
Component: Traffic Classification Engine
Symptoms:
tmm crash
Conditions:
1. classification profile attached to the virtual server
2. ftp traffic flows through the system
3. complex configuration with iRules and multiple modules enabled
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
remove classification profile from the virtual server
Fix:
Incorrect memory management in one of classification matching mechanisms led to a crash.
625159 : Policy sync status not shown on standby device in HA case
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
After policy sync, policy sync statuses are not shown in admin GUI on standby device in a failover device group.
Conditions:
- Create a failover device group whose members are in a bigger sync-only device group for policy.
- Initiate a policy sync from an active device
- Check policy sync stats on standby device
Impact:
It does not affect sync functionality and user still can see the sync status on an active device.
Workaround:
Check sync status on an active device in the group.
Fix:
User will be able to see the sync statuses on a standby device, including itself as well as the list of devices in the whole sync-only group where sync is performed.
624903 : Zero length SSL records improperly processed with AES-GCM on 2000s/2200s, 4000s/4200v, B4450 platforms
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If a 2000s/2200s, 4000s/4200v, B4450 platform negotiates an AES-GCM SSL connection and is given an SSL record with a zero length plaintext payload, it will improperly process it, resulting in a bad record.
Conditions:
AES-GCM SSL record with a zero length plaintext payload on the BIG-IP 2000s/2200s, 4000s/4200v, B4450 platform.
Impact:
Bad record errors.
Fix:
AES-GCM SSL records with zero length plaintext will no longer result in a bad record.
624846 : TCP Fast Open does not work for Responses < 1 MSS
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
BIG-IP does not send the data until receiving the first client ACK.
Conditions:
TCP Fast Open requests an object of less than 1 MSS in size.
Fast open and delayed acks enabled.
Impact:
Delayed completion of the connection.
Workaround:
Disable delayed acks.
Fix:
TCP sends SYN/ACK immediately after receiving the SYN, and the response as soon as it arrives from the server.
624831 : BWC: tmm crash can occur if dynamic BWC policy is used at max-user-rate over 2gbps
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
tmm crashes while using Bandwidth Control (BWC) dynamic policies.
Conditions:
max-user-rate is set at 2gbps or higher.
Impact:
tmm crashes. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Use a maximum of 1gbps for dynamic BWC policy max-user-rate.
Fix:
tmm crashes while using Bandwidth Control (BWC) dynamic policies with max-user-rate set at 2gbps or higher.
Behavior Change:
no
624826 : mgmt bridge takes HWADDR of guest vm's tap interface
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
MGMT interface becomes unreachable and stops responding to traffic. Whenever guest is in provisioned state MAC address assigned to mgmt is correct (taken from base MAC). Whenever guest is in deployed state MAC address on host mgmt interface changes and is exactly the same as mgmt_vm_tap MAC.
Conditions:
The platform shipped with a "low" F5 base_mac
A Linux bridge by default takes as its mac the lowest mac of its constituent interfaces. This did not cause a problem before because F5 Networks systems' baseMacs have historically been "low", e.g., with legacy_baseMacs in {00:01:D7, 00:0A:49, 00:23:E9}.
When a guest tap interface is added to the mgmt bridge, the bridge takes its Linux default action, which is to take as its mac the lowest mac address of its constituent interfaces. With the comparison min(eth0's mac, guestTap's mac) returning guestTap's mac, the mgmt bridge incorrectly assumes a guestTapIntfc mac.
Impact:
Connectivity to the vCMP host platform is lost when the guest is deployed.
Workaround:
Use ifconfig to ensure that the mac address of the mgmt bridge never changes from eth0. For example, the following command sets as the mac of this bridge, the value passed in Mac.
ifconfig <bridgeName= mgmt> hw ether <Mac of Eth0>
Note: This assumes that eth0 will always be contained in the mgmt bridge.
Fix:
The system now uses ifconfig to assign the mac of interface eth0 to bridge mgmt.
624744 : Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes.
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
Potential TMM crash resulting in flows being impacted.
Conditions:
A multi-blade chassis with PEM needs to undergo a CMP state change with flows on the active blade.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
NULL check has been added prior to calling a callback for asynchronous handling.
624733 : Potential crash in a multi-blade chassis during CMP state changes.
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
Potential TMM crash resulting in flows being impacted.
Conditions:
A multi-blade chassis with PEM needs to undergo a CMP state change with flows on the active blade.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
NULL check has been added to facilitate a graceful failure during asynchronous handling.
624616 : Safenet uninstall is unable to remove libgem.so
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When uninstalling Safenet client 6.2 from a BIG-IP chassis, it can't remove libgem.so and generates the following error:
rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib64/openssl/engines/libgem.so': Read-only file system.
Conditions:
This can be triggered when uninstalling the safenet client using the command safenet-sync.sh -u.
Impact:
Uninstall is unable to complete.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
When uninstalling Safenet client 6.2 from a BIG-IP chassis, the system can now remove libgem.so, so there is no error condition, and uninstall can complete as expected.
624570 : BIND vulnerability CVE-2016-8864
Vulnerability Solution Article: K35322517
624526 : TMM core in mptcp
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When MPTCP is enabled on a virtual server, TMM may generate a core file and restart.
Conditions:
MPTCP must be in use.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Disable MPTCP.
Fix:
Prevented TMM core.
624459 : Linux privilege-escalation vulnerability (Dirty COW) CVE-2016-5195
Vulnerability Solution Article: K10558632
624404 : Missing warning when typing current volume during a hotfix installation★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When installing a hotfix, typing the current volume throws no warning.
Conditions:
Typing the current volume.
Impact:
Cosmetic, the installation doesn't continue.
Workaround:
Do not select the current volume when installing a hotfix.
Fix:
A warning message is displayed when typing current volume during a hotfix installation.
624370 : tmm crash during classification hitless upgrade if virtual server configuration is modified
Component: Traffic Classification Engine
Symptoms:
tmm crash
Conditions:
1. classification hitless upgrade is triggered
2. pending (not saved) changes on any of the virtual servers
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Change of virtual server configuration triggers new library to be loaded during upgrade which wasn't expected by hitless upgrade mechanism and led to tmm crash. This is fixed in versions starting with 12.1.2.
624361 : Responses to some of the challenge JS are not zipped.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Performance is affected on the JS challenge.
Conditions:
The following is turned on in the application dos configuration :
CS challenge, or PBD challenge when Suspicious browsers are disabled or the Device-ID challenge.
Impact:
1. These responses consume more CPU and more Bandwidth than needed.
2. Client-side latency is degraded.
3. More disk space is utilized than needed
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Some of the JS challenge have better performance now.
624263 : 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
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
For profiles, iControl REST does not provide visibility for profile property override when "none" is specified, including references, passwords, and array of strings.
Conditions:
-- Use iControl REST API.
-- string, enum, or vector of enum/string property explicitly set to "none" for a component within any REST API endpoint specialized in /etc/icrd.conf.
Impact:
The iControl REST API response skips these elements. iControl REST does not provide visibility for profile property overrides.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
iControl REST API now returns elements (i.e., string, enum, or vector of enum/string property that is explicitly set to "none" for a component within any REST API endpoint specialized in /etc/icrd.conf) with a value "none". The exclusion to this policy is the secured attributes. Secured attributes are always excluded from the iControl REST API response.
624228 : Memory leak when using insert action in pem rule and flow gets aborted
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
Memory keeps increasing in PEM after several hours of live service.
Conditions:
Insert action in pem rule and response spawning multiple segments. Connection gets aborted midway.
Impact:
Connections can get reset once memory usage increases beyond threshold
Fix:
free xfrags when aborting flows
624193-3 : Topology load balancing improvement
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
Under certain conditions, load balancing decisions can result in an unequal or unexpected distribution.
Conditions:
Occurs when topology load balancing is used for a wide IP and more than one pool share the highest assigned score for a particular load balancing decision.
Impact:
The resulting load balancing decisions can lead to an unequal or unexpected distribution of pool selections.
Workaround:
Topology records and pools can be configured to avoid the conditions which cause the condition.
Fix:
A system DB variable, gtm.wideiptoporandom, has been added. When this system DB variable is assigned the value of "enable" and more than one pool shares the highest assigned score for a given load balancing decision, a random pool is selected.
624023 : TMM cores in iRule when accessing a SIP header that has no value
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
When used an iRule to access a SIP header attribute with no value, TMM cores.
Conditions:
Use iRule to access the value of SIP message header attribute with no value.
Eg:
"Supported: " IEOL
"Session-Expires:" IEOL
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
No Workaround.
Fix:
Fix includes adjusting the buffer offset properly to handle the empty header attributes while parsing the SIP message.
623940 : SSL Handshake fails if client tries to negotiate EC ciphers but does not present ec_point_formats extension in ClientHello
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If client tries to negotiate EC ciphers but does not present ec_point_formats extension, SSL handshake fails.
The ltm error log message looks like:
*****************************************************
Oct 12 11:25:08 gtm2 warning tmm1[21167]: 01260009:4: Connection error: ssl_select_suite:6799: no shared ciphers (40)
Oct 12 11:25:08 gtm2 warning tmm1[21167]: 01260026:4: No shared ciphers between SSL peers 10.1.6.50.36563:10.1.6.15.443.
*****************************************************
Conditions:
If client tries to negotiate EC ciphers but does not present ec_point_formats extension, SSL handshake fails.
Impact:
SSL Handshake fails.
623930 : vCMP guests with vlangroups may loop packets internally
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
If a vlangroup is configured within a vCMP guest, under some circumstances unicast packets may be looped between the switchboard and the BIG-IP guest. This is most likely to occur when the guest is part of an HA pair.
Conditions:
vCMP guest, vlangroups.
Impact:
High CPU utilization and potentially undelivered packets.
Workaround:
Correctly configure proxy ARP excludes on the vlangroup and increase the FDB timeout by setting the vlan.fdb.timeout database key to a larger value such as 3600.
Fix:
Packets are no longer looped between vlangroup children on vCMP guests.
623927 : Flow entry memory leaked after DHCP DORA process
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
After DHCP discover/offer/request/ack process (DORA), client side connection flow entry memory is not freed.
Conditions:
Run the DHCP DORA process through BIG-IP (in relay mode or forwarding mode, and wait for client connection flow entry ages out.
Impact:
The system leaks flow entry memory. Over a long period of time, system memory will eventually run out.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
After DHCP discover/offer/request/ack process (DORA), client side connection flow entry memory is now freed, so no memory leak occurs.
623922 : TMM failure in PEM while processing Service-Provider Disaggregation
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
TMM failure in PEM while processing Service-Provider Disaggregation.
Conditions:
System crashes when traffic flows and rules get executed on the flow.
Impact:
System crashes.
Workaround:
Set Service-Provider Disaggregation to sp as suggested by documentation.
Fix:
There is no longer a TMM failure in PEM while processing Service-Provider Disaggregation.
623779 : Adding a client side challenge whitelist URL wildcard list
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
There is no way to tell that a URL wildcard is always qualified for client side challenges. Thus dynamic URLs system can't use the CS defense to dos attack or the proactive bot defense.
Conditions:
dynamic URLs are running in a dos attack and the system has cs mitigation enabled.
Impact:
the cs mitigation is not effective and the dos mitigation moves to the rate limit.
Workaround:
N/A
623562 : Large POSTs rejected after policy already completed
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When the policy has already completed, access still rejects POSTs greater than 64k. Client will see a reset, and these error messages will appear on the BIG-IP:
/var/log/ltm
Oct 18 19:10:04 bigip6 err tmm[14242]: 01230140:3: RST sent from 10.2.61.80:8080 to 10.2.61.10:55280, [0x1d4cb2c:2863] APM HTTP body too big
/var/log/apm
Oct 19 09:42:37 bigip3922mgmt err tmm1[7636]: 01490514:3: (null):Common:00000000: Access encountered error: ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED. File: ../modules/hudfilter/access/access.c, Function: hud_access_process_ingress, Line: 2960
Conditions:
Policy has already been fully evaluated to allow. Then the client sends a large POST. Only applies to POSTs made to '/'. Would not apply if the URL is something else like '/test'. Also does not apply to clientless modes, where the db key tmm.access.maxrequestbodysize can be used to increase the maximum POST body size allowed.
Impact:
Clients are unable to send POST bodies to '/' that are larger than 64kb, even though the policy has already been evaluated to allow.
Workaround:
Move the resource from '/' to another URL.
Fix:
The logic of '/' in this area was changed to be consistent with other URLs.
623518 : Unable to add users in User Enforcement list under user-defined partition. Update check fails in user-defined partition
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
If a profile is assigned to a user-defined partition, it is not possible to add users to User Enforcement list.
Also, if a user-defined partition is selected, the GUI will not display a message if a there are available signatures/engine updates.
Conditions:
Provision and license FPS.
Create user-defined partition.
Impact:
You are unable to manage the profile in the user-defined partition.
Workaround:
Use tmsh to add users.
Fix:
Users can be added to User Enforcement list and a message will be displayed if a new update is available.
623514 : Duplicate ASM Policies Appear in GUI
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
After upgrade multiple entries with the same policy name appeared in the ASM policy list.
Conditions:
A system where multiple Policy history entries exist with the same revision number for the same policy undergoes upgrade.
It is not clear how a device gets into this state.
Impact:
This appears to be a display issue only, and does not affect enforcement or performance.
There are no actual duplicate policies in the system, the GUI is only displaying two rows for the affected policies.
REST is also affected, which will cause problems for BIG-IQ management of a device that encountered this error.
Workaround:
To repair the state for that policy, make a minor change in an affected policy (e.g., updating the Description), and then run Apply Policy.
Fix:
ASM now correctly displays one entry per policy.
623491 : After receiving the first Gx response from the PCRF, the BWC action against a rule is lost.
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
The BWC action against a rule is lost and the traffic flow is capped at the maximum bandwidth configured in the BWC policy.
Conditions:
A flow should be associated with a PEM rule that has atleast a BWC action along with a Gx reporting action.
Impact:
The traffic flow is not capped by the correct BWC action, instead it is capped by the maximum configured bandwidth in the BWC policy.
Fix:
The BWC policy is restored correctly after a policy update.
623401 : Intermittent OCSP request failures due to non-optimal default TCP profile setting
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The connection between BIG-IP and OCSP responder is not reliable since it uses the default internal TCP configuration which doesn't fit the usage well.
Conditions:
When the OCSP stapling option is enabled in the clientSSL profile that is in use by a virtual server.
Impact:
The BIG-IP as a SSL server fails to staple the OCSP response to the SSL client. In other words, the certificate status messages are not added in the Server Hello message in the TLS handshakes to the SSL client.
Workaround:
The fix proposed an optimal TCP configuration used by the connection between BIG-IP and OCSP responder which makes the connection reliable now. Therefore the virtual server can now always correctly staple the certificate status in the Server Hello message to the SSL client.
623391 : cpcfg cannot copy a UCS file to a volume set with a root filesystem that has less free space than the total UCS size★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
cpcfg fails with errors similar to:
Getting configuration from HD1.2
info: Copying configuration to HD1.1
info: Applying configuration to HD1.1
info: >++++ result:
info: Extracting manifest: /var/local/ucs/config.ucs
info: /: Not enough free space info: 739487744 bytes required
info: 259965952 bytes available
info: /var/local/ucs/config.ucs: Not enough free disk space to install!
info: Operation aborted.
Conditions:
Use cpcfg for a UCS that is larger than free space on root filesystem of target volume set.
Impact:
You cannot use cpcfg to copy a UCS file to a volume set with a root filesystem that has less free space than the total UCS size
Workaround:
Run the below to fix /etc/mtab on target (HD1.3 is used in this example; substitute the correct target volume) before cpcfg:
- volumeset -f mount HD1.3
- grep HD1.3 /proc/mounts | sed 's_/mnt/HD1.3_/_g;s_//_/_g' > /mnt/HD1.3/etc/mtab
- volumeset -f umount HD1.3
Fix:
cpcfg could incorrectly calculate the amount of free space required, refusing to do the copy unless the / filesystem on the target volume had sufficient space to do the copy (not taking into account /config, /usr, /var, and other filesystems). This has been resolved and this free space calculation is done correctly.
623336 : After an upgrade, the old installation's CA bundle may be used instead of the one that comes with the new version of TMOS★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When installing a new version of TMOS, the installer will choose the bundle by looking at the current installation and what came with the target version, choosing the newer one. This check is performed incorrectly, and the old bundle may accidentally be chosen.
Conditions:
This happens when /config/ssl/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt in the old version contains an RCS revision number near the top of the file, and the newer TMOS version does not contain a revision number. (This is a change in the format of the file generated by the organization providing F5 with this bundle.)
Impact:
Upgrades to versions that ship the "non-RCS" files will incorrectly retain the ca-bundle.crt from the previous version, instead of keeping the newer version that shipped with those versions.
This can result in certificate verification failures (e.g. for an OCSP stapling profile), or a BIG-IP creating an inconsistent/incomplete certificate chain for a virtual server.
Workaround:
On every device affected by this, or on every blade in a VIPRION system affected by this:
1. Update /config/ssl/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt with the version that ships with this software version:
cp /usr/share/defaults/fs/config/ssl/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt.rpmbackup /config/ssl/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt
2. Reboot the system and clear the MCPD binary database. Refer to SOL13030, but essentially:
touch /service/mcpd/forceload && reboot
3. After reboot, verify that the two files match (they should have the same checksum):
md5sum /usr/share/defaults/fs/config/ssl/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt.rpmbackup /config/ssl/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt
Fix:
When installing a new version of TMOS, the installer will choose the bundle by looking at the current installation and what came with the target version, choosing the newer one. This check was performed incorrectly, and the old bundle could accidentally have been chosen. This has been fixed, and the newer version of the file is correctly chosen.
623173 : unused error messages for SecurID
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
The following customization messages can be found at Access ›› Profiles / Policies : Customization : General
then on the left pane, click "text" and goto
customization settings -> access profiles -> <someAP> -> error messages -> securid prompt messages
SecurID authentication: unexpected error
SecurID authentication: invalid username
SecurID authentication: invalid passcode
SecurID authentication: invalid PIN
these messages can never be seen by end user, there is no need to customize them
Conditions:
some securid messages customized
Impact:
end user will never see messages regardless of customized the messages or default
Workaround:
workaround is not necessary, the module is functioning as designed. the only problem is - some extended error messages do not appear. end user only see "access denied" or "unknown error"
Fix:
messages are not available for customization
623037 : delete of pem session attribute does not work after a update
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
it will not be possible to delete the session attribute through rules.
Conditions:
rules with session attribute update & delete
Impact:
unable to delete session attribute
623023 : Unable to set DNS Topology Continent to Unknown via GUI
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
No option in dropdown menu to select Unknown Continent when configuring DNS Topology Record via GUI. Existing Topology Records will be displayed as "Continent is", instead of "Continent is Unknown".
Conditions:
Attempting to configure a DNS Topology Record via the GUI.
Impact:
Unable to set the Continent field to 'Unknown' via GUI.
Workaround:
Set the continent via tmsh using the command `create gtm topology ldns: continent -- server: continent --`
Fix:
The dropdown menu now has an option to select an "Unknown" Continent.
623019 : Disabling an interface when DDM is enabled may result in transmit power too low DDM mesages
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
messages in /var/log/ltm and their associated SNMP traps:
Oct 21 08:22:40 localhost err bcm56xxd[21079]: 012c0017:3: DDM interface:1.1 transmit power too low warning. Transmit power:0.0211 mWatts
or
Oct 21 08:04:25 localhost err bcm56xxd[19986]: 012c0018:3: DDM interface: 1.1 transmit power too low alarm. Transmit power:0.0206 mWatt
Conditions:
1 - DDM enabled
2 - optics that support DDM
3 - the interface is administratively disabled via tmsh or GUI
Impact:
cosmetic
Workaround:
Ignore DDM messages about transmit power on disabled ports. BIG-IP disables the transmit laser when interfaces are disabled to ensure the link does not come up. Some optics will consider that a DDM transmit power too low error.
622913 : Audit Log filled with constant change messages
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Frequent changes by Policy Builder fill the audit log too quickly and can affect viewing the Security Logs:
Error 502 Bad Gateway when clicking "Application Security" logs
Conditions:
Frequent Policy Builder changes occur and no ASM device group is configured.
Impact:
Disk space usage and errors viewing the Application Security logs
Workaround:
Workarounds:
1) Turn off "Recommend Sync when Policy is not applied". (Security ›› Options : Application Security : Preferences)
2) Enable ASM sync on a device group.
Fix:
Updates to the audit log are throttled at max 1/minute.
622877 : i2000 and i4000 series appliances may show intermittent DDM alarms/warnings at powerup that clear right away
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Messages like the following in /var/log/ltm:
Oct 14 12:22:26 localhost err pfmand[5637]: 01660011:3: DDM interface: 6.0 transmit power too low alarm. Transmit power:0.0515 mWatts
Oct 14 12:22:26 localhost err pfmand[5637]: 01660011:3: DDM interface:6.0 receive power too low alarm. Received power:0.0000 mWatts
Oct 14 12:23:29 localhost err pfmand[5637]: 01660013:3: DDM interface:6.0 transmit power too low alarm cleared
Oct 14 12:23:29 localhost err pfmand[5637]: 01660013:3: DDM interface:6.0 receive power too low alarm cleared
'
Conditions:
i2000 or i4000 series appliances with DDM enabled and a reboot or restart of the pfmand daemon
Impact:
No functional impact, these are not valid DDM alarms or warnings.
Workaround:
Ignore DDM errors that clear right away after powerup or pfmand restart.
Fix:
During DDM initialization clear any alarms or warnings cached in the hardware registers.
622790 : EdgeClient disconnect may take a lot of time when machine is moved to network with no connectivity to BIG-IP
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Edge Client takes a lot of time to disconnect when machine is moved to network with no connectivity to BIG-IP
Conditions:
* VPN is established
* Machine is moved to different network (with no BIG-IP) connectivity
* EdgeClient stays in "Disconnecting..." state for few minutes
Impact:
User have to wait until Disconnect procedure is complete
Fix:
Now Edge Client uses 5000msec timeout in order to complete logout HTTP request. This is enough in normal conditions
622662 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6306
Vulnerability Solution Article: K90492697
622495 : Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-5829
Vulnerability Solution Article: K28056114
622386 : Internet Explorer getting blocked when Web Scraping and Proactive Bot Defense are both enabled
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Internet Explorer browsers will get into an endless loop of requests, never reaching the back-end server, when accessing a Virtual Server which is enabled with both the Web Scraping feature, and the Proactive Bot Defense, if the mode of Proactive Bot Defense is set to During Attacks.
Conditions:
1. ASM Security Policy is attached to the Virtual Server, and has Web Scraping's Bot Detection set to Alarm & Block.
2. Within Web Scraping, both Fingerprint and Persistent Client Identification are disabled.
3. DoS profile is attached to the Virtual Server, and has Proactive Bot Defense set to During Attacks.
4. Users are using the Internet Explorer browser.
Impact:
Internet Explorer browser users are getting blocked from accessing the back-end server.
Workaround:
Two options for workaround:
1. Set Proactive Bot Defense to Always instead of During Attacks.
2. Enable either Fingerprint or Persistent Client Identification in the Web Scraping configuration.
Fix:
Internet Explorer users are no longer blocked when accessing a Virtual Server which has both Web Scraping enabled, and Proactive Bot Defense set to During Attacks.
622378 : Inconsistent hardware syncookie protection mode on B2100/B4300 blades and 5000/7000/10000 appliances
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
BIG-IP may enter a state where the software indicates it is not in syncookie protection mode for a virtual IP, but the FPGA is still in that mode.
Conditions:
This only occurs on the following platforms (B2100/B4300 blades, 5000/7000/10000 appliances) with Xilinx FPGA. It can be triggered if BIG-IP enters and exits syncookie protection frequently in a short interval as SYN traffic varies.
Impact:
This may lead to undesired behavior in processing traffic. For example it would cause the VIP to remain in hardware syncookie protection mode while SYN traffic is nominal.
Workaround:
Usually "bigstart restart tmm" would clear this error condition.
Fix:
BIG-IP hardware and software would have consistent syncookie protection state. However, this also introduces a behavior change on the following platforms (B2100/B4300 blades, 5000/7000/10000 appliances). When SYN traffic returns to nominal, it requires some legitimate traffic to trigger BIG-IP to exit syncookie protection mode.
622281 : Network DoS logging configuration change can cause TMM crash
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
Whenever a DoS Network logging profile is assigned or removed from a Virtual Server, it could cause random TMM crash.
Conditions:
The problem happens only with runtime config change.
Any logging profile config settings which was configured already and which gets loaded on TMM startup does not have this problem. Since this problem is a one time event on config change, TMM restart will pickup the config change and will work without any problem after the one time crash and TMM restart.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Invalid memory reference after free resulted in crash, which is fixed.
622244 : Edge client can fail to upgrade when always connected is selected
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Attempt to upgrade an Edge client may fail if the Always Connected mode is enabled
Conditions:
Always Connected is selected in BIG-IP when upgrading the client
Impact:
Upgrade will fail
Workaround:
Disable the Always Connected mode
Fix:
Upgrade functions as intended regardless of connection mode
622220 : Disruption during manipulation of PEM data with suspected flow irregularity
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
tmm crashes.
Conditions:
It is not known exactly what conditions trigger this; it was observed with Policy Enforcement Manager configured. It may occur when a new blade is added or HA event occurs and flows get rebalanced before the session is established.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Fixed a tmm crash related to manipulating Policy Enforcement Manager data.
622199-4 : sys-icheck reports error with /var/lib/waagent
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
On Azure cloud, running sys-icheck may report an error with /var/lib/waagent.
On BIG-IP version 12.0.0:
ERROR: ....L.... /var/lib/waagent
L - readLink(2) path mismatch
On BIG-IP version 12.1.0 and 12.1.1:
ERROR: .M....... /var/lib/waagent
M - Mode differs (includes permissions and file type)
Conditions:
This occurs on BIG-IP running on Azure cloud.
Impact:
sys-icheck utility indicates an error. The sys-icheck utility is used to find file system changes that have occurred since initial installation and provide information about their status.
Fix:
Fixed an issue with waagent that was causing sys-icheck to fail.
622194-1 : sys-icheck reports error with ssh_host_rsa_key
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
On Azure cloud, running sys-icheck may report an error with /config/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key and ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
ERROR: SM5...... /config/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
ERROR: SM5...... /config/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
Conditions:
This occurs on BIG-IP running on Azure cloud when running the sys-icheck utility.
Impact:
sys-icheck utility indicates an error. The sys-icheck utility is used to find file system changes that have occurred since initial installation and provide information about their status.
Fix:
Fixed an issue with ssh_host_rsa_key and ssh_host_rsa_key.pub that was causing sys-icheck to generate an error.
622183 : The alert daemon should remove old log files but it does not.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When the utilization of the log filesystem goes above the configuration setting 'sys db logcheck.alertthres' (default 90%), it is intended that the alert daemon should delete old log files. It does not.
Conditions:
System activity generates a high number of log messages, and/or a user puts large files in /var/log.
Impact:
The log filesystem may become completely full, and new log messages cannot be saved.
Fix:
The alert daemon will now remove old log files as intended.
622148 : flow generated icmp error message need to consider which side of the proxy they are
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
when generating an error message from a flow, the icmp6 code does not check which side the messages needs to be crafted for.
Conditions:
error handling
Impact:
As a result generated ICMP error message might contain the wrong addressing
Workaround:
no workaround
Fix:
now the code checks flow type before crafting the error message
622133 : VCMP guests may incorrectly obtain incorrect MAC addresses
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
vCMP guests may be re-configured to use MAC addresses based off an all zero MAC address (00:00:00:00:00:00).
The 'tmsh show net vlan' command will show the vlan interfaces having mostly 0's in the MAC address:
-------------------------------------
Net::Vlan: external
-------------------------------------
Interface Name external
Mac Address (True) 00:00:00:00:00:01
MTU 1500
Tag 3702
Customer-Tag
-------------------------------------
Net::Vlan: internal
-------------------------------------
Interface Name internal
Mac Address (True) 00:00:00:00:00:02
MTU 1500
Tag 3703
Customer-Tag
Conditions:
For this to manifest the vCMP host vcmpd process will have to have had a prior crash or be killed.
In this scenario vcmpd on restart uses a default zero-base MAC address for the guests.
The guests will not use the new zero-based MAC until services are restarted on the guest, on which the new MAC address will take effect.
Impact:
This can cause network issues and conflicts if occurring on multiple guests in the same VLAN as the same MAC addresses will be used.
Workaround:
Restart the guest from the hypervisor.
Fix:
vCMP no longer uses zero-based MACs on vcmpd crash/kill.
622126 : PHP vulnerability CVE-2016-7124
Vulnerability Solution Article: K54308010
622017 : RRD files are not backed up if the /shared/rrd.backup directory already exists
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Performance graphs do not display.
rrdshim cpu time does not increase.
Issuing "rrdtool dump /var/rrd/blade0cpu | grep lastupdate" shows a time in the past (prior to last system boot).
Conditions:
/shared/rrd.backup directory must not exist.
incorrect info hash in /var/rrd/<filename>.info
Impact:
rrd files do not get backed up.
Workaround:
restart statsd
"bigstart restart statsd"
621937 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6304
Vulnerability Solution Article: K54211024
621935 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6304
Vulnerability Solution Article: K54211024
621909 : Uneven egress trunk distribution on 5000/10000 platforms with odd number of trunk members
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When a trunk on the BigIP 5000 or 10000 platforms has an odd number of members, the traffic distribution to those interfaces will be unbalanced. Some interfaces will see more traffic than others.
Conditions:
This can occur for two reasons:
Either purposefully configuring an odd number of members or a port goes down in a trunk that has an even number of members.
Impact:
Uneven traffic distribution.
621843 : the ipother proxy is sending icmp error messages to the wrong side
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
the ipother proxy error handling sends ICMP error messages down the wrong side of the proxy. when a client-side error occurs, the error message is being sent to the server side
Conditions:
error handling of the ipother proxy
Impact:
ICMP error messages show up on the wrong side
Workaround:
no workaround
Fix:
fixed the error handling, messages are now sent to the correct side
621811 : Alert Component and Malware values are reset when deleting unsaved user-defined alert
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
When adding multiple user-defined alerts, Alert Component and Malware values are reset if deleting another alert from the list.
Conditions:
Provision and license FPS.
Impact:
FPS GUI.
Workaround:
Add alerts without deleting.
Fix:
Alert Component and Malware values are no longer reset when deleting unsaved user-defined alert
621808 : Proactive Bot Defense failing in IE11 with Compatibility View enabled
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
Internet Explorer 11 browsers which have "Compatibility View" enabled (under Compatibility View Settings IE menu), will fail the JavaScript challenge, when Proactive Bot Defense is enabled and the "Block requests from suspicious browsers" checkbox is checked.
The challenged request will be blocked using a TCP_RST flag, and the browser will show "This page can’t be displayed" is seen in the browser.
Conditions:
1. DoS profile that is attached to the Virtual Server has Proactive Bot Defense is enabled and "Block requests from suspicious browsers" checkbox is checked.
2. Internet Explorer 11 browsers in which the site's domain is inserted to the "Compatibility View Settings" in the browser's menu.
Impact:
Legitimate browsers get blocked when accessing the site.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Internet Explorer 11 browsers with "Compatibility View" enabled on the site no longer get blocked when Proactive Bot Defense is enabled on the DoS profile.
621736 : statsd does not handle SIGCHLD properly in all cases
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
- Performance graphs are not updating or are not existant.
- proc_pid_stat shows statsd time not increasing
- Top also shows that statsd is not taking any processor time.
Infact statsd is stuck on a wait in a signal handler.
Conditions:
If statsd receives a SIGCHLD signal it will get stuck and not process anything.
The following can trigger the issue:
rm -rf /shared/rrd.backup
- sed -i "s/^#CRC.*$/#CRC $RANDOM/" /var/rrd/throughput.info
- kill -HUP $(pgrep -f /usr/bin/statsd)
Impact:
No performance graphs are collected / generated
Workaround:
Restart statsd:
- bigstart restart statsd
621524 : Processing Timeout When Viewing a Request with 300+ Violations
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
When attempting to view a request that triggered hundreds or thousands of violations, a timeout is encountered.
Conditions:
Attempting to view a request that triggered hundreds or thousands of violations
Impact:
A timeout is encountered.
Workaround:
increase the "max_execution_time" timeout in /usr/loca/lib/php.ini from 30 to 240 seconds.
Fix:
Processing high violation requests is now more efficient.
621452 : Connections can stall with TCP::collect iRule
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Connection does not complete
Conditions:
A TCP::collect command with two arguments defers collection beyond the first client message, which should be sufficient to produce a response.
The Initial Sequence number in the SYN is < 2^31.
The first received packet after the SYN carries data.
Impact:
Connection fails.
Fix:
Properly set state variables associated with TCP::collect
621447 : In some rare cases, VDI may crash
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
VDI process crashes and connections to VDI resources are aborted.
Conditions:
VDI receives unexpected session variable result which is meant for some other VDI thread.
Impact:
Existing VDI connections are aborted and the user needs to login again.
Fix:
VDI should gracefully handle the error condition and should not crash
621423-1 : sys-icheck reports error with /config/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
On Azure cloud, running sys-icheck may report an error with /config/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key and other files:
ERROR: missing /config/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
ERROR: missing /config/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
ERROR: missing /config/ssh/ssh_host_key
ERROR: missing /config/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
Conditions:
This occurs on BIG-IP running on Azure cloud.
Impact:
sys-icheck utility indicates an error. The sys-icheck utility is used to find file system changes that have occurred since initial installation and provide information about their status.
Fix:
Fixed an issue with files in /config/ssh/ that was causing sys-icheck to report errors.
621422-1 : i2000 and i4000 series appliances do not warn when an incorrect optic is in a port
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
A 1G optic is inserted in a port that only supports 10G optics, or a 10G optic is inserted in a port that only supports 1G optics.
The invalid optic may show a link light, and no warning appears on the LCD.
Conditions:
i2000 or i4000 platforms ports do not auto-negotiate between 1G and 10G optics. Ports are assigned to one or the other speed.
Impact:
User may not understand why optic is not working correctly
Workaround:
Move the optic to the correct port.
621401-4 : When HA is configured on BIG-IPs managed by BIG-IQ, the AVR reporting from BIG-IQ may fail under the load
Component: Device Management
Symptoms:
When BIG-IQ is monitoring more than 1 BIG-IP in a HA clustser, AVR reporting on the BIG-IQ may fail if one of the BIG-IPs is under heavy load.
Conditions:
BIG-IQ monitoring BIG-IPs in a HA cluster
BIG-IPs running AFM and/or ASM
BIG-IQ used to monitor AFM and/or ASM reporting.
At least one of the BIG-IPs is under significant load so as to cause delays in responding to BIG-IQ requests.
Impact:
AVR reporting will stop functioning.
Workaround:
bigstart restart restjavad
621374 : "abbrev" argument in "whereis" iRule returns nothing
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The iRule [whereis <ip|ldns> abbrev] does not return a value.
Conditions:
iRule relying on whereis abbrev is used.
Impact:
The whereis iRule command will not return the expected value.
621371 : Output Errors in APM Event Log
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases the HTML used to display APM event logs is generated incorrectly.
Conditions:
APM enabled
Administrative user views APM event logs via WebUI
Impact:
Inaccurate HTML rendered in user browser.
Fix:
Corrected HTML errors when displaying APM event logs
621337 : XSS vulnerability in the BIG-IP and Enterprise Manager Configuration utilities CVE-2016-7469
Vulnerability Solution Article: K97285349
621284 : Incorrect TMSH help text for the 'max-response' RAMCACHE attribute
Component: WebAccelerator
Symptoms:
The TMSH help text for the 'max-response' RAMCACHE attribute incorrectly states that for the default value of 0 (zero) unlimited cache entries are allowed. In reality the number of cache entries is limited to 10.
Conditions:
Invoking the TMSH man/help page on RAMCACHE.
Impact:
Incorrect TMSH help text
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
max-response:
Displays the maximum number of entries in the RAM cache. The default value is 0 (zero), which is equivalent with no max-response value being specified. Without the max-response option the system will limit the number of entries to 10 per Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM).
621273 : DSR tunnels with transparent monitors may cause TMM crash.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The TMM may crash if the BIG-IP system is configured with a DSR tunnel with a transparent monitor.
Conditions:
The BIG-IP system is configured with a DSR tunnel with a transparent monitor and the DB variable tm.monitorencap is set to "enable".
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
The TMM does not crash.
621259-4 : Config save takes long time if there is a large number of data groups
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Config save takes a long time to complete
Conditions:
This occurs when there is a large number (~2000) of data-group objects in the configuration
Impact:
When take longer than 90 seconds soap iControl will time out.
This make it impossible to manage via EM
621239 : Certain DNS queries bypass DNS Cache RPZ filter.
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
A DNS query with the DO-bit set to 1 will bypass the RPZ filter on a DNS Cache.
Conditions:
A DNS Cache configured with RPZ.
Impact:
Queries with DO-bit set to 1 will bypass the RPZ filter and be answered normally.
Fix:
The DO-bit is now ignored with respect to RPZ filtering.
621225-1 : LTM log contains misleading error messages for front panel interfaces, "PCI Device not found for Interface X.0"
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When BIG-IP is initially booted or re-started, there are certain conditions under which the LTM log may report the following message for front panel interfaces, "PCI Device not found for Interface <X.0>", where X can be in the range of 1-6. These messages are misleading because the front panel interfaces do not have any PCI devices associated with them and should not have been flagged as errors.
Conditions:
i2600/i2800 products intermittently produce these messages upon power-up or BIG-IP re-start.
Impact:
They are false alarms in the log. The associated interfaces do not have said PCI devices.
Fix:
Removed the possibility of getting false alarm messages in the LTM log for front panel interfaces 1.0-6.0 that claim, "PCI Device not found for Interface X.0".
621210 : Policy sync shows as aborted even if it is completed
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
After syncing a policy in a sync-only device group, the policy appears to be synced to the target successfully, however, the remote HA pair devices show status as canceled/aborted.
Conditions:
It is not known exactly what triggers this condition. It was observed in a 4-device trust group consisting of 2 sync/failover groups and a single sync-only device group for all 4 devices. After the sync the status reported as cancelled/aborted.
Impact:
Sync status is displayed incorrectly, even after the sync was successful.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Policy sync now shows as completed when it is completed.
621202 : Portal Access: document.write() with very long string as argument may be handled incorrectly.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
JavaScript code may include document.write() calls with very long strings (> 60K). In some cases these strings may be rewritten incorrectly.
Conditions:
- document.write() with very long string as argument.
- argument string contains HTML tags with quoted attribute values which include '>' inside.
Impact:
rewritten HTML page may not work correctly.
Fix:
Now document.write() calls with long HTML strings are handled correctly by Portal Access.
621126 : Import of config with saml idp connector with reuse causes certificate not found error
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Export and then Import with reuse of config that has SAML Idp Connector as part of configuration would fail with Object not found or Certificate not found error:
Import Error: 01070734:3: Configuration error: /Common/my_cert.crt certificate not found.
Conditions:
Exporting and then importing with "Reuse existing objects" checked. Normal import is ok.
Impact:
Importing fails.
Workaround:
On From box:Disconnect Idp configuration, export config.
On To box:Recereate Idp configuration, import, reconnect it.
Fix:
Importing with reuse is fixed.
621115 : IP/IPv6 TTL/hoplimit may not be preserved for host traffic
Component: Performance
Symptoms:
Traffic to and from the Linux host has TTL set to 255 or hop limit set to 64. This may impact any protocols that scrutinize the TTL such as IGMP or BGP.
Conditions:
IP/IPv6 TTL/hoplimit for host traffic.
Impact:
IGMP packets will not be passed from TMM to the Linux host and remote routers may reject IGMP packets from the BIG-IP.
BGP neighbors may reject packets from the BIG-IP.
Workaround:
Adjust TTL verification restrictions on peer devices.
Fix:
The IP/IPv6 TTL/hoplimit of host traffic is no longer modified when it traverses TMM.
620969-1 : iControl doesn't give correct valid key sizes for FIPS keys on BIG-IP 5250, 7200F, 10200F, and 11050F platforms running the Cavium Nitrox XL FIPS cards.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Using the get_valid_key_sizes() for querying the valid key sizes, 1024 is returned, which is not valid when the FIPS firmware is version 2.2 or above.
Conditions:
FIPS firmware is version 2.2 or above.
Impact:
Unsupported key-size is returned.
Fix:
This issue has been fixed to return the supported key-sizes in versions after 12.x.x.
620922 : Online help for Network Access needs update
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Online help for advanced network settings does not tell users that if they fill in the DNS Address Space setting, they also need to install the DNS Relay Proxy service on Windows-based systems to get the desired result.
Conditions:
Split tunneling configured. Windows-based system in use. DNS Address Space setting filled in.
Impact:
Use of DNS Address Space setting does not provide the expected result.
Workaround:
Install the DNS Relay Proxy server on Windows-based systems.
Fix:
Network Access online help now states that for DNS Address Space to work properly on a Windows-based system, the DNS Relay Proxy service must be installed and running on the client.
620829 : Portal Access / JavaScript code which uses reserved keywords for field names in literal object definition may not work correctly
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
JavaScript code with literal object definition containing field names equal to reserved keywords is not handled correctly by Portal Access.
Conditions:
JavaScript code with literal object definition containing fields with reserved keywords as a name, for example:
var a = { default: 1, continue: 2 };
Impact:
JavaScript code is not rewritten and may not work correctly.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Now JavaScript with literal object definition containing reserved keywords as field names is handled correctly by Portal Access.
620801 : Access Policy is not able to check device posture for Android 7 devices
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
APM identifies Android devices based on their MAC address. With Android 7, it is not possible to retrieve device MAC address and hence APM is not able to check for device compliance against configured Endpoint Management System (EMS) using the Managed Endpoint Status Policy Item.
If the Access Policy is configured to restrict access based on APM's Managed Endpoint Status, and the user attempts to connect to APM using an Android 7 device with the F5 Edge Client app, access will be disallowed.
Conditions:
- Access policy is configured to deny access on endpoint compliance failure with Managed Endpoint Status
- User accesses APM from an Android 7 device using F5 Edge Client app.
Impact:
Connection is denied because F5 Edge Client is not able to determine the device MAC address to transmit to APM. The lookup for endpoint posture will result in a compliance check failure.
Workaround:
This workaround only applies to IBM Maas360:
Add Variable Assign agent just before Managed Endpoint Status agent with the following variables:
session.client.platform_tmp = expr {[mcget session.client.platform]}
session.client.platform = expr {"iOS"}
session.client.unique_id = expr {"Android[mcget session.client.unique_id]"}
And add Variable Assign agent after Managed Endpoint Status agent to reset session.client.platform to its original state:
session.client.platform = expr {[mcget session.client.platform_tmp]}
Fix:
Access policy now uses multiple fallback types to correlate the device identity with endpoint management systems: Device Serial Number, IMEI number, and MAC address, respectively.
620635 : Request having upper case JSON login parameter is not detected as a failed login attempt
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Not able to detect failed login attempt if ASM policy is case insensitive, and incoming JSON string contains upper case.
Conditions:
ASM provisioned
ASM policy is case-insensitive
JSON profile, w/ JSON login parameter with an upper-case character
Impact:
Not able to detect failed login attempt if ASM policy is case insensitive, and incoming JSON string contains upper case.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
We've made sure that JSON login parameter are always treated as case sensitive, regardless of the ASM policy case sensitivity setting.
620614-1 : Citrix PNAgent replacement mode: iOS Citrix receiver fails to add new store account
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
iOS Citrix receiver fails to add new store account and touching on the Save option after providing the credentials displays "Loading" and comes back to previous save option.
/var/log/apm displays "An exception is thrown: EVP_CipherFinal_ex failed: EVP_DecryptFinal_ex:bad decrypt" from VDI.
The above error, otherwise, below error which deletes the session id abruptly.
Oct 24 16:33:12 slot2/vip-guest7-test notice tmm[11547]: 01490567:5: /Common/mvdi-r_ap:Common:e19516fd: Session deleted (internal_cause).
Conditions:
APM is configured with Citrix replacement mode. Provide wrong passcode values for RSA SecurId auth for continuously three times which trigger the next token input for the fourth time entering the right passcode. APM rotate session is enabled.
Impact:
iOS Citrix receiver could not add the account after providing wrong token values for two factor auth
Workaround:
Kill the iOS Citrix receiver application and click on the receiver again to add the account.
Fix:
Use the right session id for decrypting the password.
620366 : Alertd can not open UDP socket upon restart
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
alertd fails to restart due to the following error:
Sep 29 18:29:44 B2200-R76-S19 err alertd[16882]: 01100009:3: Couldn't open file UDP listener
Conditions:
alertd has spawned a long-running process (e.g. ntpd) which does not close inherited file descriptors.
Impact:
alertd fails to restart
Fix:
Mark alertd file descriptors for automatic closure in child processes.
620215 : TMM out of memory causes core in DNS cache
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
The TMM crashes and service is lost until it restarts. You may see several "aggressive mode sweeper" messages in /var/log/ltm prior to the crash.
Conditions:
This can occur when the TMM memory is exhausted.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Provision sufficient memory for the TMM or reduce load.
Fix:
The fix was to properly handle the failure allocating memory.
620079 : Removing route-domain may cause monitors to fail
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Removing route-domain may cause icmp and gateway-icmp monitors in unrelated route-domains to fail.
Conditions:
Route-domain is removed and icmp/gateway-icmp monitor is used.
Impact:
Monitor marking node down resulting in partial service outrage.
Workaround:
Restart bigd (bigstart restart bigd).
620056 : Assert on deletion of paired in-and-out IPsec traffic selectors
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When two traffic-selectors, one in and one out, mirror each other by reversing source and destination addresses, then deleting one can miss-fire an assert, restarting tmm.
Conditions:
Defining two clearly related traffic selectors, one for in and one for out, can confuse a later check of their names.
Impact:
When a traffic selector is deleted, from such a pair, an assert can fail that restarts tmm processes. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Using one traffic selector with direction=both would avoid the problem, before this change appears in a release.
Fix:
The confusion of over names for such paired traffic selectors is now fixed, so the assert cannot occur. Such traffic selectors -- just like each other execpt for reversed source and destination -- will work correctly for IKEv1 configs. For IKEv2 it is still best to use single TS insances with direction=both.
619879 : HTTP iRule commands could lead to WEBSSO plugin being invoked
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
With SSO logs set to 'Debug' in Access log configuration, the following log messages are seen in '/var/log/apm':
Sep 30 12:46:17 bigip3900mgmt debug websso.3[14520]: 014d0001:7: constructor
Sep 30 12:46:17 bigip3900mgmt debug websso.3[14520]: 014d0001:7: webssoContext constructor ...
Sep 30 12:46:17 bigip3900mgmt err websso.3[14520]: 014d0005:3: Unsupported SSO Method
Sep 30 12:46:17 bigip3900mgmt debug websso.3[14520]: 014d0001:7: ctx: 0x914b510, SERVER: TMEVT_REQUEST
Sep 30 12:46:17 bigip3900mgmt debug websso.3[14520]: 014d0001:7: ctx: 0x914a718, CLIENT: TMEVT_ABORT_PROXY
Sep 30 12:46:17 bigip3900mgmt debug websso.3[14520]: 014d0001:7: webssoContext destructor ...
Sep 30 12:46:17 bigip3900mgmt debug websso.3[14520]: 014d0001:7: webssoConfig destructor
With 'rstcause' enabled, the following log message is seen in '/var/log/ltm':
Sep 30 12:46:17 bigip3900mgmt err tmm2[13116]: 01230140:3: RST sent from 172.17.90.92:57611 to 127.0.0.1:10001, [0x24ccbbc:820] Internal error (APM::WEBSSO requested abort (Unsupported SSO Method))
Conditions:
HTTP::disable followed by HTTP::enable.
when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
HTTP::disable
// do some other stuff
HTTP::enable
}
Impact:
client receives a HTTP 503 reset
Workaround:
When the access profile is added to the virtual server, the websso plugin profile is automatically added. Manually removing the websso plugin fixes this bug.
Fix:
The server-side access hudfilter was mistakenly enabling the websso plugin. The logic has been updated so that this does not happen.
619872 : BigIP upgrading doesn't carry over Thales configuration on the secondary slot
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
After BIG-IP upgrading in the multi-blade platform configured with Thales, the secondary platform fails to carry over Thales configuration.
When running enquiry at primary slot, you will get response about Thales config. At secondary slot, you will not be able to run "enquiry".
Conditions:
Thales installed on chassis.
Impact:
Secondary slot doesn't have Thales HSM configured.
Workaround:
Wait for csynced finish syncing /shared/nfast from primary slot to the secondary slot. Then run "clsh bigstart restart pkcs11d".
While waiting, run this command to compare the folder size of /shared/nfast/.
[root@localhost:/S1-green-P:Active:Standalone] config # clsh "du -sh /shared/nfast/"
=== slot 2 addr 127.3.0.2 color green ===
220M /shared/nfast/
=== slot 3 addr 127.3.0.3 color red ===
=== slot 4 addr 127.3.0.4 color blue ===
=== slot 1 addr 127.3.0.1 color green ===
220M /shared/nfast/
Another workaround(maybe faster) is to reinstall Thales after upgrading. Csyncd could take 10+ minutes to finish sync'ing.
A third workaround is to scp /shared/nfast/ from primary slot to secondary slot. After that, run "bigstart restart pkcs11d"
e.g.,
[root@localhost:/S1-green-P:Active:Standalone]scp -r /shared/nfast/ slot2:/shared/
619849 : 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.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crashes with a SIGABRT (killed by sod)
Conditions:
TCP (full proxy) virtual servers with verified-accept enabled in the TCP profiles, that must be handling traffic.
This issue occurs extremely rarely.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while TMM restarts.
Workaround:
disable verify accept.
Fix:
the loop is fixed.
619811 : Machine Cert OCSP check fails with multiple Issuer CA
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If there are multiple CAs in the CA bundle and issuing CA is not first in it, the OCSP responder returns "unauthorized" response.
Conditions:
This can only happen when issuing CA is not first in the CA file.
Impact:
OSCP check in machine cert will fail and user won't be able to follow successful branch in Access Policy. This might result in Authentication failure even though the machine cert is valid.
Workaround:
Use iRule Event and variable Assign agent in between Machine Cert and OCSP Auth agent.
Follow these steps:
iRule:
1) Loop through the CA bundle until you find matching issuer cert
2) Set this new issuer cert to "session.check_machinecert.last.cert.issuer.cert"
Variable Assign:
3) Read this issuer cert from the session db and assign it back to the same session variable:
session.check_machinecert.last.cert.issuer.cert = expr { [mcget -nocache {session.check_machinecert.last.cert.issuer.cert}] }
Fix:
Issuer cert is now looked up and set properly from the CA bundle. So there is no longer any failure response from OCSP responder.
619757 : iSession causes routing entry to be prematurely freed
Component: Wan Optimization Manager
Symptoms:
iSession may cause TMM to prematurely free a routing entry resulting in memory corruption and TMM restarting.
Conditions:
iSession-enabled virtual.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while TMM restarts.
Workaround:
No reasonable workaround short of not using iSession functionality.
Fix:
iSession no longer causes routing entries to be prematurely freed.
619706 : tmsh appears to allow password change for internal lcd admin user
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The 'tmsh modify auth password' command appears to allow the password to be changed for the f5hubblelcdadmin user.
Conditions:
Using the 'modify auth password' command under tmsh, and manually specifying the 'f5hubblelcdadmin' user (which does not appear among the list of available users, such as via tab-completion).
Impact:
This operation appears to succeed, but has no actual effect on BIG-IP operations.
This is an internal user account which provides the context for communication with the lcd front panel display on newer BIG-IP appliances. Changing the stored password for this user account does not affect these operations.
Fix:
Removed the appearance of the ability to change the password for the internal lcd admin user.
619701 : rate_limit can affect to iClient connectivity
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Sometimes iClient (using iSession) can't connect to server.
In TMM log:
iSession: Connection error: isession_handle_syn:3630: No peer
Conditions:
If a rate limit is set for an iClient virtual (with iSession defined) it can sometimes prevent iClient from connecting.
Impact:
iClient randomly can't connect
Workaround:
remove rate limit from virtual
Fix:
avoid rate_limit check for iSession control connection.
619667 : Allow Local DNS Servers is not honored on Mac OS X
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases of split tunnel local DNS resolution on client does not work.
Its "emulated" full tunnel mode i.e. split tunnel and IPv4 LAN address space of 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 and don't allow local subnet access.
Conditions:
Configure Allow Local DNS Servers is not honored on Mac OS X.
Configure split tunnel and IPv4 LAN address space of 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0.
Disable local subnet access.
System has only one physical adapter (ethernet or wifi) available for networking.
Impact:
DNS resolution fails for some split tunnel deployment cases.
Workaround:
Specify "*" in DNS included address space to forward all DNS traffic over the tunnel.
Fix:
Allow local DNS configuration is honored on Mac OS X now.
Behavior Change:
Allow local DNS configuration is honored on Mac OS X now.
619663 : Terminating of HTTP2 connection may cause a TMM crash
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crashes when an HTTP2 connection is being terminating on client and server sides concurrently.
Conditions:
HTTP2 profile is configured and assigned to a virtual.
A client SSL profile is also used on the same virtual.
Client interrupting a connection as well as server is also terminating a connection at the same time.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
A fix stops HTTP2 from further processing when a connection is terminating preventing TMM crash for this reason.
619528 : TMM may accumulate internal events resulting in TMM restart
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Under some uncommon circumstances, long-lived connections may cause internal events to be accumulated causing excessive memory usage potentially resulting in TMM restarting.
Conditions:
HTTP virtual with long-lived connections.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while TMM restarts.
Workaround:
The issue can be mitigated by setting the HTTP 'max-requests' profile option to a reasonably low value - this value will depend on application requirements.
Fix:
Internal events are no longer accumulated thus avoiding low memory conditions.
619486 : Scripts on rewritten pages could fail with JavaScript exception if application code modifies window.self
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Attempts to call some JavaScript methods (such as XMLHttpRequest.open) on a page accessed through Portal Access could fail if application modifies window.self builtin object. As a result, the application will stop working and optionally log an undefined variable/reference exception into Developer Tools console.
To verify that window.self is modified, run 'window.self == window' command in Developer Tools console of the page with error and check if it returns 'false'.
Conditions:
This can occur if a web application has javascript that modifies the value of window.self.
Impact:
Affected web-applications will not work when accessed through Portal Access.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Scripts on pages accessed through Portal Access are no longer failing when web application code modifies window.self.
619473 : Browser may hang at APM session logout
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Browser hangs at logout from APM session with RDP client and/or VMware View client.
Conditions:
- APM Virtual server with RDP client and/or VMware View client on webtop;
- active session on this webtop with opened client.
Impact:
Logout from APM session may take a long time (several minutes). In some cases, it may be necessary to restart browser.
Fix:
Now browser does not hangs at logout from APM session with RDP client and/or VMvare View client.
619410 : TMM hardware accelerated compression not registering for all compression levels.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
DEFLATE/gzip/zlib compression levels other than level 1 were bypassing the hardware accelerator and being serviced in software, resulting in higher CPU utilization and slower compression times.
Conditions:
Compression requests for DEFLATE/gzip/zlib levels other than level 1.
Impact:
Compression requests serviced by software are scheduled on local CPUs. During heavy compression traffic, overall system traffic flow may be reduced. Compression requests serviced in software may take significantly longer to complete.
Fix:
Hardware accelerator correctly registers for all DEFLATE/gzip/zlib compression levels, not just level 1.
619398 : TMM out of memory causes core in DNS cache
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
The TMM crashes and service is lost until it restarts. You may see several "aggressive mode sweeper" messages in /var/log/ltm prior to the crash.
Conditions:
This can occur when the TMM memory is exhausted.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Provision sufficient memory for the TMM or reduce load.
Fix:
The fix was to properly handle the failure allocating memory.
619250 : Returning to main menu from "RSS Feed" breaks ribbon
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When you go to "RSS Feed" configuration page for Document, Picture Library, List etc. and go back to SharePoint Dashboard using link at the top pointing to "RSS FEED for ..." and then click any option on the ribbon, you got "500 Internal Server Error" and ribbon stops working. When you use built-in browser button "go back" instead, everything works Ok.
Conditions:
"500 Internal Server Error" occurred. Ribbon stop working.
Impact:
Ribbon stop working.
Workaround:
Use built-in browser "go back" button instead.
Fix:
Returning to main menu from "RSS FEED for ...", ribbon continue to work. No more "500 Internal Server Error".
619158 : iRule DNS request with trailing dot times out with empty response
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
The DNS request takes about 20 seconds to respond and the response is empty.
Conditions:
An iRule uses RESOLV::lookup or NAME::lookup to resolve a domain name that ends with a dot.
Impact:
The request does not properly resolve to an IP address.
Workaround:
Strip the trailing dot from the domain name before calling RESOLV::lookup or NAME::lookup.
Fix:
Domain names with trailing dots are properly resolved from iRules. The trailing dot is stripped when the request is saved to later match with the response.
619097-1 : iControl REST slow performace on GET request for virtual servers
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Performing a GET request on a BIG-IP with a large number of virtual servers may result in slow performance and timeout errors.
Conditions:
When a significant number of virtual servers reference persistence profiles.
Impact:
Unable to perform large GET query on virtual servers.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Improved iControl REST performance for Performing a GET request on a BIG-IP with a large number persistence profiles on virtual servers.
619071 : OneConnect with verified accept issues
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
System may experience an outage.
Conditions:
Verified Accept enabled in TCP profile
hardware syncookies enabled
OneConnect profile on VIP
Syncookie threshold crossed
Impact:
System outage.
Workaround:
Disabled verified accept when used with OneConnect on a VIP.
Fix:
Verified accept, OneConnect and hardware syncookies work
correctly together.
618957 : Certificate objects are not properly imported from external SAML SP metadata when metadata contains both signing and encryption certificates
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
BIG-IP supports import of external SAML SP metadata to create SP-Connector objects. When such metadata file contains two certificates (one with 'signing' and one with 'encryption use) then BIG-IP will import certificate that is positioned 'second' in metadata twice.
Conditions:
Imported metadata contains two certificates with different use types: 'signing' and 'encryption'
Impact:
There is no impact if in metadata signing and encryption certificates are the same. If certificates are different - SAML SSO may not function properly due to incorrect certificate imported in configuration.
Workaround:
Import certificates manually, and assign them to created from metadata SAML SP connector
Fix:
Issue is now fixed: both certificates are imported correctly.
618944 : AVR statistic is not save during the upgrade process
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
All AVR statistics will be lost after upgrade from 12.1.0 or 12.1.1.
Conditions:
AVR statistic was collected on 12.1.0 or 12.1.1.
The BIG-IP was upgraded.
Impact:
Old AVR statistics will be lost
Workaround:
1. before upgrade edit the following file:
./usr/libdata/configsync/avr_save_pre
2. change the following line " [ $(is_provisioned avr) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned pem) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned afm) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned swg) -eq 1 $(is_provisioned asm) -eq 1 ] && "
with " [ $(is_provisioned avr) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned pem) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned afm) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned swg) -eq 1 -o $(is_provisioned asm) -eq 1 ] && "
Fix:
AVR upgrade script fixed
618905 : tmm core while installing Safenet 6.2 client
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
tmm core while installing Safenet 6.2 client.
Conditions:
Safenet 6.2 client installation
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Fixed a tmm core related to Safenet 6.2 client installation.
618779 : Route updates during IPsec tunnel setup can cause tmm to restart
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
During the setup of IPsec tunnel flows, tmm depends on a valid route being available towards a remote peer to correctly create the IPsec inbound tunnel flows. The absence of the route at this stage, causes tmm to crash and restart. This is more likely to happen if the route towards the endpoint is dynamic.
Conditions:
IPsec tunnels are being set up with a given remote peer and the route towards that peer is not reliably present (as is in the case of dynamic route updates)
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Ensure that there is always a valid route towards each of the remote peers.
Fix:
The tmm process no longer restarts if there is no valid route towards the remote peer during IPsec tunnel setup.
618771 : Some Social Security Numbers are not being masked
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
ASM does not block or mask some SSN numbers.
Conditions:
The Data Guard feature is turned on and set to Block, Alarm or Mask. The responses contains social security numbers with specific ranges.
Impact:
The traffic passes neither masked nor blocked to the end client.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The system now correctly masks and/or blocks all relevant social security numbers.
618693 : Web Scraping session_opening_anomaly reports the wrong route domain for the source IP
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
When generating a web scraping attack of session opening anomaly type, there is an attack start/end event shown in the /var/log/asm and GUI: Security :: Event Logs : Application : Web Scraping Statistics. The event has a "source ip" field which should come along with the route domain. In the case of "session opening anomaly" the route domain is always zero. (For example: 127.0.0.1%0). Even there is a non-zero route domain configured.
Conditions:
Route domain is configured and a web scraping attack event triggers.
Impact:
Incorrect route domain field is shown in the GUI and /var/log/asm.
Workaround:
None. This is a cosmetic error. The system uses the correct route domain
Fix:
The fix is to set the correct route domain for the "session opening anomaly" events shown in the GUI and /var/log/asm
618657 : Bogus ICMP unreachable messages in PEM with ipother profile in use
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
The ipother virtual server will send bogus ICMP unreachable messages caused by incorrect error handling in the PEM filter.
Conditions:
A VS with ipother profile configured together with the PEM profile. In the field defect the additional piece needed was the missing classification, but this is due to code ordering, so in non-fixed versions this can also happen with the classification profile present.
Impact:
Unnecessary ICMP traffic
Fix:
Fixed an issue related to unnecessary ICMP traffic in the PEM filter.
618549 : Fast Open can cause TMM crash CVE-2016-9249
Vulnerability Solution Article: K71282001
618517 : bigd may falsely complain of a file descriptor leak when it cannot open its debug log file
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
- On 11.6.1, bigd will report erroneously mark pool members down and messags similar to the following will be seen in the ltm log file:
Sep 23 10:45:59 bipve1 warning bigd[7413]: 01060154:4: Bigd PID 7413 throttling monitor instance probe because file descriptor limit 65436 reached.
- On 12.1.x, this bug has negligible impact.
Conditions:
Monitoring must be in use, bigd debug logging must be enabled, and the bigd debug log file (/var/log/bigdlog) must be full.
Impact:
- On 11.6.1 this can cause bigd to stop monitoring, resulting in pool members being marked down erroneously.
- In 12.1.x, some of the underlying logging code changed and there is no real impact.
Workaround:
You can rotate the log file, using the following command:
logrotate -f bigdlog
Fix:
Stopped bigd from thinking it was out of file descriptors when it was unable to open its debug log file.
618428-1 : iRules LX - Debug mode does not function in dedicated mode
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
In case if the debug option is enabled in the dedicated mode, sometimes some of the nodejs process can be allocated a "in-use" port, which prevents it from starting successfully.
By design every process is guaranteed a debug port in the configured range as long as there are enough ports available in the system. In-use ports are skipped, so consecutive port allocation is not guaranteed.
Conditions:
some of the ports in the range are busy.
Impact:
Some of the nodejs processes fail to start which prevents normal iRuleLX operation.
Workaround:
Consult with netstat output and set the debug-port-range-low to a higher value (eg. 10000+) to minimise the change of a port conflict.
618421-1 : Some mass storage is left un-used
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
It is intended that all mass storage capacity be available for use by application data, site-local configuration, or sofwtare. In some conditions, about 10% of the mass storage capacity is not made available for application data.
Conditions:
This occurs on the BIG-IP i-Series platforms.
Impact:
Applications that use a lot of storage may not function optimally.
Fix:
The storage is optimally reallocated.
618404 : Access Profile copying might end up in invalid way if series of names.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
After copying an access policy, you receive an error when trying to open the copy: "Unable to load accessPolicy '/Common/my_policy_access_1_1' from source."
Conditions:
When items with names ending with _#_#_1 and _#_#_2, _# reduction is working.
Impact:
Unable to copy policy properly.
Workaround:
Export policy, import with reuse.
Fix:
Copying is fixed for this conditions.
618382 : qkview may cause tmm to restart or may take 30 or more minutes to run
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When taking a qkview on a heavily loaded BIG-IP device (with lots of connections) running 12.1.0 or 12.1.1, the qkview utility may take a very long time to complete (30+ minutes) or cause tmm to restart. This is due to a new qkview command that was added to gather a list of recent connections with the tmsh show sys connection command, which has a significant performance impact when run while the BIG-IP is heavily loaded.
Conditions:
This can occur on the following versions:
- 12.1.0 including 12.1.0 HF1 and 12.1.0 HF2
- 12.1.1 including 12.1.1 HF1
This can occur when the BIG-IP is heavily loaded and while running the qkview command.
Impact:
Qkview command can take an exceedingly long time to run (30+ minutes).
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Do not run the qkview command if the device is heavily loaded.
Fix:
Removed offending "show sys connection" command from qkview utility.
618336 : mkdisk utility fails if the USB device has a GUID partition table
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
'mkdisk' utility will fail under some circumstances, exiting with :
Failed to add partition: Invalid argument
Leaving
Conditions:
-- hosting system has 'sfdisk' version 2.26 or above
-- USB device has a GUID partition table
Impact:
USB device formatting cannot proceed
Workaround:
convert the USB device partition table from GPT to MBR before using 'mkdisk'
for example, use 'diskpart' in a Windows shell. run two commands on the disk:
-- clean
-- convert mbr
Then use 'mkdisk' as usual.
618324 : Unknown/Undefined OPSWAT ID show up as 'Any' in APM Visual Policy Editor
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When upgrading from OPSWAT SDK V3 to V4, opening Access Policy in VPE if one of the opswat checker (e.g. Anti-Virus checker) contains an Undefined (i.e. previously defined but out of support) ID it will display as "Any." The correct display should be "Unsupported" or "Invalid" product.
Conditions:
Wrongful information displayed.
Impact:
Wrongful information displayed.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Correct (*** Invalid ***) information displayed.
618319 : HA pair will go Active/Active, and report peer as "offline" is network-failover service is blocked
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
All members of a Sync/Failover Device Group report "Active" for all traffic-groups, and "Offline" for all peers. Configuration sync works appropriately.
Conditions:
This can occur if the network failover configuration is incorrect. Each device should have multiple network failover addresses (either unicast or multicast) configured, and any self-IPs configured as unicast addresses must not block the configured unicast UDP source-port (default value: 1026).
If this port is blocked, the devices cannot exchange failover status information.
Impact:
When devices cannot reach the failover address of their peer devices, failover traffic will not be processed correctly and the device will become active for all traffic groups. This will result in duplicate IP addresses on the network for the objects in the traffic groups, which will cause a disruption of service.
Workaround:
Ensure that the "allow-service" parameter for the self-IP includes the configured network-failover port. Normally this is done with "allow-service { default }" if using the default default-list, or an explicit entry can be used with "allow-service { udp:1026 }".
Fix:
The system has been changed to validate input of unicast self-IPs, and issue a TMSH warning and log a message if a unicast address is configured that does not have the correct allow-service attribute.
"Unicast IP address x.x.x.x does not allow service on UDP port xxxx, network failover may not work."
618306 : TMM vulnerability CVE-2016-9247
Vulnerability Solution Article: K33500120
618263 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2182
Vulnerability Solution Article: K01276005
618261 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2182
Vulnerability Solution Article: K01276005
618170 : Some URL unwrapping functions can behave bad
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Some URL unwrapping functions can behave incorrectly with different web application malfunctions as a result.
Conditions:
JavaScript with "location.pathname" like fields at the right side of an expression.
Impact:
Different web application malfunctions. One example is SharePoint 2010 using IE11, clicking the Edit button results in "Only secure content is displayed" at the bottom of the page.
Fix:
Fixed.
618161 : SSL handshake fails when clientssl uses softcard-protected key-certs.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
SSL handshake fails when clientssl uses softcard-protected key-certs.
Conditions:
Softcard-protection is enabled and token protection is disabled.
Impact:
SSL handshake fails
Workaround:
None known.
Fix:
SSL handshake no longer fails when clientssl uses softcard-protected key-certs.
618121-2 : "persist add" irule validation fails for RTSP_RESPONSE event on upgrade to v12.x.x★
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
"persist add" irule validation fails for RTSP_RESPONSE event on upgrade to v12.x.x
Conditions:
When the RTSP_RESPONSE event and "persist add" iRule are used and upgrade to v12.x.x.
Impact:
"persist add" iRule validation failed. The iRule will not be loaded.
Workaround:
possible workaround is to bypass validation
when RULE_INIT {
set static::persist_cmd { persist add uie $SessionID $static::persist_timeout }
}
when RTSP_RESPONSE {
set SessionID [RTSP::header value "Session"]
if { $SessionID != "" }{
#persist add uie $SessionID $static::persist_timeout
eval $static::persist_cmd
}
}
618104 : Connection Using TCP::collect iRule May Not Close
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The BIG-IP never sends a TCP FIN in response to a client FIN.
Conditions:
A finite TCP::collect iRule is in progress.
This is repeatable in the debug kernel; in the default kernel, there has to be execution delay in a CLIENT_DATA iRule.
Impact:
The connection does not close until the sweeper causes a RST.
Workaround:
Adding a TCP::close command to a CLIENT_DATA iRule may work.
Fix:
Handle execution delay correctly.
618024 : software switched platforms accept traffic on lacp trunks even when the trunk is down
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
On software switched platforms tmm owned LCAP trunks still accept traffic even though the trunk is down from the control plane ( LACP status down).
Conditions:
LACP trunk with status down
Impact:
VLAN failsafe timers are erroneous reset, VLAN failsafe is broken.
Workaround:
no workaround
Fix:
tmm now checks the link status on tmm owned lacp trunks before accepting traffic.
617986-1 : Memory leak in snmpd
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Memory usage in snmpd is increases until the OOM process kills snmpd.
Conditions:
BIG-IP configured with virtual servers that have the same destination IP address
Impact:
snmp disrupted while snmp restarts.
Workaround:
No workaround
Fix:
Fixed memory leaks.
617862 : Fastl4 handshake timeout is absolute instead of relative
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TCP connections that are pending completion of the three-way handshake are expired based on the absolute value of handshake timeout. For example, if handshake timeout is 5 seconds, then the connection is reset after 5 seconds of receiving the initial SYN from the client.
Conditions:
A TCP connection in three-way handshake.
Impact:
Connections are expired prematurely if they are still in three-way handshake.
Workaround:
Disable handshake timeout.
Impact of workaround: Your TCP handshake will not prematurely timeout and connections remains open until the Idle Timeout expires.
Fix:
The handshake timeout now expires based on idleness of the connection, taking into consideration of any SYN retransmissions, etc., that might occur.
617858 : bigd core when using Tcl monitors
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If a Tcl monitor encounters an error, it may exit with an assert which causes bigd to core.
Conditions:
This can occur rarely when Tcl monitors are in use (specifically, SMTP, FTP, IMAP, POP3 monitors).
Impact:
bigd can core, which temporarily suspends monitoring while bigd restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Now, when a Tcl monitor encounters an error, it no longer exits with an assert, so bigd no longer cores.
617824 : "SSL::disable/enable serverside" + oneconnect reuse is broken
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If "SSL::disable/enable serverside" is configured in an iRule and oneConnect is configured in the iRule or in the Virtual Server profile, BIG-IP may not receive the backend server's HTTP response for every client's HTTP Request.
Conditions:
1. "SSL::disable/enable serverside" exists in the iRule
2. OneConnect is configured in the iRule or in the VS profile
3. apply the iRule and oneConnect Profile to the VS.
Impact:
The oneConnect behavior is unexpected, and may not get the backend Server's HTTP response for every client's HTTP Request.
Workaround:
You can work around the problem by disabling oneConnect.
617629 : Same report is downloaded repeatedly after user clicks on "export csv" and then click on another tab
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If you click on the "export csv" button and then switch to another report, the same csv file will be download again when you click on the tab of another report.
Conditions:
Creating multiple reports in Access Report page and clicking on the "export csv" button in one report.
Impact:
Same file will be downloaded repeatedly.
Workaround:
Refresh the page before switching to another report.
617628 : SNMP reports incorrect value for sysBladeTempTemperature OID
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
SNMP reports incorrect value for sysBladeTempTemperature OID, while TMSH reports the corresponding value correctly.
# snmpwalk -v2c -c public localhost .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.3.2.4.2.1.2.8.1
F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB::sysBladeTempTemperature.8.1 = Gauge32: 4294967245
# tmsh show sys hardware
Sys::Hardware
Blade Temperature Status
Slot Index Lo Limit(C) Temp(degC) Hi Limit(C) Location
...
1 8 0 -48 0 Blade CPU #1 TControl Delta tem
...
The negative "Blade CPU #1 TControl Delta" temperature is being incorrectly reported as a large positive temperature by SNMP.
Impact:
A negative temperature may be incorrectly reported by SNMP as an impossibly high positive value.
Workaround:
Use tmsh show sys hardware to view blade temperatures. Negative temperatures are properly reported.
config # tmsh show /sys hardware
Sys::Hardware
Blade Temperature Status
Slot Index Lo Limit(C) Temp(degC) Hi Limit(C) Location
1 1 0 19 49 Blade air outlet temperature 1
1 2 0 14 41 Blade air inlet temperature 1
1 3 0 21 57 Blade air outlet temperature 2
1 4 0 16 41 Blade air inlet temperature 2
1 5 0 25 60 Mezzanine air outlet temperatur
1 6 0 27 72 Mezzanine HSB temperature 1
1 7 0 17 63 Blade PECI-Bridge local tempera
1 8 0 -48 0 Blade CPU #1 TControl Delta tem
1 9 0 25 68 Mezzanine BCM56846 proximity te
1 10 0 22 69 Mezzanine BCM5718 proximity tem
1 11 0 19 57 Mezzanine Nitrox3 proximity tem
1 12 0 16 46 Mezzanine SHT21 Temperature
617620 : Firewall rule with Multicast/Link Local IPv6 addresses netmask bigger than 32 will not work
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
For AFM firewall rule with IPV6 source or destination addresses matching multicast or link local pattern, if the netmask is set to greater than 32, the rule will not match.
Conditions:
IPV6 source or destination addresses matching patterns:
FF02:xxxx::
FE08:xxxx::
Impact:
The firewall rule will not be applied if there's traffic matching the rule.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Fixed an issue with AFM firewall rule netmasks
617544 : References to DTLS may show up in client logs even when DTLS is disabled
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Edge client logs contain entries that reference DTLS even when DTLS is disabled and is not used.
Conditions:
DTLS is disabled on APM and user establishes a VPN tunnel to APM using TLS.
Impact:
May cause confusion during troubleshooting connection issues; the log entries can be ignored if DTLS is not configured.
Workaround:
Ignore references to DTLS when DTLS is disabled.
Fix:
References to DTLS no longer show up in client logs even when DTLS is disabled.
617391 : Device sync constantly showing Changes Pending when using custom ASM Search Engines
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
The Device sync status will constantly show "Changes Pending" when a custom ASM Search Engine is added with a new Bot Name to an existing Search Engine name.
For example, the Yandex search engine is a built-in search engine with Bot Name "Yandex". When adding a custom search engine with the same name "Yandex", but a different Bot Name, for example "yandexbot", the issue will happen.
When the issue appears, the device sync status shows "Changes Pending". Running a config-sync will bring the status to "In Sync", but a few seconds later, the status will change back to "Changes Pending".
Conditions:
1. Multiple devices are joined in sync-failover device-group and ASM sync is enabled.
2. (AND) A custom ASM Search Engine is added with a new Bot Name but an existing Search Engine Name.
Impact:
1. Device sync status constantly showing Changes Pending
2. The custom ASM Search Engine may not be bypassed for JavaScript challenges which are sent as a result of either the Web Scraping Feature, or Device-ID. This applies also to standalone deployments.
Workaround:
Add the custom ASM Search Engine under a new name. For example, if adding the "yandexbox" search engine, then use the Search Engine name "Yandex-yandexbot" instead of simple "Yandex".
Fix:
The device sync status properly remains "In Sync" when custom ASM Search Engines are added.
617335 : Deleting self IP prompting error with subnet network address
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Incorrect error message when attempting to delete the last non-floating self IP
Conditions:
Attempting to delete the last non-floating self IP
Impact:
Incorrect error message indicates that it includes the self IP being deleted but actually includes the network address of the self IP
Workaround:
Interpret the error message to indicate that one or more floating self IPs are configured in the specified network and that they must be removed before deleting the non-floating self IP.
617310 : Edge client can fail to upgrade when Always Connected is selected★
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Attempt to upgrade from an Edge client version to a current version fails when Always Connected is enabled
Conditions:
Always Connected is selected in BIG-IP when upgrading the client.
Impact:
Upgrade fails. Must turn off Always Connected to upgrade client.
Workaround:
Turn off Always Connected before upgrading.
Fix:
Edge client now succeeds during upgrade when Always Connected is selected.
617307 : FastL4 with full PVA acceleration: Average connections per second decreased 5-7% since v12.1.1 on i5800 platforms
Component: Performance
Symptoms:
Custom BIG-IP hardware provides a significant assist to the main CPU complex for FastL4 traffic with full PVA acceleration enabled; however, the main CPU still performs significant per-connection packet processing. Bug fixes and stability improvements in v12.1.1-HF1 and -HF2 have increased this load slightly. With a traffic profile that results in a high number of new connections and very little data exchanged per connection, if the CPU reaches 100% utilization, the average connections per second will be decreased.
Conditions:
BIG-IP v12.1.1_HF1 and _HF2, with a virtual server configured for FastL4 traffic, and including a profile that enables Full PVA Acceleration is affected. The traffic includes an extreme number of new connections, with minimal data exchanged during each connection. i5800 appliances have shown a 5-7% decrease.
Impact:
The average CPS will decrease over the same configuration running v12.1.1 by approximately 5 percent, as observed with internal F5 traffic stress testing.
617229 : Local policy rule descriptions disappear when policy is re-saved
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Local policy rule descriptions disappear when policy is re-saved.
Conditions:
A rule with description exists, and the policy it's under is saved.
Impact:
An existing rule description disappears when the policy it's under is saved.
Workaround:
Use TMSH to modify the policy's properties.
Fix:
Local policy rule descriptions now remain visible when policy is re-saved.
617187 : APM CustomDialer can't connect to APM server with invalid/untrusted SSL certificate
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If APM server uses untrusted SSL certificate/or it is accessed using IP address CustomDilaer, access is refused and there is no prompt to confirm the security warning.
Conditions:
APM has invalid certificate
User uses CustomDialer to access VPN
Impact:
VPN connection can't be established
Workaround:
Use valid SSL certificate on APM or add particular invalid certificate to trusted store on Windows
Fix:
Now CustomDialer warns user about invalid certificate and allows to proceed with invalid certificate.
617161 : Cosmetic: duplicated partition names in the "Resource Management" window when assigning iRules to Virtual Servers.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
There is a cosmetic issue that results in duplicated partition names in the "Resource Management" window when assigning iRules to Virtual Servers (in Local Traffic ›› Virtual Servers : Virtual Server List ›› Virtual_Server_name).
Conditions:
1) Go to Local Traffic :: Virtual Servers : Virtual Server List :: Virtual_Server_name --: Resources --: Manage iRules).
2) Move any 2 available iRules (created in Common partition) left to the "Enabled" column.
3) Select the bottom iRule from the "Enabled" column and click the "Up" button.
4) Add an additional iRule (created in Common partition) to the "Enabled" column.
Impact:
Instead of showing all iRules under one partition name (Common), the system is duplicating the partition name.
Workaround:
None. This is cosmetic.
Fix:
Partition names are no longer duplicated in the "Resource Management" window when assigning iRules to Virtual Servers.
617124-1 : Cannot map hardware type (12) to HardwareType enumeration
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
iControl-SOAP throws an error whenever a method call to SystemInfo::get_hardware_information() is made.
Conditions:
This is reproducible in under all conditions.
Impact:
iControl-SOAP crashes when this call is made.
Workaround:
Don't call this SystemInfo::get_hardware_information().
Fix:
Call this method no longer leads to a crash.
617063 : 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
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
After VPN tunnel is established, if network is switched and a Captive Portal is present in the new network, EdgeClient fails to re-establish VPN tunnel.
Conditions:
VPN tunnel is established. Place the computer in hibernation. Resume from hibernation and connect to a new network where a Captive Portal is present, e.g. Starbucks.
Impact:
EdgeClient may show an error page for captive portal or stay in Reconnecting state for extended period. Disconnect button may not be responsive.
Fix:
If captive portal is detected during reconnect, close VPN resources before showing captive portal authentication page.
617014 : tmm core using PEM
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
tmm core when using PEM with cloning monitored traffic
Conditions:
Using PEM with iRules and cloning traffic
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
The problem with PEM and cloning traffic via iRule has been corrected.
617002 : SWG with Response Analytics agent in a Per-Request policy fails with some URLs
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
SWG with Response Analytics agent in a Per-Request policy fails with some URLs
Conditions:
Response analytics agent is added to per-request policy and per-request policy is attached to the virtual. APM and SWG are provisioned and licensed.
Impact:
Client might receive resets for some URLs when response analytics doesn't function correctly.
Workaround:
Remove response analytics agent from the per-request policy and perform categorization based only on URLs.
Fix:
Correctly handle the response analytics for these URLs and dont send resets to client.
616864 : BIND vulnerability CVE-2016-2776
Vulnerability Solution Article: K18829561
616838-2 : Citrix Remote desktop resource custom parameter name does not accept hyphen character
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
While adding the custom parameter in Citrix Resource would give parser error as following,
01070734:3: Configuration error: apm resource remote-desktop /Common/ctx_resource: Parse error on line 1: DesktopViewer-ForceFullScreenStartup=On"
Conditions:
Having Citrix resource with custom parameter name with hyphen character
Impact:
Custom parameter can not be used with hyphen character
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Accept custom parameter name with hyphen character
616242 : basic_string::compare error in encrypted SSL key file if the first line of the file is blank★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Trying to load a configuration that references an encrypted SSL key file may fail if the first line of the SSL key file is blank. When this occurs, the system will report a vague error message:
01070711:3: basic_string::compare
If this happens during an upgrade, the system will not load the configuration under the new software version, and will remain inoperative.
Conditions:
This can occur if an affected configuration is present on a system running BIG-IP v11.3.0 or earlier, and is upgraded to BIG-IP v11.4.0 or later.
Impact:
Configuration fails to load on upgrade with extremely unhelpful error message, and absolutely no indication as to what file was being processed at the time (or that this relates to a filestore file).
Workaround:
Remove the newlines at the beginning of any SSL key files that begin with a newline. During an upgrade scenario, edit the files in the filestore.
616215 : TMM can core when using LB::detach and TCP::notify commands in an iRule
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM cores when running an iRule that has the LB::detach command before the TCP::notify command.
Conditions:
A virtual server with an iRule that has the LB::detach command executed before the TCP::notify command.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Avoid the combination of the TCP::notify and LB::detach commands.
Fix:
TMM no longer cores in this instance.
616106 : Client-type in access policy does not detect Edge Client after failing authentication.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Users connecting to a virtual server using Edge Client and fails authentication are directed to the policy's deny page, which directs them to a new session link.
Once the user clicks that link, the new session is launched, but the user is denied and keeps getting directed to the same Deny page with a link to new session.
Conditions:
Have an access policy that allows Client-Type Edge Client but denies Full Browser/Mobile.
There is no Message Box on the Full Browser/Mobile branch in Client-Type.
Impact:
Once the user clicks new session link from the deny page, new session is launched but client-type gets detected as Full Browser/Mobile and user is denied.
This continues until user cancels the external logon dialog.
Workaround:
In the "Full or Mobile Browser" branch, add a "Message Box".
Fix:
The new behavior is that on Edge Client, the new session link will not be shown. The user can click Cancel and then Connect to try to login to the VPN again.
On browsers, the behavior is same. The link will be shown and user can click it to launch new session.
Behavior Change:
Older versions of client were being detected as Browser if user failed authentication the first time and created new session from the client UI.
With this fix, Edge client will be detected as edge client in the above scenario.
616059 : Modifying license.maxcores Not Allowed Error
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Your sync-failover device group status says "Sync Failed" and reports the following error in Device Management :: Overview "- Sync error on <device name>: Load failed from /Common/BIG-IP1 0107178a:3: Modifying license.maxcores to a value other than 8 is not allowed."
Conditions:
Non-homogeneous Virtual Editions configured with different licenses in a device group, or with hardware-based BIG-IPs. If the license variable called perf_VE_cores is different among licenses, it will create this condition.
Impact:
The device group will fail to sync.
Workaround:
If you are using Virtual Editions in a Device Group, ensure that their licenses are the same.
Fix:
The variable doesn't sync so there is no error message.
616022 : The BIG-IP monitor process fails to process timeout conditions
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Pool members that are down are not marked down by the monitor. The BIG-IP system continues to attempt to monitor the object.
Conditions:
It is not known exactly what triggers this condition. It was encountered on an https monitor.
Impact:
Incorrect monitor state. Pool members may not be marked down even though the target pool-member is down.
Workaround:
No known work-around
Fix:
The monitor process no longer inadvertently skips processing monitor timeouts and correctly marks monitored objects down.
615824-2 : REST API calls to invalid REST endpoint log level change
Component: iApp Technology
Symptoms:
In Big-IP 12.x versions before 12.1.2 invalid requests to a REST endpoint were being recorded in the FINE level logs, making it difficult to audit when an invalid request to a REST endpoint was coming in. In version 12.1.2, the log level was changed to INFO so that these messages are more easily consumed by users attempting to audit the log.
Conditions:
Any request made to an invalid REST endpoint will trigger a log message at the FINE level indicating that a request came in to an invalid REST endpoint.
Impact:
Auditing the REST Framework logs is more difficult, requiring you to look at messages logged at the FINE level.
Workaround:
Users can increase the log level of the REST Framework to FINE by making the following change to the file '/etc/restjavad.log.conf':
Before:
.level=FINE
After:
.level=INFO
Fix:
This message is included in the INFO log level on BIG-IP v12.1.2.
615407 : EAM core during shutdown
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
During a graceful system shutdown, a core file eam.bld1.0.1447.core.gz may be created in /var/core.
Conditions:
This can occur intermittently during normal shutdown when Oracle Access Manager is configured.
Impact:
There is no impact to system operation, since this occurs on shutdown.
Workaround:
No workaround needed. There is no impact to system operation, since this occurs on shutdown.
Fix:
EAM no longer cores during shutdown.
615388 : L7 policies using normalized HTTP URI or Referrer operands may corrupt memory
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM may restart when using a L7 policy that contains the 'normalized' keyword for HTTP URI or Referrer operands.
Conditions:
Normalized HTTP URI or Referrer operands used in L7 policies.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while TMM restarts.
Workaround:
No workaround short of removing use of normalization for HTTP URI and Referrer instances in L7 policies.
Fix:
Use of URI or Referrer normalization in L7 policies no longer results in memory corruption.
615377 : Unexpected rate limiting of unreachable and ICMP messages for some addresses.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The BIG-IP system might fail to send RSTs, ICMP unreachable, or ICMP echo responses for some addresses.
/var/log/ltm might contain messages similar to the following:
-- Limiting icmp unreach response from 251 to 250 packets/sec.
-- Limiting icmp ping response from 251 to 250 packets/sec.
-- Limiting closed port RST response from 251 to 250 packets/sec.
Conditions:
Certain traffic patterns to addresses in two or more different traffic-groups.
Impact:
Certain response messages from addresses in one or more traffic-groups (but not all) might be rate limited by the BIG-IP system even though the level of traffic has not exceeded the tm.maxrejectrate setting.
Workaround:
None known.
Fix:
The rate limiting messages in the ltm log will now include the name of the traffic group that is being rate limited.
Example old log message:
warning tmm[6167]: 011e0001:4: Limiting icmp ping response from 251 to 250 packets/sec.
Example new log message:
warning tmm[19109]: 011e0001:4: Limiting icmp ping response from 251 to 250 packets/sec for traffic group /Common/traffic-group-1.
Behavior Change:
The rate limiting messages in the ltm log will now include the name of the traffic group that is being rate limited.
Example old log message:
warning tmm[6167]: 011e0001:4: Limiting icmp ping response from 251 to 250 packets/sec.
Example new log message:
warning tmm[19109]: 011e0001:4: Limiting icmp ping response from 251 to 250 packets/sec for traffic group /Common/traffic-group-1.
615338-1 : The value returned by "matchregion" in an iRule is inconsistent in some cases.
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The value returned by "matchregion" in an iRule is inconsistent when the GTM global setting, "cache-ldns-servers", is set to "yes" and the region contains a region, continent, country, state, or ISP.
Conditions:
The GTM global setting, "cache-ldns-servers" must be set to "yes" and the region must contain a region, continent, country, state, or ISP.
Impact:
The value returned by "matchregion" in an iRule is inconsistent and may lead to inconsistent behavior in the iRule.
Workaround:
Set the GTM global setting, "cache-ldns-servers" to "no".
Fix:
"Matchregion" returns the correct value under all conditions.
615254 : Network Access Launch Application item fails to launch in some cases
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If multiple applications are configured to automatically launch on network access, only the first application will launch.
Conditions:
Network access resource has multiple applications configured
Impact:
Only the first application launches. Other applications won't launch automatically.
Workaround:
Launch applications manually after VPN is established.
Fix:
Multiple applications are now detected and launched correctly.
615143 : VDI plugin-initiated connections may select inappropriate SNAT address
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When the VDI plugin makes outgoing connections, the source address is selected from a SNAT pool. Should the connection pass through another matching virtual before reaching the external network, the selected SNAT address may be inappropriate for the egress vlan.
Conditions:
APM configuration with VDI functionality enabled and additional virtual matching the VDI-initiated connections.
Impact:
Return traffic from destination may not be able to return to the BIG-IP, thus breaking the VDI functionality.
Workaround:
No workaround short of removing the additional virtual matching the VDI traffic.
Fix:
Outgoing VDI connections now select an appropriate SNAT address even when passing through additional matching virtuals before reaching the external network.
615107-2 : Cannot SSH from AOM/SCCP to host without password (host-based authentication).
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Issuing commands from the AOM/SCCP menu to the host do not function, or password is required when SSH from AOM/SCCP to the host.
Conditions:
Presence of /etc/ssh directory on host.
Impact:
AOM/SCCP unable to connect to host without password.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Can now SSH from AOM/SCCP to host without password (host-based authentication).
614891 : Routing table doesn't get updated when EDGE client roams among wireless networks
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Clients using the EDGE client report that they are unable to reach the VPN when they switch wifi networks.
Conditions:
This is triggered when a device running the EDGE client is on a wifi network, then roams to another wifi network that has a different default route.
Impact:
Clients have an incorrect route to the VPN and are forced to re-connect.
614865-4 : Overwrite flag in iControl functions key/certificate_import_from_pem functions is ignored and might result in errors.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Overwrite flag in iControl functions key/certificate_import_from_pem functions is ignored and might result in errors.
Specifically, the functions are:
key_import_from_pem()
certificate_import_from_pem()
key_import_from_pem_v2()
certificate_import_from_pem_v2()
Conditions:
When there is an existing key or certificate on the BIG-IP system, and you want to overwrite them using key_import_from_pem(), certificate_import_from_pem(), key_import_from_pem_v2(), or certificate_import_from_pem_v2() iControl calls, it results in errors stating that the key or certificate already exists on the BIG-IP system.
Impact:
Cannot overwrite the key/certificate file-objects using these iControl calls.
Workaround:
There are two workarounds:
- Delete and import the key/certificate using key_import_from_pem(), certificate_import_from_pem(), key_import_from_pem_v2(), or certificate_import_from_pem_v2() iControl calls.
- Use key_import_from_file and certificate_import_from_file iControl calls as an alternative to import key/certificate from a file.
Fix:
Overwrite flag in iControl functions key/certificate_import_from_pem_v2() functions are now processed correctly and no longer produce errors.
614586 : tmm assert "invalid racoon2 block header prefix"
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
tmm asserted and cored.
Conditions:
IPsec IKEv2 in use.
Impact:
tmm restarts and all connections are reset.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The tmm will continue processing by logging and discarding the invalid memory block.
614563 : AVR TPS calculation is inaccurate
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
The TPS that AVR calculates for DoS is 11% more than the real TPS.
Conditions:
DoS profile attached to the virtual server.
Impact:
Attack can wrongly be detected.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
TPS that AVR calculates for DoS now reflects the actual TPS.
614530 : Dynamic ECMP routes missing from Linux host
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When an ECMP route is learned via dynamic routing, it is not added to the Linux host and local processes may not be able to reach the destination prefix. Load balanced traffic is not affected.
Conditions:
Dynamic routing in use, ECMP configured, ECMP route received from neighbors.
Impact:
Monitors may fail, other host-originated traffic may be sent out the wrong interface or nowhere at all.
Workaround:
Disable ECMP in ZebOS by setting "maximum-paths 1" in imish.
Fix:
ECMP routes are correctly added to the Linux host.
614509 : iRule use of 'all' keyword with 'class match' on large external datagroups may result in TMM restart
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When the 'all' keyword is used with 'class match' on large external datagroups, the results will be incorrect and may result in TMM restarting.
Conditions:
iRule utilizing 'all' keyword with 'class match' on large external datagroups. A more unusual case is external datagroups with the tmm.classallocatemetadata bigdb entry set to the non-default 'disable' value.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
No reasonable workaround short of not using 'all' keyword with 'class match' in iRules.
Fix:
'all' keyword with 'class match' now returns the correct results and TMM does not restart.
614486 : BGP community lower bytes of zero is not allowed to be set in route-map
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The bgpd process does not accept community attributes that contain values of the form ASN:0.
Conditions:
set the BGP community value to a value of form ASN:0
Impact:
if you attempt to configure a BGP daemon community attribute with a value of the form ASN:0, the system does not set the community value. This could also impact upgrading from the old versions to the version that doesn't support community values of the form ASN:0.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
BGP community can be set to values of the form ASN:0.
614441 : False Positive for illegal method (GET)
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
False Positive for illegal method (GET) and errors in BD log on Apply Policy:
----
ECARD|ERR |Sep 04 07:38:47.992|23835|table.h:0287|KEY_REMOVE: Failed to REMOVE data
----
Conditions:
This was seen after upgrade and/or failover.
Impact:
-- False positives.
-- BD has the incorrect security configuration.
Workaround:
Run the following command: restart asm.
614296 : Dynamic routing process ripd may core
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
As a result of a known issue the dynamic routing protocol daemon ripd, used for the RIP protocol may produce a core file when configuring it to use a interface configured with multiple self IP addresses on different subnets on the same VLAN.
Conditions:
- Use the RIP dynamic routing on an affected version.
- Have multiple self IP addresses belonging to different subnets on the same VLAN
- Add one of the subnets with the network command within the "router RIP" stanza.
Impact:
ripd will core and the configuration will not be allowed.
Workaround:
Configure one subnet/self IP address per VLAN.
Fix:
ripd no longer cores when configured with multiple subnets on the same VLAN.
614284 : Performance fix to not reset a data structure in the packet receive hotpath.
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
No symptoms. This is a performance fix.
Conditions:
This will happen always in the packet receive hotpath.
Impact:
No impact. Without this fix BIG-IP could have 0.5% (hard to measure) performance impact.
Workaround:
No workaround.
Fix:
Made an optimization to the packet receive hotpath.
614180 : ASM is not available in LTM policy when ASM is licensed as the main active module
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
ASM is not available in LTM policy rule creation when ASM is licensed as the main active module
Conditions:
ASM is licensed as the main active module
Impact:
ASM is not available in LTM policy rule creation
Workaround:
Use a license that has ASM as a sub-module. For example, LTM with Best Bundle.
Fix:
Fixed license data parsing so that the main module is also included in the license map used to determine whether a module is licensed or not.
614147 : SOCKS proxy defect resolution
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Internal F5 code review found potential errors.
Conditions:
Virtual server configured with SOCKS proxy.
Impact:
Erroneous behavior of SOCKS proxy
Fix:
Resolved issues found in SOCKS proxy.
614097 : HTTP Explicit proxy defect resolution
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Internal F5 code reviewed found potential errors.
Conditions:
Virtual server configured with HTTP Explicit proxy.
Impact:
Erroneous behavior of HTTP Explicit proxy
Fix:
Resolved issues found in HTTP Explicit proxy.
614072 : Source Address Translation to SNAT pool breaks SWG explicit use case for IP based session.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
All SWG session maps to SNAT pool IP and many requests will get stuck.
Conditions:
SWG virtual with Source Address Translation to SNAT pool, create session and send traffic for expired session
Impact:
Request will get stuck in ACCESS filter and browser will keep looping..
Workaround:
Change source address translation to AUTOMAP instead of SNAT Pool.
Fix:
Store client IP into scratch memory and use it to session lookup/creation instead of SNAT Pool IP.
613788 : List GTM pools and wideips in a partition may result in objects from all partitions
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Listing GTM pools or wideips from the GUI, tmsh, iControl in a particular partition may return objects from all partitions.
Conditions:
GTM provisioned, multiple partitions configured, and GTM pools or wide IPs configuration in multiple partitions.
Impact:
BIG-IP users may be able to view objects that are in partitions they don't have access to.
Workaround:
No workaround other than don't use multiple partitions.
Fix:
This was an issue unique to GTM pools and wide IPs that resulted in the wrong set of objects being returned despite the partition context being given. The issue has been corrected, so that only valid objects are displayed for different users in different partitions.
613765 : Creating 0.0.0.0:0 Virtual Server in TMUI results in slow-loading virtual server page and name resolution errors.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Creating 0.0.0.0:0 Virtual Server in TMUI results in slow-loading virtual server page and name resolution errors.
Conditions:
When a virtual server with a destination address of 0.0.0.0:0 is in the list, sorting the list is slow because of extra name resolution performed.
Impact:
Degraded user experience waiting for the extra logic and misleading error in logs.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Creating 0.0.0.0:0 Virtual Server in TMUI no longer results in slow-loading virtual server page and name resolution errors.
613618 : The TMM crashes in the websso plugin.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The TMM core and plugins operate asynchronously. A connection may abort and the TMM may deallocate connection context before the plugin has finished processing asynchronous events. The TMM crashes when a plugin accesses deallocated connection context.
Conditions:
Events raised during normal use of the sessiondb store may be processed after the connection context has been deallocated.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
The TMM will no longer crash.
613613-3 : Incorrect handling of form that contains a tag with id=action
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases, a form with an absolute path in the action is handled incorrectly in Internet Explorer (IE) versions 7, 8, and 9. The resulting action path is wrong and the form cannot be submitted.
Conditions:
This issue occurs under these conditions:
-- HTML Form with absolute action path.
-- A tag with id=action inside this form.
-- A submit button in the form.
-- IE versions 7 through 9.
Impact:
The impact of this issue is that the web application can not work as expected.
Workaround:
This issue has no workaround at this time.
Fix:
Forms with absolute action paths and tag with id=action inside are handled correctly.
613576 : QOS load balancing links display as gray
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
All links in all data centers appear gray. After this patch all link appear to be green and the functional of load balancing to the first available link in each pool is restored.
Conditions:
This bug only affects devices licensed after 9/1/2016 which contain the gtm_lc: disabled field.
Impact:
Any GTM/LC devices licensed after 9/1/2016 and using links as part of their configuration will have the links reported as gray.
Workaround:
Remove all ilnks from configuration or install this hotfix.
613574 : Snapshots may be kept longer than expected in the file store
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Files in /config/filestore/.snapshots_d may be kept longer than expected. This error message may be generated by mcpd later on:
01071350:3: subscriber(%icr_eventd): Snapshot for req_id(12345) getting removed due to timeout.
Conditions:
These will be generated on any creation of file objects, such as iFile objects, SSL keys, or certificates.
Impact:
A slight amount of additional disk space may be used. The error message may be ignored; it does not indicate a harmful state. Traffic is not at risk of being dropped.
Workaround:
A timer will automatically clean up these files after one hour. Alternately, run 'bigstart restart icr_eventd'.
613536-1 : tmm core while running the iRule STATS:: command
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
With an iRule that runs the STATS::set command inside the ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED event, tmm cores.
Conditions:
STATS:: command invoked inside the ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED event. This event does not have all of the connection information so invoking STATS:: to store data from the connection will fail and cause tmm to crash.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Do not use STATS::set inside ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED
613509 : 2000/4000 platform reuses source port too fast when fastL4 virtual sets source-port preserve
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
2000/4000 platforms only support IPPORT hash due to the hardware nature of the platform. That means the source port has to change even if fastL4 virtual sets source-port preserve. A software defect causes fast source port reuse when fastL4 virtual sets source-port preserve.
Conditions:
fastL4 virtual sets source-port preserve.
Impact:
Can cause throughput degradation.
Workaround:
Set source-port to change.
Fix:
2000/4000 platform now reuses source port at the correct rate when fastL4 virtual sets source-port preserve.
613483 : Some SSL certificate SHA verification fails for different SHA prefix used by crypto codec.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
For PKCS#1, the SHA256 header should be:
30 31 30 0d 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 01 05 00 04 20.
However, there might also be this alternate header:
30 2f 30 0b 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 01 04 20,
Some implementation use the alternate. According to PKCS#1, the first one is used when producing signature, but both should be accepted when verifying signatures.
In BIG-IP, SSL uses the 1st header: 30 31 30 0d 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 01 05 00 04 20, whereas crypto uses the 2nd header format for some cert verification: 30 2f 30 0b 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 01 04 20, which causes the inconsistent and signature verification fail.
Conditions:
For some particular certificates, crypto uses alternative SHA prefix for verification.
Impact:
SSL handshake fails because of certificate verification failure.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Added crypto codec support for PKCS 1 RSA padding that adds hash DER encoding.
613459 : Non-common browsers blocked by Proactive Bot Defense
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
Some non-common browsers may get blocked by the Proactive Bot Defense feature. This has been seen in rare cases, and causes these browsers to remain in a white page while the request is not being sent to the back-end server.
Conditions:
Proactive Bot Defense enable on the DoS profile.
Impact:
In rare cases, some non-common browsers may get blocked.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Non-common browsers no longer get blocked when Proactive Bot Defense is enabled.
613429 : Unable to assign wildcard wide IPs to various BIG-IP DNS objects.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Assigning a wide IP with wildcard characters in the name to a DHS distributed application may not work properly when done via tmsh, and such configurations created via the GUI will result in configuration files that fail to load.
Conditions:
A wide IP with a wildcard character in its name.
Impact:
Unable to assign wide IP to BIG-IP DNS distributed-app.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Fixed issue preventing wide IPs to be assigned to BIG-IP DNS distributed apps if those wide IPs have a wildcard character in their name.
613415 : Memory leak in ospfd when distribute-list is used
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Memory might be leaked when a distribute-list is used to filter routes between OSPFv2 and the Routing Information Base (RIB). The leak may lead to a the daemon being terminated via the oom-killer.
Conditions:
OSPFv2 in use with a distribute-list, and Link State Advertisements (LSAs) in the database whose prefixes will be filtered by the distribute-list.
Impact:
ospfd may leak memory until the system terminates the process via the oom-killer.
Workaround:
Position the BIG-IP system in the network so there are no LSAs that need to be filtered using a distribute-list, such as in a stub area.
Fix:
ospfd no longer leaks memory when a distribute-list is configured.
613396 : Invalid XML Policy Exported for Policies with Metachar Overrides on Websocket URLs
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Exported Policy in XML format cannot be imported.
Conditions:
Metacharacter overrides are defined on a Websocket URL in the policy.
Impact:
Exported XML policies cannot be imported back into the system without manual manipulation
Workaround:
If such a policy has already been exported only manual manipulation would allow it to be imported again.
Fix:
Policy export now correctly creates valid XML Policies for configurations with metachar overrides configured on Websocket URLs.
613369 : Half-Open TCP Connections Not Discoverable
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
New TCP connection requests are reset after a specific sequence of TCP packets.
Conditions:
A TCP connection in half-open state.
Impact:
Half-open TCP connections are not discoverable
Fix:
Properly acknowledge half-open TCP connections.
613297 : Default generic message routing profile settings may core
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
If a virtual is created using the default generic message profile, the first packet received will produce an infinite number of messages and overflow the internal buffers.
Conditions:
The default generic message profile has the internal parser enabled but a zero byte message separator pattern. This causes the parser when receiving traffic to create an infinite number of empty packets and overflow the system.
Impact:
The infinite number of message will cause an internal panic producing a core. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Each usage of generic message should either provide a separator pattern or disable the internal parser.
Fix:
In this release, the system automatically disables the internal parser if no separator is provided, so if a virtual is created using the default generic message profile, the first packet received no longer produces an infinite number of messages and overflows the internal buffers.
613282 : NodeJS vulnerability CVE-2016-2086
Vulnerability Solution Article: K15311661
613225 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6306
Vulnerability Solution Article: K90492697
613088 : pkcs11d thread has session initialization problem.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
pkcs11d does not initialize, especially in the secondary slot(s). SafeNet connections cannot be established on the secondary blades.
Conditions:
This occurs when SafeNet is configured with VIPRION chassis
Impact:
When this occurs, BIG-IP is unable to establish SafeNet connections from the secondary blades.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Fixed a pkcs11d thread session initialization problem that prevented SafeNet connections.
613079 : Diameter monitor watchdog timeout fires after only 3 seconds
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The Diameter monitor has a 3-second timeout that overrides the interval and timeout settings configured for the monitor.
Conditions:
A Diameter monitor must be configured.
Impact:
If the Diameter server takes longer than 3 seconds to reply to requests, it will be marked down.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Removed the 3-second Diameter monitor watchdog timeout so that interval and timeout can be used like other external monitors.
613065 : User can't generate netHSM key with Safenet 6.2 client using GUI
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
With Safenet6.2, creating key using GUI may hang and timeout. The GUI eventually quits with error message.
Conditions:
Installing Safenet6.2 client and attempting to create netHSM key from the GUI
Impact:
netHSM key creation fails, GUI hang.
Workaround:
You can use the corresponding tmsh command to create key.
Fix:
NetHSM key waiting time has been increased and you can now create a netHSM key using GUI.
613045-6 : Interaction between GTM and 10.x LTM results in some virtual servers marked down
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Some GTM virtual servers are never marked up when interacting with 10.x LTM.
Conditions:
1. On a GTM server, with autoconf off, manually create a virtual server that is using translated IP/port and either no LTM virtual server name or an incorrect LTM virtual server name.
2. Make sure the LTM virtual server is available.
Impact:
On the GTM side, that LTM virtual server will never get marked up.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Interaction between GTM and 10.x LTM now works, so virtual servers are correctly marked up.
612874 : iRule with FLOW_INIT stage execution can cause TMM restart
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
If you have an iRule that has FLOW_INIT stage execution, it is likely to result in random TMM crashes.
Conditions:
iRule that has FLOW_INIT stage action in it.
The FLOW_INIT stage iRule could be executed either because it was attached to a Virtual Server or configured on an AFM ACL Rule.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Do not use iRule with FLOW_INIT action. Other stage iRules does not cause this problem.
Fix:
Memory allocation and release during iRule FLOW_INIT execution was not handled right in a specific scenario, which was corrected.
612809 : Bootup script fails to run on on a vCMP guest due to a missing reference file.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Script /etc/sysconfig/sysinit/10virtual-platform.sysinit fails to run. sod log spamming.
Conditions:
Startup in a vCMP guest.
Impact:
vCMP guests shows dbg_echo related errors in /var/log/boot.log.
Workaround:
Disable sys db variable "failover.usetty01" and restart sod.
If unable to restart sod at the moment, apply a filter with no publisher matching message-id 012a0003:
sys log-config filter no-serial-failover-logs {
message-id 012a0003
}
Fix:
This release adds a separate sysinit file for vCMP instead of using sysinit-virtual-platform.
612769 : Added better search capabilities on the Pool Members Manage page.
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
With hundreds of potential pool members the GUI was not making it easy to search for them. The combobox was only allowing for searches that matched the beginning of the pool member's name.
Conditions:
Have more than just a few potential pool members.
Impact:
Frustrating user experience.
Workaround:
No workaround.
Fix:
Added better search capabilities on the Pool Members Manage page.
612758 : Exception within function F5_Inflate_innerHTML.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Using the Mozilla FireFox browser might cause portal access to keep reloading.
Conditions:
Web-application contains object created by application code with following properties:
o = {tagName: true, setAttribute: true}
o.innerHTML = "any_value";
Impact:
Web-application does not work as expected.
Workaround:
Use the following iRule (customization required for /PATTERN_PATH):
# Updated workaround for SR 1-2326181581
when REWRITE_REQUEST_DONE {
if { [HTTP::path] contains "/PATTERN_PATH" } {
# log "URI=([HTTP::path])"
# Found the file we wanted to modify
REWRITE::post_process 1
}
}
when REWRITE_RESPONSE_DONE {
set strt [string first {<script>} [REWRITE::payload]]
if {$strt > 0} {
REWRITE::payload replace $strt 0 {
<script>
if (typeof F5_Inflate_index !== 'undefined' && typeof F5_old_Inflate_index === 'undefined') {
var F5_old_Inflate_index = F5_Inflate_index;
F5_Inflate_index = function(o, s, incr, v) {
if (typeof v !== 'boolean') return F5_old_Inflate_index (o,s,incr,v);
return (o[s] = incr ? o[s] + v : v)
}
}
</script>
}
}
}
Fix:
Using the Mozilla FireFox browser no longer causes portal access to keep reloading.
612752-2 : UCS load or upgrade may fail under certain conditions.★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
UCS load fails, with the following error message: loaddb[20786]: 01080023:3: Error return while getting reply from mcpd: 0x10718e6, 010718e6:3: The requested primary admin user (user1) must exist in local user database.
Conditions:
Root login is disabled and the primary administrative user is set to anything other than 'admin', the default.
Impact:
UCS load or upgrade will fail.
Workaround:
Before upgrading or generating the UCS, re-enable the root account by setting DB variable systemauth.disablerootlogin to 'false'.
Unset the custom primary administrative user by setting DB variable systemauth.primaryadminuser to 'admin'.
These settings may be safely reinstated after the upgrade is complete.
612694 : TCP::close with no pool member results in zombie flows
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
'tmsh show sys conn all-properties' shows connections whose idle time exceeds the timeout.
Conditions:
There is no pool member, and a TCP::close iRule activates (typically after a TCP::respond).
Impact:
Connection does not tear itself down.
Workaround:
Make TCP::close conditional on pool failure, and rely on the pool failure to RST the connection rather than perform a clean TCP close.
Fix:
The system now properly handles TCP teardown when TCP::close has already torn down the rest of the stack.
612554 : Some SSL certificate SHA verification fails for different SHA prefix used by Crypto
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
For PKCS#1, the SHA256 header should be:
30 31 30 0d 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 01 05 00 04 20.
However, there might also be this alternate header:
30 2f 30 0b 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 01 04 20,
Some implementation use the alternate. According to PKCS#1, the first one is used when producing signature, but both should be accepted when verifying signatures.
In BIG-IP, SSL uses the 1st header: 30 31 30 0d 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 01 05 00 04 20, whereas crypto uses the 2nd header format for some cert verification: 30 2f 30 0b 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 01 04 20, which causes the inconsistent and signature verification fail.
Conditions:
For some particular certificates, crypto uses alternative SHA prefix for verification.
Impact:
SSL handshake fails because of certificate verification failure.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
BIG-IP systems now also accept alternative SHA prefixes during the certificate SHA verification.
612419 : APM 11.4.1 HF10 - suspected memory leak (umem_alloc_32/network access (variable))
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When there are multiple network access resources, and users switch between them within the same connection, a small memory leak happens.
Conditions:
Network access; full webtop, multiple Network Access resources.
Impact:
Memory usage increases over time.
Workaround:
There is no workaround. It is a relatively slow leak though. In the case where it was observed, the leak was about 130MB per month.
Fix:
Fixed a memory leak related to network access.
612229 : TMM may crash if LTM a disable policy action for 'LTM Policy' is not last
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM may crash while processing an LTM policy.
Conditions:
- VIP with LTM policy attached.
- LTM policy contains rule with 2 or more actions.
- Policy action of disable - LTMN Policy is not the last one in the list of actions.
Impact:
TMM crash with the following in one of the /var/log/tmm log files:
notice ** SIGABRT **
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Ensure any LTM policy disable action is the last in the list of actions.
Fix:
TMM no longer crashes if LTM a disable policy action for 'LTM Policy' is not last in the list of actions in the rule.
612135 : Virtual with GenericMessage profile without MessageRouter profile will core when receiving traffic
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
Configuring a virtual server with generic message profile without message routing profile will core when a packet is received by the virtual.
Conditions:
Configuring a virtual server with generic message profile without message routing profile.
Impact:
The system will core when a packet is received by the virtual server. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Each virtual server that contains a generic message profile should also have a message routing profile.
Fix:
Validation has been improved to fail unless both a generic message profile and a message routing profile are used.
612129 : tmm crash (SIGABRT) when creating url filter with large number of categories
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When a category contains a large (about 5000) URL entries, tmm will crash on creation of a URL filter.
Conditions:
Create a category containing a large number of URLs, then create a new URL filter.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Break URLs up into smaller categories.
Fix:
Fixed a crash related to loading large URL categories
612128-6 : OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2016-6515
Vulnerability Solution Article: K31510510
612040-5 : Statistics added for all crypto queues
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Requests for crypto operations that have been issued but not yet actively queued in the crypto hardware will not show up in the "tmm/crypto" statistics table.
Conditions:
Crypto requests issued but not actively queued in the crypto hardware.
Impact:
Crypto requests do not show up in the "tmm/crypto" statistics table.
Fix:
New rows have been added to the "tmm/crypto" statistics table that will count requests that have been issued but not actively queued to the crypto hardware.
611968 : JavaScript Active content at an HTML page browsed by IE8 with significant amount of links (>1000) can run very slow
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
JavaScript Active content at an HTML page browsed by IE8 with significant amount of links (>1000) can run very slow.
Conditions:
- IE8 only.
- Significant number of links: >1000.
- JavaScript event handlers presence.
Impact:
Web application performance slowdown.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Fixed.
611922 : Policy sync fails with policy that includes custom CA Bundle.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Policy sync fails with a policy that includes a custom CA Bundle with an error similar to the following: mcpd[6191]: 01070710:3: Database error (65), Can't set attribute value, type:certificate_summary attribute:name.
Conditions:
- Add a custom certificate bundle
- Add it to a policy, e.g. create an LTM SSL CA profile and add it to the endpoint security check agent in the access policy.
- Initiate a policy sync.
Impact:
Policy sync fails.
Workaround:
Use a built-in certificate bundle on source device and sync the policy.
Import the custom certificate bundle to all devices
Replace the built-in certificate bundle with the custom one in the policy.
Fix:
Policy sync now succeeds when the policy includes a custom certificate bundle.
611704 : tmm crash with TCP::close in CLIENTSSL_CLIENTCERT iRule event
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
A tmm crash was discovered during internal testing.
Conditions:
HTTPS virtual server configured with an iRule that uses TCP::close in the CLIENTSSL_CLIENTCERT iRule event.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Fixed a tmm crash related to TCP::close in CLIENTSSL_CLIENTCERT
611669 : Mac Edge Client customization is not applied on macOS 10.12 Sierra
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Mac Edge Client's Icon, application name, company name amongst other things can be customized on BIG-IP before deploying on end user's machine. But on Mac Edge Client on macOS 10.12 Sierra this customization is not applied.
Conditions:
macOS Sierra 10.12, Edge client, customization
Impact:
Mac Edge Client customization is not applied on macOS 10.12 Sierra. Functionally there should be no impact except that user will see default application visually.
Workaround:
run following command on Terminal and re-launch Edge client:
$ defaults write -globalDomain AppleLanguages -array "en" "en-US"
Fix:
Edge client honors customization on macOS Sierra 10.12 now.
611658-4 : "less" utility logs an error for remotely authenticated users using the tmsh shell
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
when using 'less' Syntax Error: unexpected argument "/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh"
Conditions:
admin user configured with tmsh shell
Impact:
admin user cannot use the less command from shell
Workaround:
configure admin user to use the bash shell
611652 : iRule script validation presents incorrect warning for 'HTTP::cookie cookie-name' command.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
While saving an iRule containing HTTP::cookie without the value parameter, you get a validation warning: 'warning: [The following errors were not caught before. Please correct the script in order to avoid future disruption. 'unexpected end of arguments;expected argument spec:COOKIE_NAME"160 25][HTTP::cookie $cookie_name]'.
The offending iRule command looks similar to this:
[HTTP::cookie $cookie_name]
Conditions:
iRules containing HTTP::cookie, but missing the optional value parameter, e.g. [HTTP::cookie $cookie_name].
Impact:
Validation warning incorrectly occurs if the optional 'value' parameter is left off. Note that the iRule is still loaded into the configuration.
Workaround:
Use the 'value' parameter in the HTTP::cookie command:
[HTTP::cookie value $cookie_name].
611513 : Non-zero Route domain is not always used with OSCP, HTTP explicit proxy
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Customer may experience connectivity failure in certain situations where a sideband communications are required as part of the transaction. One example would be when a BIG-IP needs to check with an OSCP responder.
Conditions:
BIG-IP has http-explicit configuration, where a sideband connection is required, say in the case of getting an OCSP response or a DNS resolver response when those services are associated with a different route domain.
Impact:
End-to-end connectivity failure.
Workaround:
Change configuration so that all services required are on the default route domain, 0.
611512 : AWS: Pool member autoscaling in BIG-IP fails to add pool members when pool name is same as AWS Autoscaling Group name.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In AWS, Pool member autoscaling in BIG-IP fails to add pool members when pool name in BIG-IP is same as Autoscaling Group name in AWS.
Conditions:
- BIG-IP is configured to perform autoscaling of pool members in AWS.
- Pool name in BIG-IP is same as the autoscaling group name in AWS attached with it.
Impact:
- Pool member autoscaling doesn't occur correctly without user intervention.
Workaround:
When configuring pool member auto-scaling in AWS, you must choose a different name for the pool compared to the autoscaling group name attached with it.
Fix:
Choose different names for Pool in BIG-IP and autoscaling group in AWS to correctly configure Pool member autoscaling in BIG-IP .
611487 : vCMP: VLAN failsafe does not trigger on guest
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
vCMP: VLAN failsafe does not trigger on guest due to IPv6 link-local neighbor discovery traffic from host.
Conditions:
vCMP host configured, VLAN failsafe enabled on a VLAN, one or more VCMP guests enabled that use that VLAN
Impact:
Since the heartbeat messages going over IPv6 link-local addresses continue to be successfully passed from host to guest, VLAN failsafe does not trigger if a downstream router or switch goes down that's connected to the VLAN.
Workaround:
If you are able to, disabling IPv6 on the host will allow VLAN failsafe to work as expected.
611485 : APM AAA RADIUS server address cannot be a multicast IPv6 address.★
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In the 13.0.0 release, support for AAA RADIUS direct IPv6 is added. However, validation will prevent using a multicast address for AAA radius IPv6 address. If you upgrade from a previous version to this version, you will see a validation error when the configuration loads.
Conditions:
The validation error occurs if APM AAA RADIUS address is an IPv6 multicast address on BIG-IP version 13.0.0 and beyond.
Impact:
Support for AAA RADIUS direct IPV6 is added in BIG-IP version 13.0.0. And the new validation affects only IPv6 multicast address. So any working IPv4 configuration will not be affected by this validation.
Workaround:
Multicast IPv6 addresses are not supported for direct IPv6 RADIUS, ensure you are using unicast addresses.
Fix:
Nothing fixed. This is a new validation which needs to be documented in upgrade release note.
611482 : Local persistence record kept alive after owner persistence record times out (when using pool command in an iRule) .
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Local persistence record kept alive after owner persistence record times out (when using pool command in an iRule).
Conditions:
Universal persistence is configured. A loop of HTTP request is sent to tmm which doesn't own the record. Persistence lookup is performed, but finally the pool command is used for load-balancing pick.
Impact:
Discrepancy between persistence records.
Workaround:
Use persist, not pool command, to bind persistence record to a flow.
Fix:
Fixed keeping alive the owner record.
611469 : Traffic disrupted when malformed, signed SAML authentication request from an authenticated user is sent via SP connector
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Traffic may be disrupted or failover initiated when malformed, signed SAML authentication request from an authenticated user is sent via SP connector on a BIG-IP configured as a SAML Identity Provider (IdP).
Conditions:
- BIG-IP is configured as IdP.
- BIG-IP as IdP is configured to require Authentication request to be signed, and attached SP connector has signing certificate configured.
- External SP generates authentication request with invalid signature.
Impact:
Traffic is temporarily disrupted while services restart.
Workaround:
Reconfigure BIG-IP as IdP to remove requirement of signed authentication requests. Remove signing certificate from appropriate sp-connectors.
Fix:
Traffic no longer disrupted when a malformed SAML authentication request is forwarded via an SP connector.
611467 : TMM coredump at dhcpv4_server_set_flow_key().
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
TMM coredump at dhcpv4_server_set_flow_key().
Conditions:
1. You are using Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM) DHCP to discover subscribers.
2. You have configured a DHCP relay virtual server.
3. Two PEM DHCP subscriber connections share the same connection to a remote DHCP server.
4. One of the PEM DHCP subscriber connections expires.
5. The non-expired PEM DHCP subscriber connection sends a new DHCP request.
6. The remote PEM DHCP server responds to the new PEM subscriber request.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
The client uses broadcast to do DHCP renewal is an indication the client did not get ACK from DHCP server when it uses unicast to talk to DHCP server directly. The most likely reason for this to happen is the server routing table is not configured to send DHCP ACK packets back to the client.
You can work around this problem by configuring DHCP server routing table so that it knows how to send DHCP ACK to the client.
611325 : VPE edit action issues with Firefox if policy is in read only mode.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In Firefox, when VPE is opening a policy in read only mode, the Edit action dialogue doesn't switch to branch rules tab.
Conditions:
This occurs when using Firefox if the policy is read-only
Impact:
Subadmin is unable to view branch rules
Workaround:
Use different browser
Fix:
Fixed an issue with edit action on Firefox
611320 : Mirrored connection on Active unit of HA pair may be unexpectedly torndown
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Mirrored connection on Active unit is torn down. TCP connection is RST with cause of 'HA Expire flow'.
Conditions:
Mirrored connection on Standby unit times out due state mismatch with connection on Active unit.
Impact:
Traffic loss.
Workaround:
Disable mirroring.
Fix:
The system no longer mirrors connflow expiration from Standby to Active. This is correct behavior.
611240 : Import of config with securid might fail
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Import of the profile used for securid auth might fail if the profile has already been used for auth purposes at the moment of export.
Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
-- Profile configured for securid authenticaiton with securid server attached.
-- Profile has been used for authentication more than 0 times.
-- Full import (no reuse) or Reuse import when secureid server under the same name is not present.
Impact:
Unable to import certain configurations.
Workaround:
1. In VPE, open securid auth item and set server to none before export.
2. Export profile.
3. Import profile.
4. Re-create the aaa securid server.
5. In VPE, open the securid auth item and set server to one from step #4.
Or
1. Export profile.
2. Create aaa securid server under the same name.
2. Import profile with reuse.
It is also possible to remove securid entry from config-files of securid server configuration in .conf.tar.gz, which would also work.
Fix:
It is now possible to successfully export and the import profile using securid in any state.
611151 : An upper case JSON sensitive parameter is not masked when ASM policy is case-insensitive
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
If you configure a sensitive parameter with an upper-case character (like "Password"), the data masking does not take place. When the sensitive parameter is all lower-case (like "password"), the data masking takes place as expected.
Conditions:
ASM provisioned
ASM policy is case-insensitive
JSON profile, w/ a sensitive parameter with an upper-case character
Impact:
no data masking for a JSON sensitive parameter
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
We've made sure that JSON parameters are always treated as case sensitive, regardless of the ASM policy case sensitivity setting.
611054 : Network failover "enable" setting is sometimes ignored on chassis systems
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The failover device group network-failover attribute has an effect on chassis systems. The high availability subsystem will continue to send network failover packets, and continue to operate normally, even if this is set to "disable".
Conditions:
This only affects chassis systems. On appliances, the setting takes effect, causing all devices to become Active simultaneously.
Impact:
System appears to failover normally even when the configuration is incorrect; however, if the system contains more than one traffic-group, the next-active calculation and other failover features do not function correctly.
Workaround:
Enable network-failover in the sync-failover device-group.
610961 : pre-define default list of required attributes for AD Query
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
AD Query agent does not have any pre-defined required attributes. by default it fetches (*) all attributes from AD for a user. in some cases the response may contain huge attributes that cause vcmp synchronization and other issues
Conditions:
AD Query is configured with default (empty) required attributes list
Impact:
tmm may crash on vcmp
Workaround:
limit the list of attributes to be fetched from AD by AD Query agent (define required attributes in the list)
Fix:
some important attributes pre-defined for a newle created AD Query agent.
the list is:
"cn","displayName","distinguishedName","dn","employeeID","givenName","homeMDB","mail","memberOf","mobile","msDS-ResultantPSO","name","objectGUID","otherMobile","pager","primaryGroupID","pwdLastSet","sAMAccountName","sn","telephoneNumber","userAccountControl","userPrincipalName"
610862 : TCP retransmits unnecessarily when IPv4 ICMP frag needed and tm.enforcepathmtu disabled.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When receiving an IPv4 ICMP fragmentation needed with MTU enforcement disabled, the MSS and MTU are not updated for the connection, however TCP retransmits unacknowledged data at the existing MSS/MTU size generally resulting in further ICMP fragmentation messages and subsequent retransmissions.
Conditions:
MTU enforcement has been disabled via tm.enforcepathmtu and connection receives an IPv4 ICMP fragmentation needed.
Impact:
Repeated retransmissions until the connection is torn down.
Workaround:
No reasonable workaround except re-enabling MTU enforcement.
Fix:
TCP no longer retransmits when receiving IPv4 ICMP fragmentation needed messages, thus eliminating the unnecessary retransmissions.
610857 : DoSL7 Proactive Bot Defense should block requests from a browser (Chrome/Firefox) when it is running selenium webdriver.
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
When selenium client webdriver is detected running a browser Chrome or Firefox it is not being blocked due to low score being assigned by PBD (Suspicious Browsers) mechanism.
Conditions:
This occurs when ASM is provisioned with proactive bot defense enabled.
Impact:
A bot which running selenium Chrome or Firefox webdriver isn't mitigated by DoSL7 PBD mechanism.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Adjusted scoring for selenium detection to trigger CAPTCHA upon an attempt to access a website without TSPD101 cookie (usually occurs upon accessing a website's first page)
610609 : Total connections in bigtop, SNMP are incorrect
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
While looking at total connections for the active BIG-IP using bigtop or SNMP, the connections are reported too high. For example if you sent a single connection through BIG-IP it is reported as 2 connections. Meanwhile, the standby device with mirroring configured accurately shows the number of connections.
Conditions:
This occurs on PVA-enabled hardware platforms.
Impact:
The total connection count statistic is incorrect.
610594 : Authorization grant using auth code fails with IE11 when OAuth AS clientssl profile is using untrusted certificate
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
IE11 modifies the HTTP method from GET to POST after certificate warning ERROR_INTERNET_SEC_CERT_ERRORS.
Conditions:
When IE11 is used in conjunction with BIGIP OAuth Client and OAuth AS clientssl profile is using untrusted certificate.
Impact:
This behavior fails the protocol and AS responds with invalid_request due to missing response_type in POST body.
Workaround:
Avoid untrusted certificate in OAuth AS clientssl profile.
Fix:
Functions as designed.
610449 : restarting mcpd on guest makes block-device-images disappear
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
tmsh list sys software block-device-images typically shows available BIG-IP images saved on the platform which are available for install via tmsh install sys software ...
When running BIG-IP on a vcmp guest, GuestAgentDaemon is responsible for fetching from the host these available images and displaying them to the user.
When mcpd goes down, GuestAgentDaemon loses the connection required to fetch and display this information.
If mcpd has gone down since GuestAgentDaemon came up, running "(tmos)# show sys software block-device-image" a second time will no longer display the BIG-IP images available for install.
Restarting GuestAgentDaemon when mcpd restart ensures that GuestAgentDaemon will reestablish the required connection. With this fix, GuestAgentDaemon will restart only in response to mcpd going down and subsequently coming back up. Once both daemons are up and running again, the command '(tmos)# list sys software block-device-image' will again function as designed.
Conditions:
vCMP is provisioned to level dedicated.
One or more guests is provisioned and deployed.
The user is operating inside a deployed guest.
The user attempts to use a block-device-image,
but mcpd has restarted since GuestAgentDaemon began execution.
No block-device-images are shown by GuestAgentDaemon
Impact:
tmsh list sys software block-device-images returns nothing from inside the guest.
Workaround:
Restart GuestAgentDaemon in response to mcpd successfully restarting.
Fix:
GuestAgentDaemon now automatically restarts in response to McpDaemon successfully restarting.
610442 : lind on vcmp guest spins in restart loop if block-device-image with bad permissions is installed★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
On a vcmp guest, If a user attempts to
(tmos)# install sys software block-device-image <some.iso>,
where <some.iso> has bad file permissions
(e.g. $chmod 600 <some.iso>),
then lind on the guest will enter a restart loop.
Conditions:
On the guest, the user is running
tmsh install sys software block-device-image <some.iso>
and <some.iso> has bad permissions, e.g. -r--------
Impact:
On the guest, lind restarts continuously, logging its restart to /var/log/ltm each time.
Workaround:
Avoid installing block-device-images known to have bad permissions.
From the host, attempt to repair the file with bad permissions and copy the repaired file to /shared/images/:
$ chmod 644 <some.iso>
$ scp <some.iso> mybox:/shared/images/
From the guest, the user should run:
$ bigstart restart lind
$ tmsh install sys software block-device-image <some.iso>
Fix:
Instead of throwing a runtime error, lind will log an error to /var/log/ltm and return.
610441 : When using iControl REST to add a member to an existing pool, the pool member is successfully created. However, a 404 response is received.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When using iControl REST to add a member to an existing pool, the pool member is successfully created. However, a 404 response is received.
Conditions:
This occurs when adding a new member to an existing pool using iControl REST.
Impact:
Unable to tell if the request has succeeded or failed via iControl REST.
Workaround:
Add the following to partitionInfo in icrd.conf.
{"gtm/pool/a/members":[true, true]},
{"gtm/pool/aaaa/members":[true, true]}
610429 : X509::cert_fields iRule command may memory with subpubkey argument
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The X509::cert_fields iRule command can leak memory in the 'method' memory subsystem if called with the 'subpubkey' argument, when the 'subpubkey' argument is not the last argument.
Conditions:
Create an iRule using X509::cert_fields where the subpubkey is not the last argument.
Example/signature to look for:
ltm rule rule_leak {
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [SSL::cert 0] ne "" } {
HTTP::respond 200 content "[X509::cert_fields [SSL::cert 0] 0 subpubkey hash]\n"
} else {
HTTP::respond 200 content "no client cert (WRONG!)"
}
}
}
Impact:
Memory will leak, eventually impacting the operation of tmm.
Workaround:
Ensure that 'subpubkey' is the last argument to X509::cert_fields
610417 : Insecure ciphers included when device adds another device to the trust. TLSv1 is the only protocol supported.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When adding a device to the trust, the SSL connection can use insecure ciphers. Also it will use the undesirable TLSv1 protocol instead of negotiating to the highest safest protocol available which is TLSv1.2
Conditions:
This exists when configuring devices in a device cluster.
Impact:
Unable to configure stronger ciphers for device trust.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Advertised client ciphers reduced to what the common criteria compliance standard approves.
Changed the initial OpenSSL call to use the correct one to negotiate to the highest available TLS protocol (1.2).
610354 : TMM crash on invalid memory access to loopback interface stats object
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
TMM can crash with segmentation fault when TMM drops packets on its internal loopback interface. TMM needs to update interface stats associated with the loopback interface when dropping packets on that interface. The interface stats object for loopback interface is not allocated yet. That results in segmentation fault.
Conditions:
TMM drops packets on its internal loopback interfaces.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
No Workaround.
610352 : sys-icheck reports error with /etc/sysconfig/modules/unic.modules
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
On Azure cloud, running sys-icheck may report an error with /etc/sysconfig/modules/unic.modules:
ERROR: S.5...... /etc/sysconfig/modules/unic.modules
Conditions:
This occurs on BIG-IP running on Azure cloud.
Impact:
sys-icheck utility indicates an error. The sys-icheck utility is used to find file system changes that have occurred since initial installation and provide information about their status.
Fix:
Fixed an issue with files in /etc/sysconfig/modules/unic.modules that was causing sys-icheck to report errors.
610350 : sys-icheck reports error with /config/bigpipe/defaults.scf
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
n Azure cloud, running sys-icheck may report an error with /config/bigpipe/defaults.scf and /usr/share/defaults/defaults.scf:
ERROR: S.5...... c /config/bigpipe/defaults.scf (no backup)
ERROR: S.5...... /usr/share/defaults/defaults.scf
Conditions:
This occurs on BIG-IP running on Azure cloud.
Impact:
sys-icheck utility indicates an error. The sys-icheck utility is used to find file system changes that have occurred since initial installation and provide information about their status.
Fix:
Fixed an issue with files in /config/bigpipe/defaults.scf that was causing sys-icheck to report errors.
610302 : Link throughput graphs might be incorrect.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The link throughput performance graphs available in the GTM, DNS or Link Controller modules might show the throughput for the wrong link in the graph.
Conditions:
Multiple links exist and one of the links has a name that is a prefix for the name of one or more other links.
For example, there are two links defined and named "mylink" and "mylink2".
Impact:
The graphs for all links that contain the prefix might show the throughput for the link whose name matches the prefix.
For example, the throughput graphs for both "mylink" and "mylink2" might both show the throughput data for "mylink"
As a result of this issue, the historical link throughput data is gathered and stored incorrectly. This data is used to generate the throughput graphs.
Workaround:
Do not create links where the name of one link forms a prefix for the name of other links.
Fix:
Link throughput graphs now collect and show the throughput for the proper link when one link name is a prefix of one or more other links. Note that historical information gathered before the fix will not be corrected.
610295 : TMM may crash due to internal backplane inconsistency after reprovisioning
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In some scenarios on VE platforms TMM may crash due to backplane inconsistency shortly after a provisioning change.
Conditions:
- BigIP VE with performance limited license.
- Additional licensing/provisioning of modules raises performance limits. New TMM processes are started.
- No reboot has occurred after provisioning.
Impact:
TMM may core with panic: "Unexpected backplane address" in /var/log/tmm log files. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Reboot after provisioning if new license add-on keys raises performance of the BigIP.
610273 : Not possible to do targeted failover with HA Group configured
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
With a traffic-group configured to use HA Group, it is not possible to disable the HA Group to perform targeted failover. Running tmsh run sys failover standby traffic-group traffic-group-1 produces an error:
"Unexpected Error: SOD command standby may not be issued for traffic group /Common/traffic-group-1 because it is configured to use HA group."
Conditions:
Traffic-group configured to use HA Group. Versions prior to 12.0.0 allowed you to disable the HA Group to do targeted failover.
Impact:
Unable to force the traffic-group to standby if HA Group is configured. You would need to change it to use a different mode, such as HA Order.
Workaround:
Temporarily change the traffic group to use a different Failover Method such as Load Aware or HA Order in order to failover. Note that this will disable HA Group functionality until the Failover Method is restored.
610224 : APM client may fetch expired certificate when a valid and an expired certificate co-exist
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
APM client does not consider the expiration when it matches certificates for Machine Cert Check. If a matching but expired certificate is found before a valid certificate, the expired certificate is used for Machine Cert Check on Windows.
Conditions:
A valid and an expired certificate co-exist in the certificate store.
Impact:
Machine Certificate check fails.
Workaround:
Remove the expired certificate from the store.
Fix:
When a valid and an expired certificate co-exist, the system now matches the valid certificate.
610180 : SAML Single Logout is misconfigured can cause a minor memory leak in SSO plugin.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When BIG-IP is used as SAML SP, and SLO is not properly configured on associated saml-idp-connector objects, IdP initiated SAML SLO may result in memory leak in SSO plugin.
Conditions:
- BIG-IP is used as SP.
- Associated saml-idp-connector object has 'single-logout-uri' property configured, but 'single-logout-response-uri' property is empty.
- User performs IdP initiated SAML SLO
Impact:
SSO plugin leaks memory
Workaround:
There are two possible workarounds:
- Fix misconfiguration: Configure SLO correctly by adding value to 'single-logout-response-uri' property of IdP connector object.
- Disable SLO by removing single-logout-uri' property of IdP connector object.
Fix:
When fixed, memory will no longer leak in SSO plugin even when SLO is misconfigured.
610129 : Config load failure when cluster management IP is not defined, but instead uses address-list.
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
In Cluster setup with multiple blades, if configurations do not have management IP addresses assigned to individual blades, but instead assign a cluster management IP address list to the cluster of blades. The configuration load will fail. System posts an error message similar to the following: err mcpd[24235]: 01071824:3: The address list is referenced by one of the rules of the admin IP either directly or in a nested manner, and the entry is of a different address family from that of the Admin IP.
Conditions:
1. Cluster setup with multiple blades.
2. No management IP assigned to individual blades.
3. Assign cluster management IP address list to the cluster of blades.
Impact:
After reboot, configuration load failure on secondary blades.
Workaround:
Define the cluster management IP address as the destination (in rule) without using address list.
Fix:
Config load failure no longer occurs when cluster management IP is not defined, but instead uses address-list.
609674 : machine certificate check creates issuer string with DC with reverse order
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Machine certificate check on MAC creates issuer string with incorrect domain component (DC) order if it has any domain component in the certificate.
For example, if DC in certificate says f5net.com, issuer DC string should look like "DC=f5net, DC=com" but instead, it's in reverse order (DC="com", DC="f5net").
Conditions:
Machine certificate check configured on BIG-IP systems, certificate contains DC components.
Impact:
Machine certificate check might fail.
Workaround:
For access policies with machine certificate check targeted towards MAC, the order of DC should be reversed (compared to access policy with machine certificate check targeted towards Microsoft Windows) in the regex configured in machine certificate check.
Fix:
DC order evaluated by MAC is correctly ordered now and matches with that of Microsoft Windows.
Behavior Change:
Previously, machine certificate check on MAC creates issuer string with incorrect domain component (DC) order if it has any domain component in the certificate.
For example, if DC in certificate says f5net.com, issuer DC string should look like "DC=f5net, DC=com" but instead, it's in reverse order (DC="com", DC="f5net"). Now, DC order evaluated by MAC is correctly ordered now and matches with that of Microsoft Windows.
609628 : CLIENTSSL_SERVERHELLO_SEND event in SSL forward proxy is not raised when client reuses session
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When a client performs an abbreviated handshake by reusing the session from a previously established full handshake, the SSL forward proxy does not raise the CLIENTSSL_SERVERHELLO_SEND event.
Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
-- SSL forward proxy configured
-- Session cache is enabled.
Impact:
iRule commands inside of the CLIENTSSL_SERVERHELLO_SEND are only executed for full handshakes but not for abbreviated handshakes; thus any logic that's applied per SSL connection should not run inside of CLIENTSSL_SERVERHELLO_SEND event since it is not reliably raised under all types of handshakes.
Workaround:
To make sure that the CLIENTSSL_SERVERHELLO_SEND event is reliably raised, disable session cache in the client SSL profile.
609625 : Portal Access: RSS XML files may contain non-rewritten URLs
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Some URLs in RSS XML files may not be rewritten if the file uses additional XML namespaces.
Conditions:
In the following example the content of <link> tag is not rewritten by Portal Access:
<rss xmlns:a10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">
<channel>
<a10:author> author </a10:author>
<link> http://domain.com </link>
Impact:
RSS pages may contain direct links if accessed via Portal Access.
Workaround:
Use an iRule to replace non-rewritten URLs with rewritten ones.
Fix:
Now Portal Access rewrites all necessary URLs in RSS XML pages with additional namespaces.
609575 : BIG-IP drops ACKs containing no max-forwards header
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
When a sip profile is in use and receives an acknowledgment packet missing the Max-Forwards header, BIG-IP will treat the packet as un-forwardable and does not forward the ACK. This can be experienced as a specific cilent being unable to make a call.
Conditions:
This would only be seen when BIG-IP is connected to specific clients that fail to populate the Max-Forwards header on an ACK.
Impact:
BIG-IP treats packets with the missing header as having a value of 0, which means "Do not forward".
609527 : DNS cache local zone not properly copying recursion desired (RD) flag in response
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
When a DNS query sets the RD flag, that setting is supposed to be copied to the response. When a DNS query is handled by a cache local zone, the RD flag is not set properly.
Conditions:
A DNS cache local zone must be configured and a DNS query with the RD flag set must be handled by this local zone.
Impact:
The flag is not set properly in the DNS response. This most likely will only be noticed by protocol validation tools as standard DNS clients generally do not check this bit.
Workaround:
Use an equivalent DNS Express configuration instead of the local zone.
Fix:
The fix is to properly check the RD flag on the query so that it can be copied to the response.
609499 : Compiled signature collections use more memory than prior versions
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Compiled signature collections use more memory than prior versions.
Conditions:
Different signature sets are used for different policies.
Impact:
BD memory usage for compiled signature collections is increased.
Fix:
Compiled signature collections memory usage was consolidated and reduced.
609496 : Improved diagnostics in BD config update (bd_agent) added
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Improved diagnostics in BD config update (bd_agent) are needed.
Conditions:
Further troubleshooting of BD config update transmission is needed.
Impact:
No diagnostics are available.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Improved diagnostics in BD config update (bd_agent) were added.
609328 : SIP Parser incorrectly parsers empty header
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
If a SIP message contains an empty header, the following header will be included as the value of the empty header.
Conditions:
A SIP header without any value will incorrectly cause the next header to be used as the value.
Impact:
If the following header is needed for processing the message, it will not be seen (since it is incorrectly considered the value of the previous header).
Fix:
Parser has been corrected to terminate an empty header when a line ending is seen.
609244-5 : tmsh show ltm persistence persist-records leaks memory
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
A small memory leak is detected when running the following command: tmsh show ltm persistence persist-records.
Conditions:
This occurs when running tmsh show ltm persistence persist-records.
Impact:
The memory leak is small, however if the command is run constantly the memory growth can become large.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
tmsh show ltm persistence persist-records no longer leaks memory.
609199 : Debug TMM produces core when an MPTCP connection times out while a subflow is trying to join
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If an MPTCP connection times out while a subflow is still performing the three-way handshake, the TMM produces a core. This only affects the debug TMM, not the default one.
Conditions:
An MPTCP connection times out while a subflow is still performing the three-way handshake with MP_JOIN. This only affects the debug TMM.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Disable MPTCP.
Fix:
Remove unestablished joining subflows when freeing the MPTCP connection structure.
609119 : Occasionally the logging system prints out a blank message: err mcpd[19114]: 01070711:3:
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Occasionally the logging system prints out a blank message, similar to the following example:
-- err mcpd[19114]: 01070711:3:
For this log statement, there is text associated with the error in the bigip_mcpd_error_defs.in file, so something should be logged.
Conditions:
The problem is the result of an exception handler issue in mcpd's File Object validator. The damaged logs can come from anywhere in mcpd, but appear only after a File Object configuration change fails validation. If the problem occurs, it will happen only once per validation error. The damage caused by the exception handler is automatically corrected when the system rewrites the log.
Impact:
Except for the missing log text, the state and behavior of the BIG-IP system is unaffected.
Workaround:
None. The problem corrects automatically when the system rewrites the log.
Fix:
The logging system prints out a blank message in response to failed file object configuration change validations.
609107 : mcpd does not properly validate missing 'sys folder' config in bigip_base.conf
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
If a 'sys folder' is manually removed from bigip_base.conf, and the config is then reloaded, mcpd does not produce any warning or error messages, and allows the config to load.
Conditions:
A folder is removed from a previously valid configuration file.
Impact:
Inconsistent configuration between devices in the same device-group, shows in-sync when they are not, prevents config loading after mcpd has been reset.
Workaround:
Do not remove folders from the configuration file.
Fix:
mcpd now properly validates missing 'sys folder' config in bigip_base.conf, so the config performs as expected.
609098-2 : Improve details of ajax failure
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
When AJAX request fails, insufficient information is provided to debug the failure.
Conditions:
AJAX failure
Impact:
Difficult to diagnose the failure.
Workaround:
Not relevant
Fix:
Add information to alert about AJAX failure.
609095 : mcpd memory grows when updating firewall rules
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
While updating firewall rules such as adding/deleting a blacklist, mcpd memory grows by a small amount with each update.
Conditions:
This can occur when making changes to firewall policies.
Impact:
mcpd memory grows unbounded; over a significant amount of time with many changes and no restarts, mcpd can run out of memory and oom killer can trigger a failover.
609084 : Max number of chunks not configurable above 1000 chunks
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
If you want to support requests larger than 1000 chunks, the request is blocked and the system posts the following message in the ASM event log:
Unparsable request content Chunks number exceeds request chunks limit: 1000.
Conditions:
This occurs when the request exceeds 1000 chunks.
Impact:
Requests that are valid from the server side are being rejected.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
This release adds an internal parameter "request_max_chunks_number" to enable configuring a greater than 1000 max number of chunks. The default value is 1000
Behavior Change:
This release adds an internal parameter "request_max_chunks_number" to enable configuring a greater than 1000 max number of chunks. The default value is 1000
609027 : TMM crashes when SSL forward proxy is enabled.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crashes when SSL forward proxy is enabled.
Conditions:
This can occur when SSL forward proxy is enabled and there is a server handshake done when client SSL handshake is not ongoing.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
SSL forward proxy now ignores server handshake done when client SSL handshake is not ongoing, so an intermittent TMM crash no longer occurs.
609005-1 : 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).
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
Two client side DHCP packets with giaddr field set, one with source port 67 and another client side packet with source port 68 (not conforming to RFC since giaddr set DHCP packet (from relay agent) should use 67 as source port per RFC),
tmm will crash during err message logging.
Conditions:
1) Two client side DHCP packets arrive one after another.
2) Both DHCP packets have giaddr fields set
3) One packet uses 67 as source port, the other uses 68
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
The conditions that cause the crash should not happen in a normal network setup. A DHCP relay agent should only use 67 as source port.
608941 : AAA RADIUS system authentication fails on IPv6 network
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
APM supports RADIUS authentication to IPv6 servers for APM clients if the IPv6 servers are in a pool, but using RADIUS for system authentication directly to a RADIUS server fails on invalid IP address. The signature in the log file is as follows:
err apmd[13481]: 01490108:3: /Common/profilename: RADIUS module: authentication with 'aa' failed: Invalid Server IP(0)/Port(0) (1)
Conditions:
RADIUS authentication configured for system authentication direct to a RADIUS server, and the RADIUS server is an IPv6 server.
Impact:
RADIUS is unable to connect directly to the IPv6 RADIUS server, clients unable to log into the system.
608927 : SIP Parser logging improvements
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
The SIP parser logging and tracing can be vague and not helpful to field troubleshooting when SIP messages are unable to be parsed.
Conditions:
This occurs when SIP logs an error due to a malformed or unsupported SIP message to the SIP parser.
Impact:
Isolating the specifc issue with a defective SIP message is difficult
Workaround:
Do not pass malformed or unsupported SIP messages into the BIGIP.
Fix:
Logging of SIP parser message rejection has been improved.
608826 : Greylist (bad actors list) is not cleaned when attack ends
Component: Anomaly Detection Services
Symptoms:
When attack ends the greylist (detected bad actors) remains till the timeout expiration.
Conditions:
Detected bad actors and attack end.
Impact:
If new attack will start sooner than greylist expiration time, greylist member will be mitigated even if they are not related to the current attack.
Workaround:
It it's necessary it's possible to clear greylist manually using ipidr utility.
Fix:
Clear the greylist upon attack end.
608742 : DHCP: DHCP renew ack messages from server are getting dropped by BIGIP in Forward mode.
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
When BIGIP is configured in Forwarding mode, renewal ack message from server in response to unicast renewal message from DHCP clients is getting dropped.
Conditions:
BIG IP in forwarding mode. DHCP clients sending unicast renewal message to DHCP server
Impact:
Unicast DHCP renewal requests are not acked. DHCP clients will send broadcast renewal messages and will be acked by servers.
Workaround:
After unable to receive acks from DHCP servers for unicast DHCP renewal messages, DHCP client will send broadcast DHCP renewal messages and will be acked by DHCP server and acks forwarded by BIGIP and received by DHCP clients.
608601 : Multiple LibTIFF vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Solution Article: K35155453
608591 : Subscriber ID type should be set to NAI over Diameter for DHCP discovered subscribers
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
CCR-I requests from PEM to PCRF have subscriber ID type set to 6 (UNKNOWN) for DHCP subscribers instead of 3 (NAI).
Conditions:
Occurs for DHCP discovered subscribers on a BIG-IP system that uses a PCRF for policy determination.
Impact:
Might impact the way policies are provided from the PCRF.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Subscrbier ID type is marked as NAI for DHCP discovered subscribers.
608566 : The reference count of NW dos log profile in tmm log is incorrect
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
In certain circumstances when virtual servers are configured with security log profiles, the log message in tmm log is showing incorrect reference cnt to the log profiles.
Conditions:
Creation, modification and deletion of many virtual servers with security log profiles attached.
Impact:
This may lead to issues such as TMM crash if the reference count is not calculated correctly
Fix:
The reference count now is showing correct number in the log message after the fix
608555 : Configuring asymmetric routing with a VE rate limited license will result in tmm crash
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Configuring asymmetric routing with a VE rate limited license results in tmm crash.
Conditions:
Asymmetric routing is configured (i.e., client and/or server ingress and egress travel on different VLANs), and a VE rate limited license is used.
Impact:
tmm might continually crash when passing traffic. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Do not use asymmetric routing with a rate limited license.
Fix:
The VE rate shaper now works correctly when asymmetric routing is configured, tmm does not crash.
608551 : Half-closed congested SSL connections with unclean shutdown might stall.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Half-closed congested SSL connections with unclean shutdown might stall.
Conditions:
If SSL egress is congested and the client FINs with no Close Notify, connection might stall as SSL does not request more egress data from HTTP.
Impact:
Possible stalled flow.
Workaround:
Use SSL client that sends clean shutdown.
Fix:
Resolved half-closed congested SSL connections with unclean shutdown, so connections no longer stall.
608509 : Policy learning is slow under high load
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
On systems with high load, policy learning is slow and learning suggestions are slow to arrive.
Conditions:
Policy builder generates many learning suggestions on a system that processes intense traffic.
Impact:
Learning suggestions appear with considerable delay, policy learning speed goes down.
Workaround:
No workaround
Fix:
Fixed an issue with slow policy learning on heavily loaded systems.
608453 : Shrink/Expand imgs of Webtop Section is customizable
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Changing images for Shrink/Expand of Webtop Section in Webtop Customization does not actually change images on client; users see default images instead
Conditions:
This is encountered when using Webtop Customization.
Impact:
The default image is displayed instead of the customized image.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Customization of Shrink/Expand images is working properly now in Webtop Section in Webtop Customization.
608427 : LocalDB auth agent is not available for APM based system auth
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
LocalDB auth agent is not available for APM based system auth.
Conditions:
Try to add LocalDB auth agent to access profile for APM profile type of system auth. VPE does not show LocalDB auth agent for System auth access profiles.
Impact:
You are unable to assign a LocalDB auth agent for APM based system auth.
Workaround:
No workaround
Fix:
LocalDB auth agent is now available for APM based system auth. LocalDB auth agent can be added in VPE for access profiles with type system auth.
608408 : TMM may restart if SSO plugin configuration initialization fails due to internal error in tmconf library
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
TMM may restart when new SAML SSO configuration is created on BIG-IP systems as SAML IdP. This could also happen when BIG-IP is restarted, or a saved configuration containing SAML SSO objects is loaded on running BIG-IP.
Conditions:
All of the following
- The BIG-IP system is used as SAML IdP
- New SAML SSO configuration is added on BIG-IP
- Rarely occurring internal tmconf error happens when processing newly added configuration.
Impact:
TMM may restart.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
TMM no longer restarts when internal error happens upon adding new SAML SSO configurations. Instead, the system logs the following error in /var/log/apm to indicate problematic configuration object: Internal error processing sso config <name>.
608373 : Some iApp LX packages will not be saved during upgrade or UCS save/restore
Component: Device Management
Symptoms:
iApp LX packages that include dependencies on system utilities (like /bin/sh, /bin/bash, python etc.) cannot be imported to iApp LX RPM database.
Conditions:
oApp LX packages that depends on system utilities.
Impact:
iApp LX packages with dependencies will not be restored during upgrade or UCS restore process.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
iApp LX UCS save process is updated turn off automatic dependency generation by rpmbuild so iApp LX package can be imported during UCS restore or upgrade.
608320 : 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
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
For persistence profiles, iControl REST does not provide visibility for property override when "none" is specified, including references, passwords, and array of strings.
Conditions:
-- Use iControl REST API with persistence profiles.
-- string, enum, or vector of enum/string property explicitly set to "none" for a component within any REST API endpoint specialized in /etc/icrd.conf.
Impact:
The iControl REST API response skips these elements. iControl REST does not provide visibility for persistence profile property overrides.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
iControl REST API now returns persistence profile elements (i.e., string, enum , or vector of enum/string property that is explicitly set to "none" for a component within any REST API endpoint specialized in /etc/icrd.conf) with a value "none". The exclusion to this policy is the secured attributes. Secured attributes are always excluded from the iControl REST API response.
608024 : Unnecessary DTLS retransmissions occur during handshake.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Unnecessary DTLS retransmissions occur during handshake.
Conditions:
During DTLS handshake, unnecessary retransmissions of handshake message may occur on VE platform.
Impact:
Possible DTLS handshake failure on VE platform.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
This release fixes a possible failed DTLS handshake on VE platforms.
608009 : Crash: Tmm crashing when active system connections are deleted from cli
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
When the BIG-IP is in DHCP forwarding mode, if the giaddr field in the unicast DHCP renewal packet is set to DHCP relay agent IP address by relay agent, tmm may crash when active system connections are deleted from cli or via aging.
Conditions:
1) BIG-IP in forwarding mode
2) giaddr field in unicast DHCP renewal packet is set to IP address of relay agent (Typically, it is set to 0 by the DHCP client)
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
This is not a typical network setup. Usually DHCP relay agent will not modify DHCP renewal packet to insert its own address as giaddr.
607961 : Secondary blades restart when modifying a virtual server's route domain in a different partition.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Secondary blades restart when modifying a virtual server's route domain in a different partition. This log signature is in /var/log/ltm before the secondaries restart: err mcpd[1255]: 0107004d:3: Virtual address (/stef/1.1.1.1%0) encodes IP address (1.1.1.1) which differs from supplied IP address field (1.1.1.1%1).
Conditions:
- Multiple blades of vCMP guests in a sync-failover group.
- Route domains created on each device.
- Route domain assigned to a new partition after they were created.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while secondary blades restart.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Secondary blades no longer restart when modifying a virtual server's route domain in a different partition.
607886 : Cannot delete partition when APM Sandbox configuration is present
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
A partition cannot be removed when the APM Sandbox configuration is present and APM is not provisioned.
Conditions:
-- APM Sandbox configuration exists in partition other than Common.
-- APM is not provisioned.
Impact:
Partition cannot be deleted.
Workaround:
To work around this issue, you can first provision APM and then delete the partition. This will require a restart of services.
Another work around is to remove the bigip.conf file from under /config/partitions/<partition folder> and reload the full configuration. For example:
1) rm /config/partitions/<partition>/bigip.conf
2) tmsh load sys config
3) tmsh delete sys folder /<partition>
Fix:
Now, you can delete partition when APM Sandbox configuration is present.
607803 : DTLS client (serverssl profile) fails to complete resumed handshake.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
DTLS client (serverssl profile) fails to complete resumed handshake.
Conditions:
This occurs when the BIG-IP system acts as a DTLS client.
Impact:
Possible failed resumed handshake.
Workaround:
Disable session reuse.
Fix:
This release fixes a possible failed resumed DTLS handshake.
607724 : TMM may crash when in Fallback state.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
There is a chance, when HTTP in Fallback mode, HTTP filter sends Abort event to TCP filter (causing tear down) prematurely while the Aborting triggered by upper filter/proxy is in flight.
TMM may crash when this happens.
Conditions:
It is not known exactly what conditions need to exist to trigger this, but it has been known to trigger when issuing HTTP::respond in the LB_FAILED event in an iRule, and it has been seen only rarely.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
no work around
Fix:
Fixed a tmm crash
607716 : Licensing causes SELinux denied messages for mcpd★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
After you apply a license, you see the following in /var/log/audit/auditd.log: type=AVC msg=audit(1469642592.548:489): avc: denied { relabelto } for pid=6908 comm="mcpd" name="bigip.license.chs600493s" dev=dm-10 ino=25 scontext=system_u:system_r:mcpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 tclass=file.
Conditions:
This may be seen when licensing or during reactivation of a license.
Impact:
The errors are benign and can be safely ignored.
Workaround:
None needed. This is a cosmetic error.
Fix:
Licensing no longer causes SELinux denied messages for mcpd.
607713 : SIP Parser fails header with multiple sequential separators inside quoted string.
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
SIP Parser fails header with multiple sequential separators inside quoted string.
Conditions:
If a SIP header contains multiple attribute separators ',' or ';' in an attribute.
Impact:
The SIP parser flags the message as an error. If this occurs in a quote within the attribute, it should be allowed, but it will still fail, Valid SIP messages are failing to be parsed.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The SIP parser has been improved to ignore multiple sequential separators if within quotes.
607658 : GUI becomes unresponsive when managing GSLB Pool
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
GUI Locks Up and becomes unresponsive. Most major web browsers will complain about slow javascript and prompt you to kill the script.
Conditions:
Managing an A type GSLB pool when hundereds of virtual servers exist. These virtual servers do not have to be associated with the pool you are attempting to manage.
Impact:
Page takes a significantly long time to load.
Workaround:
Manage pools through tmsh, or wait for it to load.
607524 : Memory leak when multiple DHCP servers are configured, and the last DHCP server configured is down.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When the last member of a list of multiple DHCP servers is down, the original DHCP packet from client is not freed and memory is leaked.
Conditions:
Multiple DHCP servers are configured, and the last DHCP server configured is down.
Impact:
Packet memory is leaked.
Workaround:
Remove the last DHCP server that is down, or move it to the middle or front of the server member list.
Fix:
Free the original packet memory when last DHCP server is down.
607410 : In the iRule output of X509 Certificate's subject & issuer, the display is wrong.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When using iRule to output X509 Certificate's subject & issuer, the display is wrong.
Conditions:
Using iRule command "X509::subject" & "X509::issuer" to get the Cert's subject &issuer, and then using log to display them.
Impact:
The iRule output of X509 Certificate's subject & issuer is wrong.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
In the iRule output of X509 Cert's subject & issuer, we should use the the more readable flag XN_FLAG_ONELINE in the X509_NAME_print_ex() as openssl used.
607360 : Safenet 6.2 library missing after upgrade★
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
After upgrading BIG-IP, a symbolic link is missing to the core Safenet library.
Conditions:
This occurs when a BIG-IP installation with Safenet 6.2 already installed is upgraded.
Impact:
Safenet 6.2 is not functional.
Workaround:
Reinstall Safenet 6.2. Or,
run this command at all blades of BIG-IP after the installation.
ln -sf /shared/safenet/toolkit/libgem.so /usr/lib64/openssl/engines/libgem.so
Fix:
Add symbolic link to libgem at time of pkcs11d daemon start/restart.
607314 : Oracle Java vulnerability CVE-2016-3500, CVE-2016-3508
Vulnerability Solution Article: K25075696
607304-6 : TMM is killed by SOD (missing heartbeat) during geoip_reload performing munmap.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM is killed by SOD (missing heartbeat) during geoip_reload performing munmap.
Conditions:
This can occur under normal operation, while running the geo_update command.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
607152 : Large Websocket frames corrupted
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If large Websocket frames are being sent by the end-point and this transfer is interleaved with frames being sent by the other endpoint, corrupted frames could be sent by BIG-IP.
Conditions:
Websocket profile is attached to the virtual. Large Websocket frames are sent by the end-point. This transfer is interleaved with frames being sent in the other direction.
Impact:
Connection reset because of corrupted frames being received by the end-point.
607001 : ASM policy diff issue for HTTP method HEAD
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Policy diff erroneously indicates a difference with the HTTP HEAD method.
Conditions:
This always occurs for the HEAD method.
Impact:
Wrong results in policy diff.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Policy diff no longer erroneously indicates a difference with the HTTP HEAD method.
606940 : Clustered Multiprocessing (CMP) peer connection may not be removed
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
- High memory usage due to connflow allocations
- conn_remove_cf_not_found stat is non-zero
Conditions:
CMP with multiple TMMs. CMP peer connection is removed before it has been established.
Impact:
Low memory may lead to allocation failures that may lead to tmm core
Fix:
Fix validation performed on parsed CMP flow keys that allows unknown CMP connections to be removed.
606875 : DoS Application - Block requests from suspicious browsers feature causes javascript latency for webapp first page
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
When an end-user accesses a web-site's first page there is a noticeable latency until it gets the page content.
Conditions:
This occurs when ASM is provisioned with proactive bot defense enabled, when accessing the page for a first time.
Impact:
Bad user experience when accessing the website's first page.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
The javascript has improved as much as possible to reduce the time to get the website's first page.
606831 : Multidomain SSO slave virtual cannot be reached
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
One or multiple slave virtual servers cannot be reached in a Multidomain SSO use case. This happens due to a bug during the configuration of the SSO Auth Domains in the Access Profile. When a user attempts to access the virtual, it will not be reachable.
The following message will appear on Warning level in the TMM logs:
Multidomain SSO enabled for profile: <access-profile>. No matching domain found for request host: <host>.
Conditions:
This happens intermittently only after adding and deleting many auth domains.
Impact:
The virtual server is not reachable.
Workaround:
Restart TMM
Fix:
The auth domain is added correctly when configured and can be found at runtime for proper execution of Multidomain SSO.
606575 : Request-oriented OneConnect load balancing ends when the server returns an error status code.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Request-oriented OneConnect load balancing ends when the server returns an error status code.
Conditions:
OneConnect is enabled and the server responds with a HTTP error status code.
Impact:
The client remains connected to the server, and no further load-balancing decisions are made.
Workaround:
It may be possible to detect the HTTP status code in the response, and manually detach the client-side.
To do so, use an iRule similar to the following:
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
if { [HTTP::status] == 200 } { return }
if { [HTTP::status] == 401 } {
set auth_header [string tolower [HTTP::header values "WWW-Authenticate"]]
if { $auth_header contains "negotiate" || $auth_header contains "ntlm" } {
# Connection-oriented auth. System should already be doing the right thing
unset auth_header
return
}
unset auth_header
}
catch { ONECONNECT::detach enable }
}.
Note: These workarounds should not be used when the backend server is using connection-oriented HTTP authentication (e.g., NTLM or Negotiate authentication).
Fix:
With OneConnect, the client-side remains detachable when the server-side returns an HTTP error status code.
606573 : FTP traffic does not work through SNAT when configured without Virtual Server★
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
After upgrading to 12.1.0 or 12.1.1, FTP traffic no longer works correctly with SNAT, when SNAT is configured without a virtual server.
Conditions:
The BIG-IP system configured to allow FTP traffic through, and SNAT is configured without a virtual server.
Impact:
The BIG-IP system does not SNAT port 21 traffic. In rare circumstances this can cause tmm to restart.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
FTP traffic now works through SNAT when SNAT is configured without a virtual server.
606565 : TMM may crash when /sys db tm.simultaneousopen is set to reset or drop_connection
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When the /sys db tm.simultaneousopen variable is set to 'reset' or 'drop_connection', TMM may crash during a TCP simultaneous 4 way handshake.
Conditions:
1. The /sys db tm.simultaneousopen variable is set to 'reset' or 'drop_connection'.
2. A TCP 4 way handshake (simultaneous open) occurs as described in RFC 793.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
The crash can be avoided, while still mitigating TCP 4 way handshakes, by setting the /sys db tm.simultaneousopen variable to 'drop_pkt'.
606518 : iControl REST with 3rd party auth does not function as expected with '@' / email addresses as username.
Component: Device Management
Symptoms:
Cannot use username containing an 'at' ( @ ) character, or specify the email address when requesting authentication token using iControl REST when 3rd party authentication provider being used.
Conditions:
Set-up the BIG-IP system to use 3rd party RADIUS or LDAP authentication and configure a username containing an 'at' ( @ ) character, or specify the email address.
Impact:
Cannot authenticate and get authentication token using iControl REST.
Workaround:
Do not use username with special characters, such as 'at' ( @ ), period ( . ), and so on).
Fix:
Updated logic to allow any special characters in username and password when 3rd party authentication system is used on the BIG-IP system.
606509 : Incorrect process priority in vCMP guest results in low priority of the guest control-plane, which might cause high availability failover★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Incorrect process priority in vCMP guest results in low priority of the guest control-plane, which might cause high availability failover.
Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
* vCMP provisioned.
* vCMP hypervisor (host) running 12.1.0
* vCMP guest with 2 or more cores deployed and running 11.5.0 or greater.
* vCMP guest has HT-Split enabled (tmsh list sys db scheduler.splitplanes.ltm).
Impact:
vCMP guests may experience control-plane issues (such as failures to send or receive network failover traffic in an HA-pair, causing a failover).
Fix:
This release restores the process nice value of VCMP guest control-plane, so the vCMP guest no longer experiences potential frequent failovers.
606426 : coapi error on the shell, when user clicks on session in the manage sessions page
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Shows the error message similar to the following in console:
err coapi: [error] [client 165.160.15.20] PHP Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /var/sam/www/admin/reports/index.php on line 8, referer:
Conditions:
When you click on the GUI's session page, the error shows up in the console.
Impact:
There is no functional impact to APM or the BIG-IP system.
Workaround:
None. This is cosmetic.
Fix:
The system now uses the correct timezone, so no error occurs when clicking on the GUI's session page.
606416 : apm client-packaging object missing in existing partitions after provisioning APM
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
apm client packaging is missing for the partitions that are created before provisioning APM. This will prevent users customizing client package
.
Conditions:
This happens to all the partitions that are created before APM is provisioned. Prevents users to customize the client package.
Impact:
User cannot customize the client packages
Workaround:
Create partition after APM is provisioned.
Fix:
Create apm client packaging object for all the partitions at the provisioning time.
606330 : The BIG-IP system does not accept BGP connection requests when using peer-groups and no default address family.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The BIG-IP system does not accept incoming or initiate outgoing BGP connections when using peer-groups and no default address family.
Conditions:
BGP configured with 'no bgp default ipv4-unicast' and neighbors configured using a peer group that's explicitly activated for IPv4.
Impact:
The BGP connection to any neighbor in the peer group will not come up until 'clear ip bgp' is run on the neighbor or tmrouted is restarted.
Workaround:
Clear the BGP neighbor after changing the configuration.
Fix:
BGP connections for neighbors in a peer group come up correctly when 'no bgp default ipv4-unicast' is configured.
606257 : TCP FIN sent with Connection: Keep-Alive header for webtop page resources
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When using customized webtops (for example, using custom images for the webtop links), sometimes a TCP FIN flag will be sent with a packet with an HTTP "Connection: Keep-Alive" header. Not all clients recover from this.
Conditions:
Use a customized webtop link.
Impact:
The webtop links page does not render correctly.
Fix:
Weptop page resources no longer send FIN flags with Keep-Alive headers.
606110 : BIG-IP VE dataplane interfaces change to using UNIC modules instead of sockets.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
On AWS and Azure, dataplane interfaces use socket-based networking instead of UNIC modules. After upgrading a version later than 12.1.0, the default module for dataplane interfaces is UNIC modules instead of socket-based networking.
Conditions:
Upgrading BIG-IP VE on AWS or Azure running versions 12.0.0 or 12.1.0.
Impact:
The raw socket-based tmm driver is replaced by a UNIC driver. The socket-based driver eliminates kernel driver dependencies and provides better portability during kernel/driver upgrades.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
BIG-IP VE socket-based networking driver retained after upgrade on AWS or Azure.
606101 : Support launching multiple Horizon View client instances from APM webtop
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If there are two different virtuals with APM webtops and VMware View resources, launching the Horizon View client from one of them automatically closes the existing instance of Horizon View client.
Conditions:
Two different APM virtual servers with VMware View resources assigned to webtop.
Impact:
Cannot have multiple remote desktop sessions opened from different APM virtuals simultaneously.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
APM webtop now makes use of the "useExisting" flag supported by newer versions of Horizon View client, which allows multiple simultaneous instances to run.
606072 : User deletion doesn't delete tokens issued for that user at max 15 seconds
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
REST Framework polls for any changes in user every 15 seconds. When user is removed from MCP directly using tmsh or BIG-IP GUI, for REST that user will be still valid for at most 15 seconds. So any authentication tokens issued will not be invalidated and all REST API requests will work as that user remains valid until user deletion is synced.
Conditions:
This occurs when users are deleted and the user is still using iControl REST.
Impact:
After user deletion from MCP, tokens issued for that user will not immediately deleted from REST
Workaround:
After user deletion, customer need to wait at most 15 seconds for change to take effect in REST API
Fix:
When user is removed from REST, all tokens issued for that user is invalidated immediately. If a user is removed from MCP either using TMUI or tmsh, that change will be synced to REST after 15 seconds in the worse case.
Behavior Change:
Auth token is removed upon user deletion.
606066 : LSN_DELETE messages may be lost after HA failover
Component: Carrier-Grade NAT
Symptoms:
After a failover, an LSN_DELETE message may be lost if the connection continued after the failover.
Conditions:
CGNAT configured as an HA pair, with session logging enabled.
Impact:
An LSN_DELETE message may be missing from the logs.
Fix:
After the fix, the LSN_DELETE message will not be lost.
605983 : tmrouted may crash when being restarted in debug mode
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
tmrouted may restart after it being manually restarted with debug level equal or higher than 2.
Conditions:
tmrouted is manually restarted with debug level equal or higher than 2.
Multi route-domain setup with independent routing processes enabled on several route-domains.
Impact:
tmrouted may restart additional times which can add delay to getting back to service after manually restarting tmrouted.
Any restart of tmrouted already causes loss of dynamic routing sessions.
Workaround:
Do not use equal or higher than 2 debug level for tmrouted. This should be carried out only under recommendation from F5 Support.
Fix:
tmrouted no longer crashes when being restarted in debug mode
605894 : Remote authentication for BIG-IP users can fail
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
While trying to log into the command line of BIG-IP as a remotely authenticated user, login will intermittently fail. You may see the following in /var/log/secure: "err httpd[19596]: pam_ldap: ldap_simple_bind Can't contact LDAP server" but the LDAP server is up and is accessible by the BIG-IP
Conditions:
Remote authentication configured, users configured to use remote authentication, ssl-check-peer is enabled and one or more of these properties are different than "none": ssl-ca-cert-file, ssl-client-cert, ssl-client-key.
Impact:
The remote authentication service will fail to initiate a connection to the LDAP server with the ssl-check-peer setting enabled, even if the ssl-ca-cert-file is valid. It will terminate the connection and remote authentication will fail.
Workaround:
Disabling ssl-check-peer and setting ssl-ca-cert-file, ssl-client-cert and ssl-client-key to "none" can work around this issue.
605865 : Debug TMM produces core on certain ICMP PMTUD packets
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The debug TMM will produce a core on the assert "cwnd or ssthresh too low" when receiving an ICMP PMTUD packet with an MTU larger than the current MTU. This does not affect the default TMM.
Conditions:
While using the debug TMM, an ICMP PMTUD packet is received with an MTU larger than the current MTU.
Impact:
Debug TMM crashes on assert "cwnd or ssthresh too low." Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Block incoming ICMP PMTUD packets. Note that this will cause Path MTU Discovery to fail, and IP packets sent by the BIG-IP system with the Don't Fragment (DF) bit set may be dropped silently if the MTUs of the devices on the path are configured incorrectly.
Fix:
The system now always updates TCP MSS after an ICMP PMTUD packet, so there is no debug TMM core.
605690 : tmsh "ip-whitelist" field DOS application is deprecated
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
tmsh "ip-whitelist" field DOS application is deprecated, but is still included for backward-compatibility.
Since 13.x, it is not recommended to use the following tmsh command to add/modify white IP addresses for DOS application profiles. The "ip-whitelist" field is deprecated in 13.x. To configure the whitelist, use a generic global IP addresses list object.
*NOT recommended usage*
modify security dos profile dos application modify { all { ip-whitelist add { 8.8.8.8 } } }.
*Recommended usage*
create security shared-objects address-list dos_auto_http_white_ips_list addresses add { 8.8.8.8 }
modify security dos profile dos http-whitelist dos_auto_http_white_ips_list
Conditions:
ASM or Purpose built DoS provisioned and a white IP address needs to be configured on the DOS application profile.
Impact:
When using the deprecated commands to configure a white IP address list for the DOS application profile. Although there is a warning displayed, the white IP address is added to the profile automatically via a generic global IPs list object, and the list is auto generated using the following name: dos_auto_http_white_ips_list.
Workaround:
Use the following commands:
create security shared-objects address-list dos_auto_http_white_ips_list addresses add { 8.8.8.8 }.
modify security dos profile dos http-whitelist dos_auto_http_white_ips_list.
Fix:
This version provides an option to configure a white IP address on the DOS application profile using a deprecated "ip-whitelist" field, the command works and creates a generic IP addresses list automatically, and attaches the list to the DOS profile.
Behavior Change:
When using the deprecated commands to configure a white IP address list for the DOS application profile. Although there is a warning displayed, the white IP address is added to the profile automatically via a generic global IPs list object, and the list is auto generated using the following name: dos_auto_http_white_ips_list.
605682 : With forward proxy enabled, sometimes the client connection will not complete.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If forward proxy is enabled, and a required forged certificate is not in the cache, the connection might not complete.
Conditions:
Forward proxy is enabled, and a required forged certificate is not in the cache.
Impact:
Degraded service due to connections not completing.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The stalling caused by a missing forged certificate no longer happens.
605616 : Creating 256 Fundamental Security policies will result in an out of memory error
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
ASM out of memory error will occur when 256 fundamental security policies are created.
Conditions:
Create 256 fundamental security policies.
Impact:
Out of memory error.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Improved memory allocations for shared XML profiles to enable more than 256 fundamental security policies.
605525 : Deterministic NAT combined with NAT64 may cause a TMM core
Component: Carrier-Grade NAT
Symptoms:
TMM crashes when a virtual is configured with nat64 enabled, and a deterministic NAT lsn-pool, and there is traffic.
Conditions:
lsn-pool in deterministic mode is attached to a virtual server with nat64 enabled.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Deterministic NAT is not supported with nat64, and should not be configured.
605438 : Manager role should be allowed to create 'Custom Categories'
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When logged into the platform as a User with the role of "Manager" the user will be unable to create custom categories.
Conditions:
This only occurs within the GUI.
Impact:
GUI is unusable for the creation of new custom categories when user is of role type "Manager"
Workaround:
Use TMSH commands instead of GUI
Fix:
Now the users operating the GUI as role type "Manager" can create new custom categories.
605427 : TMM may crash when adding and removing virtual servers with security log profiles
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
In certain circumstances when virtual servers are configured with security log profiles TMM may crash.
Conditions:
Creation, modification and deletion of many virtual servers with security log profiles attached.
Impact:
TMM may crash with the following log in /var/log/tmm:
<13> Apr 18 13:23:04 <hostname> notice panic: ../base/fw_log_profile.c:3368: Assertion "fw_log_profile_protocol_sip_dos ref non-zero" failed.
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
TMM no longer crashes with multiple creation, modification and deletion of many virtual servers with security log profiles attached.
605414 : Mysqld and bcm56xxd seem to run at 100% on vCMP host.
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
Mysqld and bcm56xxd seem to run at 100% on vCMP host.
Conditions:
When the hypervisor collects statistical data from itself and all hosted guests, too many system resources are used, leading to constant updates of data to mysql.
Impact:
This results in the hypervisor not functioning properly.
Workaround:
Execute the following command:
bigstart stop monpd.
Impact of this workaround: Although no statistical data will be collected, the hypervisor will perform all other functions.
Fix:
The sampling rate of statistical data was reduced, and samples only the required data for vCMP. As a result, collecting statistical data does not cause a serious impact to system performance, so the vCMP guest no longer experiences potential frequent failovers.
605383 : Requsts are dropped when custom captcha response page is longer than 1024 bytes
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
When configuring custom Captcha response page bigger than 1024 bytes, requests are getting dropped instead of getting Captcha response.
There is also no indication of error.
Conditions:
1. During Captcha mitigation in DOSL7
2. Custom Captcha response page
3. Requests are getting dropped instead of getting Captcha response.
Impact:
Site availability decrease.
Workaround:
Change Captcha response to be smaller than 1024 bytes
Fix:
No limitation for Captcha page.
605270 : On some platforms the SYN-Cookie status report is not accurate
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
On a vCMP guest, after a ePVA-enabled virtual server enters SYN Cookie mode, the FPGA will never leave SYN Cookie mode even though BIG-IP has returned to normal mode.
Conditions:
This occurs intermittently on virtual servers with ePVA enabled on a vCMP instance where SYN Protection is triggered.
Impact:
Since this occurs very intermittently, the entire impact is not known. Initially this is an incorrect SYN Cookie status reporting issue for LTM Virtual statistics, but it is possible that if SYN Cookie mode is triggered again, hardware SYN might not be enabled properly.
Workaround:
Upgrade with new fixes for this.
Fix:
BIG-IP FPGAs now correctly report hardware SYN Cookie mode.
605260 : [GUI] Changes can not be made to GTM listener in partition with default route domain <> 0
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
When a listener is created in a partition that has a default route domain set, you cannot make changes to the listener in the GUI via DNS -> Delivery -> Listeners. It gives 'Instance not found' error when you try to save the change. Also, a listener in the /Common partition cannot even be viewed when a partition that has a default route domain other than 0 is selected.
Conditions:
This occurs when using partitions that have default-route-domain set to something other than 0.
Impact:
You will be unable to make changes to the listener.
Workaround:
Use TMSH or through LTM GUI: Local Traffic :: Virtual Servers.
605125 : Sometimes, passwords fields are readonly
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
Sometimes, passwords fields are readonly so the user won't be able to type any password.
Conditions:
WebSafe protection enabled on a site
Impact:
the user won't be able to type any password on the site.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
N/A
605039 : lwresd and bind vulnerability CVE-2016-2775
Vulnerability Solution Article: K92991044
605010 : Thrift::TException error
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
Trying to send a scheduled report might fail in some cases with the error "Thrift::TException=HASH(0x9a65410)".
Conditions:
This occurs when sending scheduled reports.
Impact:
Failure on sending scheduled-report.
Workaround:
Modify the script to use the explicit address instead of the 'localhost' value. This can be achieved with the following command:
mount -o remount -rw /usr
sed -i 's/localhost/127\.0\.0\.1/' /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/F5/AVReporter/Client.pm
mount -o remount -r /usr
Fix:
Changing script to use explicit address instead of 'localhost'.
604977 : Wrong alert when DTLS cookie size is 32
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When ServerSSL profile using DTLS receives cookie with length of 32 bytes it throws fatal alert.
Conditions:
Another LTM with ClientSSL profile issues 32byte long cookie.
Impact:
DTLS with cookie size 32 is not supported.
604938 : Log IPsec tunnel up/down events
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
There is no way to detect via logging that the IPsec tunnel state has changed.
Conditions:
When an IPsec tunnel becomes ready (up) or not ready (down).
Impact:
It is difficult to react to changing network conditions without notification.
Fix:
A log entry is made whenever the IPsec tunnel state changes.
tmm IPsec: Tunnel up <source IP address> - <destination IP address>
tmm IPsec: Tunnel down <source IP address> - <destination IP address>
604926 : The TMM may become unresponsive when using SessionDB data larger than ~400K
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
There is a hard limit on messages sizes sent on the backplane on chassis platforms. Messages larger than the limit (~400K) are refused from being sent at a lower layer but buffered for resending at a higher layer. The messages are never sent which cases backplane communication to lockup.
Conditions:
The BIGIP must be chassis with more than one blade and client traffic must trigger the creation of SessionDB data larger than ~400K.
Impact:
The TMM will become unresponsive to client traffic. If left running under load, the TMM may run out of memory from buffering SessionDB data and crash.
Workaround:
The workaround is the avoid sending large SessionDB data. The TMM may be restarted in the event it does get stuck.
Fix:
There is no longer a hard limit for sending SessionDB data on the backplane.
604923 : REST id for Signatures change after update
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
The REST id of existing signatures are unexpectedly modified after updating a User Defined Signature, or downloading an Attack Signature Update that modifies existing signatures.
Conditions:
A User-Defined Signature is updated, or an ASU containing updated signatures is downloaded.
Impact:
The REST id of the modified signatures is changed which may confuse REST clients.
Workaround:
Execution of the following script will repair an affected device:
perl -MF5::Utils::Rest -MF5::DbUtils -MF5::ASMConfig::Entity::Signature -e '$dbh = F5::DbUtils::get_dbh(); $dbh->begin_work(); $dbh->do("UPDATE PLC.NEGSIG_SIGNATURES SET rest_uuid = \"\" "); F5::Utils::Rest::populate_uuids(dbh => $dbh, rest_entities => ["F5::ASMConfig::Entity::Signature"]); $dbh->commit();'
Fix:
Updated Signatures now retain the correct REST id.
604893 : ComplexType child elements in XML schema cannot have different values set in "fixed" attribute
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Within the XML schema definition, multiple child elements under a ComplexType cannot have different values set in "fixed" attribute.
Conditions:
Multiple child elements under a ComplexType in an XML schema are defined with different values set in "fixed" attribute.
Impact:
Subsequent elements are validated incorrectly with the initial element's definition.
Workaround:
Remove "fixed" attribute for subsequent elements in schema definition.
Fix:
Multiple child elements under a ComplexType may use different values set in "fixed" attribute.
604885 : Redirect/Route action doesn't work if there is an alert logging iRule
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
When "Trigger iRule Events" is enabled in FPS profile and there are configured FPS rules with Route/Redirect actions, the actions will not be performed.
Conditions:
"Trigger iRule Events" is enabled in FPS profile and the virtual server has at least one iRule with ANTIFRAUD_ALERT or ANTIFRAUD_LOGIN events.
Impact:
Configured FPS rules with Route/Redirect actions will not be performed.
Workaround:
Disabling the "Trigger iRule Events" in FPS profile.
Fix:
"Trigger iRule Events" no longer breaks FPS rules with configured Route/Redirect actions.
604880 : tmm assert "valid pcb" in tcp.c
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
tmm panic tcp.c:2435: Assertion "valid pcb" failed
Conditions:
Unknown.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
604838 : TCP Analytics reports incorrectly reports entities as "Aggregated"
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Although the user has configured TCP Analytics to store statistics for a certain entity, it reports data for that entity in a single "Aggregated" row.
Conditions:
ALL of these conditions must be true:
The TCP Analytics profile is attached to a virtual with both clientside or serverside collection turned off in the profile.
TCP profile has mptcp, rate-pace, tail-loss-probe, fast-open, AND enhanced-loss-recovery all disabled. Also, Nagle, send-buffer, receive-window, proxy-buffer are not in AUTO mode. Finally, rexmt-thresh is 3 and the congestion control algorithm is not delay-based (NewReno, HighSpeed, Cubic). Regrettably, this matches the default TCP profile.
An iRule enables TCP-Analytics when disabled by default in the tcp-analytics profile.
Impact:
Defect eliminates nearly all data granularity for TCP Analytics.
Workaround:
Change the TCP profile on the virtual to violate any of the conditions listed above. The easiest is probably to enable rate pace or mptcp. For all affected versions, this will result in a noticeable CPU performance penalty.
Fix:
Load entity information for both TCP stacks.
604768 : ACCESS::session iRules did not work with IP-based sessions
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
IP-based sessions rely on an internal IP to session mapping table. The ACCESS::session iRules were not using this table, so in IP-based session scenarios they never find the session.
A simple iRule like this should generate a lot of logs. In an IP-based session scenario it would never log.
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [ACCESS::session exists] } {
log local0. "Found Access Session"
}
}
Conditions:
SWG configuration with IP-based sessions. Attach an iRule to the virtual that includes ACCESS::session commands. They will not work as expected.
Impact:
ACCESS::session commands are essentially unavailable to IP-based sessions.
Fix:
All ACCESS::session commands were updated to read the IP to session mapping table when an access profile with IP-based sessions is attached to the virtual.
ACCESS::session create has been updated, and it respects the 1-1 correspondence between IP addresses and sessions. If this IP address already has an associated session, APM returns that session. Otherwise we create a new session, and add it to the table.
604767 : Importing SAML IdP's metadata on BIG-IP as SP may result in not complete configuration of IdP connector object.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When importing SAML IdP's metadata, certificate object might not be assigned as 'idp-certificate' value of saml-idp-connector object.
Conditions:
BIG-IP is used as SAML SP.
Impact:
Described behavior will result in misconfiguration. SAML WebSSO will subsequently fail.
Workaround:
Manually assign imported certificate as a 'idp-certificate' value of saml-idp-connector object.
604612 : Modified ASM cookie violation happens after upgrade to 12.1.x★
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
False positive modified ASM cookie violation. Perhaps other false positive cookie related violations.
Conditions:
System upgraded to 12.1.x. Existing end users are connected with their browsers to the site.
Impact:
False positive violations. A blocking page will be shown in case the modified ASM cookie is set to blocking (which is the default for this violation in case the policy is in blocking state).
Workaround:
There are three options:
A. Set the modified ASM cookie violation to transparent after an upgrade for some time after the upgrade.
B. Use the erase cookie blocking page as the default blocking page for some time after the upgrade.
C. Use an iRule similar to the following:
when ASM_REQUEST_DONE {
if {[ASM::violation names] contains "VIOLATION_MOD_ASM_COOKIE"} {
log local0. "remove TS01d2cce8 cookie"
HTTP::respond 302 Location "http://sub.some_domain.com/index.html?[ASM::support_id]" "Set-Cookie" "TS01d2cce8=deleteOldTSCookie;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT"
}
Fix:
Modified ASM cookie violation no longer happens after upgrade to this version.
604496 : SQL (Oracle) monitor daemon might hang.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
SQL (Oracle) monitor daemon might hang with high monitoring load (hundreds of monitors). DBDaemon debug log contains messages indicating hung connection aborting and that the address in use, unable to connect.
Conditions:
High number of SQL (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgresSQL) monitors. Slow SQL responses might make the condition worse.
Impact:
Flapping pool members connected to SQL monitors. Frequent aborts and restarts of SQL monitor daemon.
Workaround:
You can mitigate this issue in the following ways:
-- Reduce number of monitored pool members.
-- Reduce frequency of monitor interval.
-- Split monitors among multiple devices.
-- Run monitors on bladed systems.
Fix:
This release fixes the address-in-use issue, and contains multiple monitor improvements to handle aborts and restarts of the SQL monitor daemon as well so that the system handles hung connections without aborting.
604469 : Successive remote log operations trigger iRule Tcl error
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
iRule terminates unexpectedly with error:
01220001:3: TCL error: ... Traffic rejected
Conditions:
iRule must perform multiple log operations, where log destination is a remote host. Example:
log 192.0.2.1 "This will be sent to remote syslog"
log 192.0.2.1 "This will trigger Tcl error"
Impact:
iRule may not operate as expected.
Workaround:
Use High Speed Logging (HSL) as an alternative.
604371 : Pagination controls missing for GSLB pool members
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
The pagination controls for GSLB pool members do not appear when there are more items in the list than can be displayed (Record Per Screen)
Conditions:
Customer is running 12.1.0 or 12.1.1
Impact:
Unable to view the status of, or modify GSLB pool members beyond those displayed on the screen
Workaround:
Increase the number of Records Per Screen (System / Preferences / Records Per Screen) to a number larger than the number of items in your pool
604237 : Vlan allowed mismatch found error in VCMP guest
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Your vCMP guests are unable to reach the network. You see in /var/log/ltm "mcpd[5503]: 01071322:4: Vlan allowed mismatch found: hypervisor "
Conditions:
When a VLAN exists in the vlan-allowed list contains a VLAN which matches the suffix of another VLAN in the list and both VLANs are configured on the VCMP guest. For example, xyz and abc_xyz will produce the error "warning mcpd[6374]: 01071322:4: Vlan allowed mismatch found: hypervisor (abc_xyz:1860), guest (/Common/xyz:1850)."
Impact:
Unable to use VLAN.
Workaround:
Rename the VLANs such that no VLAN matches suffix of any other VLAN.
604133 : Ramcache may leave the HTTP Cookie Cache in an inconsistent state
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Ramcache may re-use internal HTTP data without clearing the cookie cache. If other filters later inspect that cache they may read corrupted cookie information, or cause a TMM crash.
Conditions:
Ramcache + another filter or iRule inspecting/modifying cookies in a Ramcache response.
Impact:
The modifications of the corrupt cookie cache may cause HTTP headers to be malformed. Inspecting the cookie cache may cause the TMM to crash with an assert. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Ramcache clears the HTTP cookie cache in its responses.
604061 : Link Aggregation Control Protocol May Lose Synchronization after TMM Crash
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Traffic does not pass through a trunk interface and /var/log/ltm contains messages such as:
lacpd[6636]: 01160011:6: Link 2.2 Actor Out of Sync
lacpd[6636]: 01160012:6: Link 2.2 Partner Out of Sync
Conditions:
1) BIG-IP 2000/4000 or similar platform where "qprop tmos.lacpd_depends_on_tmm == true"
2) Passive LACP trunk
3) tmm has crashed after box has come up
4) tmm startup delayed by dumping large core file
5) tmm startup delayed by large config or busy control plane
Impact:
Trunks created by LACP do not pass traffic.
Workaround:
Restart lacpd after tmm has come up again: "bigstart restart lacpd"
Alternatively, modify /etc/bigstart/scripts/tmm.finish to restart lacpd on tmm going down
Modify this line:
for d in admd asm avrd dosl7d; do
With these:
for d in lacpd admd asm avrd dosl7d; do
if [ `$BIGSTART singlestatus $d` = "run" ]; then
$BIGSTART restart $d &
fi
done
603997-1 : Plugin should not inject nonce to CSP header with unsafe-inline
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
When injecting CSP header values to enable FPS Plugin to work, unnecessary injections may break user's 'allow inline script' policy, since the more restrictive directive is always applied.
Conditions:
Server response contains either header from the "Content-Security-Policy" header.= family
Impact:
User's inline scripts will refuse to run since FPS Plugin injects nonce. This breaks user's application.
Workaround:
A fix has been deployed which makes 'unsafe-inline' and 'nonce' directives mutually exclusive. If user's CSP header allows inline scripts, we do not inject nonce.
Fix:
CSP header's 'unsafe-inline' and 'nonce' directive injection has been made mutually exclusive.
603979 : Data transfer from the BIG-IP system self IP might be slow
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When a large amount of data needs to be transferred using a selp IP address, the BIG-IP system might send out fragmented IP packets with both the DF and MF bits set. Setting both bits is RFC compliant and valid, however some routers drop such packets. This might result in retransmissions and low throughput
Conditions:
This occurs when a self IP address processes large data transfers, and the router between the two endpoints does not process the IP fragments that have both the DF and MF bits set.
Impact:
Data transfer from the BIG-IP system's self IP might be slow.
Workaround:
Run the following command: ethtool -K tmm tso off.
Note: This has a different effect from setting db key tm.tcpsegmentationoffload to "disable" (which will not workaround the issue).
Note: To persist the effect of this command across reboots, use the solution specified in K14397: Running a command or custom script based on a syslog message, available here: https://support.f5.com/csp/#/article/K14397. For example,
alert tmmready "Tmm ready" {
exec command="/sbin/ethtool -K tmm tso off"
}
603945 : BD config update should be considered as config addition in case of update failure
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
A configuration update fails when the system cannot find the item to update. Configuration failures are shown in bd.log.
Conditions:
The condition that leads to this scenario is not clear and is still under investigation.
Impact:
The update fails and the entity is not added.
Workaround:
Delete the faulty entity and re-add, and then issue the following command: restart asm.
This fixes the issue in the cases in which it is a single entity.
Fix:
A configuration update no longer fails when the system cannot find the item to update. Now, the system adds the item with its updated value if the entity does not already exist. Otherwise, the operation updates the value of the existing entry.
603825 : Crash when a Gy update message is received by a debug TMM
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
Debug TMM will crash when a Gy update message is received.
Conditions:
- Need a Debug TMM running
- Gy update message must be received by the BIG-IP
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Use non-debug TMM.
Fix:
Added checks to detect Gy udpate messages and handle them accordingly in the debug TMM. Thus, preventing a crash in the debug TMM.
603772 : Floating tunnels with names more than 15 characters may cause issues during config-sync.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Floating tunnels with names more than 15 characters may cause issues in config-sync, because such a long name is truncated when creating a corresponding Linux tunnel interface.
Conditions:
The BIG-IP system consists of both floating and non-floating tunnels and their names are longer than 15 characters.
Impact:
When the config-sync happens, the following error may occur:
Caught configuration exception (0), Cannot create tunnel 'g123456789abc~1' in rd0 - ioctl failed: File exists.
Workaround:
Some workarounds are available:
- Make sure that tunnel names are less than 16 characters; or
- Make sure that the names of floating and non-floating tunnels do not share a common prefix in the first 15 characters; or
- Make sure that the BIG-IP system does not have a mixture of floating and non-floating tunnels.
603723 : TLS v1.0 fallback can be triggered intermittently and fail with restrictive server setup
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
HTTPS monitors mark a TLS v1.2-configured pool member down and never mark it back up again, even if the pool member is up. The monitor works normally until the SSL handshake fails for any reason. After the handshake fails, the monitor falls back to TLS v1.1, which the pool members reject, and the node remains marked down.
Conditions:
This might occur when the following conditions are met:
-- Using HTTPS monitors.
-- Pool members are configured to use TLS v1.2 only.
Impact:
Once the handshake fails, the monitor remains in fallback mode and sends TLS v1.0 or TLS v1.1 requests to the pool member. The pool member remains marked down.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The system now successfully handles TLS v1.0 fallback when pool members are configured to use TLS v1.2 only, so pool members are correctly marked as being up.
603690 : CPU Saver option not working while the "latency" compression provider selection algorithm is in use.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
CPU Saver option not working while the "latency" compression provider selection algorithm is in use.
Conditions:
APM Edge Client over VPN tunnel. The issue tends to occur when CPR Saver is configured on the Edge Client on devices where hardware compression cannot perform the specific type of compression/decompression being requested.
Impact:
Edge Client shows the VPN tunnel as "Connected" but no traffic flow. This is an intermittent issue.
Workaround:
#1 Enable CPU Saver in the secure connectivity profile:
GUI: Access Policy :: Secure Connectivity :: profile_name :: Compression Settings :: Network Access :: CPU Saver [checkbox].
SHELL: tmsh modify apm profile connectivity dummy compress-cpu-saver true.
#2 Configure compression strategy to "SPEED" (from LATENCY)
SHELL: tmsh modify sys db compression.strategy value "speed".
Fix:
Fixed an issue with the CPU Saver option not working while the "latency" compression provider selection algorithm was in use. This mitigates a bottleneck when Software Compression is in use, correcting a problem with the tunnel stalling.
603679 : Edge client does not log configuration parameters recieved from server
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Edge client does not log network access configuration parameters received from server. This makes troubleshooting of client issues difficult.
Conditions:
Edge client is used to establish VPN connection.
Impact:
Makes troubleshooting difficult,
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Edge client now logs configuration parameters received from APM.
603667 : TMM may leak or corrupt memory when configuration changes occur with plugins in use
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM may leak memory when plugins are in use and the plugin is re-initialized (typically due to configuration changes). In rare cases, memory corruption may occur causing TMM to restart.
Conditions:
Plugin-based functionality configured (ASM, APM, etc.) and configuration changes occur.
Impact:
The memory leakage generally occurs infrequently and at a rate that TMM operations are not affected. However, when memory corruption occurs, a traffic interruption may occur due to TMM restarting.
Workaround:
No workaround except disabling plugin-based functionality (such as ASM, APM, etc.).
Fix:
TMM now properly manages plugin memory, and no longer leaks or corrupts this memory.
603605 : Cannot install DoS Hybrid Defender on standby device in HA pair if it's already installed on active
Component: iApp Technology
Symptoms:
After installation, the rpm on active device applications will be replicated to the standby. If standby does not have DHD installed, the installation page is never shown.
Conditions:
HA setup for DoS Hybrid Defender, with DHD only installed on Active.
Impact:
HA cannot be supported for DHD application on 12.1.0 and 12.1.1.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Can now install DoS Hybrid Defender on standby device in HA pair if it's already installed on active.
603598 : big3d memory under extreme load conditions
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
big3d memory consumption can grow if big3d is unable to process monitor requests in a timely fashion.
This can be seen by monitoring the memory consumption of big3d using standard OS tools such as top.
Conditions:
big3d maintains a queue for monitor requests.
Incoming monitor requests are first placed in the Pending queue.
Requests are moved from the Pending queue to the Active queue, if there is room in the Active queue.
When the Pending queue is full, there is no room for the Monitor Request. big3d attempts to clean up the Monitor request, but fails to completely free the memory.
This might result in a significant memory leak.
For this to happen, the Active queue must be full as well as the Pending queue.
One possible condition that might cause this is if multiple Monitors time out. This results in Monitors having long life times, which keeps the Active queue full.
Thus the Pending queue might become full and the memory leak can occur.
In BIG-IP 11.1.0 versions of big3d,
the Active queue has 256 slots and
the Pending queue has 4096 slots.
In BIG-IP 11.1.0-hf3, the queue sizes were expanded to
2048 for the Active queue and 16384 for the Pending queue.
Since the queues were smaller n versions prior to
11.1.0-hf3, this leaks is more likely to manifest itself.
In later versions, the leak is still possible, but is less likely to occur.
Impact:
big3d memory consumption grows unbounded. This might result in a big3d restart or memory starvation of other processes.
Workaround:
This can be partially mitigated by ensuring that monitors
settings are reasonable and that big3d is not overloaded.
This will minimize the chances that the Pending queue
does not become full.
There is no mechanism to resize the queues.
Fix:
When a monitor request is unable to be placed in the queue, the memory for the request is freed properly.
603550 : Virtual servers that use both FastL4 and HTTP profiles at same time will have incorrect syn cache stats.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Virtual server remains in syncookie mode even after the syn flood stops.
As a result of this issue, you might see the following symptoms:
-- Virtual servers that use both FastL4 and HTTP profiles might show incorrect 'Current SYN Cache' stats.
-- Virtual stats 'Current SYN Cache' does not decrease.
Conditions:
This issue occurs when the configuration contains a virtual server that uses FastL4 as a filter (for example, has both the FastL4 profile and layer 7 profile (HTTP) syn flood to the virtual server).
Impact:
The virtual server stays stuck in syncookie mode after the synflood is over, and does not recover.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Virtual servers that use both FastL4 and HTTP profiles will have correct syn cache stats.
603479 : "ASM starting" while it's already running, causing the restart of all ASM daemons
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
ASM daemons suddenly restart, w/ the message "ASM Starting" in '/var/log/asm', while ASM is already running and without ASM stopping first.
Conditions:
Unknown
Impact:
ASM daemons restart
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
We have prevented the ASM start script from being executed if it is already running.
Thus, preventing the possibility of a spurious ASM Start while it's already running.
603397 : tmm core on MRF when routing via MR::message route iRule command using a non-existant transport-config
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
tmm will core if the transport config specified in a MR::message route iRule command does not exist.
Conditions:
the transport config specified in a MR::message route iRule command does not exist.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Use the correct name for the trasnport-config object.
Fix:
fixed a tmm core.
603293 : Incorrect handling of L4 Dynamic ACL when it is processed together with L7 ACLs
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
L4 Dynamic ACL is not applied to incoming traffic when assigned in combination with L7 ACL.
Conditions:
APM supports a combination of L7 ACL and L4 ACL to be assigned to one session. When L7 ACLs are assigned with higher priority than L4 ACLs, the processing of L4 ACLs is automatically deferred until L7 information is available. The issue here is that when none of L7 ACLs with higher priority match with the traffic, L4 ACL is incorrectly marked to be applied only to HTTP traffic. Therefore if the incoming traffic is not HTTP, for example, HTTPS, then this particular dynamic L4 ACL is bypassed.
Impact:
L4 Dynamic ACL is not applied correctly.
Workaround:
Reorder L4 ACLs with higher priority than L7 ACLs, if possible, or to prevent the issue from occurring, avoid assigning L7 ACLs if not needed.
Fix:
When L7 ACL is assigned in combination to L4 Dynamic ACL, L4 Dynamic ACL is correctly applied to all kinds of traffic, not only HTTP traffic.
603236 : 1k/4k creation issue at Safenet 6.2 + 6.10.9 fw
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Creating 1024 and 4096 size keys fail when the safenet client version installed on bigip is 6.2 and Safenet appliance firmware is 6.10.9.
Conditions:
Safenet appliance: 6.2
Safenet firmware: 6.10.9
Safenet client: 6.2
Impact:
Can't create 1k/4k RSA key.
Fix:
Removed the config line, RSAKeyGenMechRemap = 1, that is conflicting with 6.10.9 firmware.
603234 : Performance Improvements
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
Certain detection algorithms can slow down the client application.
Conditions:
FPS enabled, full AJAX encryption enabled
Impact:
Client side AJAX detection can be slow.
Fix:
The performance of some detection algorithms has been improved
603149 : Large ike-phase2-lifetime-kilobytes values in racoon ipsec-policy
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Setting max data limit transmitted (in kilobytes) to a very large limit results in a smaller limit, causing SAs to expire too quickly. Values for ike-phase2-lifetime-kilobytes inside ipsec-policy can reach 2^32-1 kilobytes, but will be processed incorrectly, as if the value were smaller.
Conditions:
When lifetime-kilobytes is large enough, it can act as though it were smaller.
Impact:
Negotiated SAs expire too quickly when size lifetime is calculated too small.
Workaround:
Before the fix, decrease lifetime-kilobytes until properly stable.
Fix:
The fix should make every value no more than 4294967295 kilobytes work correctly, without becoming some smaller value. (Note this value is 2^32-1.) If the size of ike-phase2-lifetime-kilobytes becomes 64-bit in the future, this will also work, causing a 64-bit value for kilobytes to occur in isakmp negotiation.
603087 : Cannot access Security tab (needed for assigning ASM/FPS profiles) when viewing the Resources tab.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Cannot access Security tab (needed for assigning ASM/FPS profiles) when viewing the Resources tab.
Conditions:
On the Virtual Server/Resources page.
Impact:
Usability impaired. User cannot assign ASM/FPS profiles from the Resources tab.
Workaround:
Go to Properties to access the Security tab.
Fix:
Security tab is now available under Virtual Server/Resources page if security-related ASM/FPS modules are provisioned.
603082 : Ephemeral pool members are getting deleted/created over and over again.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When fqdn nodes are configured, you may see ephemeral pool members getting created and deleted continuously. In severe cases, this can cause mcpd to run out of memory and crash.
Conditions:
It is not known exactly what triggers this condition, but it has been observed after running bigstart restart in a configuration containing many fqdn nodes.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while mcpd restarts.
603081 : EdgeClient now supports hosts whitelisting in locked mode
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Edge client's locked mode blocks access to all network locations until the user establishes a VPN connection to a trusted APM. However, this does not work when APM is configured to use delegated auth because access to external identity provider (IdP) is blocked.
Conditions:
EdgeClient in locked mode on windows machine.
Impact:
No way to whitelist certain hosts when locked client mode is used.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The system now supports pre-configured hosts to which the traffic is never blocked until VPN is established, so you can whitelist known identity providers (IdPs) and other sites that are deemed harmless, which improves the usability of locked client mode. After VPN establishment client behaves according to Network Access resource configuration.
603071 : XHTML validation fails on obfuscated JavaScript
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
The obfuscated JavaScript injected by ASM for CSRF protection and other features causes web pages to fail w3c validation.
Conditions:
CSRF or WebScrapping enabled in ASM policy
Impact:
Threre is no end user impact, but if checking the page with w3c online validator it returns errors
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Wrapped the script in CDATA - the validator will not complain on errors.
603032 : clientssl profiles with sni-default enabled may leak X509 objects
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
SSL memory consumption grows when virtuals with sni-default-enabled clientssl profiles are modified.
Conditions:
clientssl profile with sni-default enabled combined with configuration manipulations of virtuals with such profiles.
Impact:
The amount of leakage will depending on the number of virtuals with sni-default-enabled clientssl profiles and frequency of configuration manipulations. For large configurations, the leakage can be very noticeable over time.
Workaround:
No workaround short of not using sni-default.
Fix:
SSL now handles sni-default-enabled clientssl profiles without leaking the X509 objects.
603029 : Secure alerts and phishing alerts are shown URL-encoded
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
Some alerts show in the dashboard in URL encoded form.
Conditions:
Secure alerts and phishing alerts contain special characters.
Impact:
Alerts are shown in the alert dashboard in URL encoded form.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Alerts are no longer sent double-URL encoded.
603019 : Inserted SIP VIA branch parameter not unique between INVITE and ACK
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
The branch parameter of the inserted VIA header is sometimes the same between an INVITE and ACK message.
Conditions:
If the CSEQ number of a SIP message is the same, the inserted VIA header will contain the same branch parameter.
Impact:
SIP proxy servers which perform strict message validations may reject the call.
Fix:
Included a hash of the branch parameter of the received top-most via header into the branch parameter of the inserted via header. Thus is the received top-most via conforms to the spec and generates a different branch parameter between INVITE and ACK, the inserted via will have a different branch parameter.
602887 : User-friendly message regarding SSL connection errors via Portal Access.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If Virtual server with Portal Access is not configured to support SSL connections to back-end servers, client would see connection errors without any explanation trying to use HTTPS URLs.
Conditions:
Virtual server with Portal Access but without SSL support for back-end servers.
Impact:
Client cannot connect to HTTPS back-end via this Virtual server, but there is no any error messages describing real reason.
Fix:
Now client receives readable error page which explains why it is impossible to use HTTPS back-ends with such Virtual server.
It is expected that 'Use HTTP Status 503 for Error Pages' option is enabled in Access Profile to make this error condition recognizable by browser.
602854 : Missing ASM control option from LTM policy rule screen in the Configuration utility
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In the Configuration utility, when creating or editing a LTM policy, the ASM control option may be missing from the rule screen.
Conditions:
Whether the ASM control option is present or missing purely depends on the license installed on the system.
The system incorrectly reports certain licensed modules to the Configuration utility, which fails to parse them and ultimately to display the ASM control option. If you wish to determine whether you are affected by this issue, SSH to the advanced shell of the BIG-IP system and run this command:
# grep -E '^active module : [^|]*\|[^|]*$' /config/bigip.license
If any output is returned, then you are affected by this issue.
Impact:
ASM cannot be enabled in LTM policies using the Configuration utility.
Workaround:
Use the TMSH utility to enable ASM in LTM policies.
Fix:
ASM can now be enabled in LTM policies using the Configuration utility regardless of the license installed on the system.
602691 : Regular expression in XML schema pattern validation fails (libxml bug)
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Regular expression in XML schema pattern validation fails (libxml bug). Violation "XML data does not comply with schema or WSDL document" triggered for SOAP request.
Conditions:
ASM process XML regexp such as the following: "[a-z][a-z\-]{0,10}[a-z]".
Impact:
XML WSDL document schema not comply for regular expression range of occurrences.
Workaround:
Change to an alternative regular expression.
Fix:
Upgrade libxml2 to libxml2-2.7.6-21.el6_8.1 to support XML regexp such as the following: "[a-z][a-z\-]{0,10}[a-z]".
602654 : TMM crash when using AVR lookups
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
When some module try to find/insert data into AVR lookups TMM/AVR core can occurs.
The Crash occur when two process try to "touch" the same cell in the lookup simultaneously×¥
Conditions:
AVR lookups is use by any modules.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
We removed wrong assert from the lookups code
602653 : TMM may crash after updating bot-signatures
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
TMM may crash after DOSL7 bot signatures config has changed.
Conditions:
This is likely to happen after DOSL7 bot signatures config has changed.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Try adding/removing some signatures, this should avoid the crash.
Fix:
Fixed a memory corruption when updating bot signatures.
602642 : tmm assert "cipher_init_dual failed"
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
With the tmm under memory pressure, setup of a new IPsec tunnel resulted in an assert "cipher_init_dual failed" when memory was not available.
Conditions:
The tmm under memory pressure and a new IPsec tunnel being created.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Monitor memory usage.
Fix:
IPsec will gracefully handle the out of memory condition instead of asserting.
602568 : Updated Default Ciphersuite Group
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Changes were made to DEFAULT in LTM SSL profiles in order to improve SSL ciphersuite group selection. When "DEFAULT" group is used, the following changes have been made.
Original Default Ciphersuite Group
RSA+DH
RSA
RSA+ECDH
Original Default + ECDHE_ECDSA
RSA+DH
RSA
RSA+ECDH
ECDSA+ECDH
Update to:
"DEFAULT" will contain ciphersuites in the following categories in this order in the BIG-IP system's view:
RSA+ECDH
RSA
ECDSA+ECDH
RSA+DH
In addition, each category will be sorted by speed with AES-128-equivalent as the minimum strength (commonly referred to as "128-bit security strength").
Conditions:
This is the new default in this release.
Impact:
Changes were made to DEFAULT in LTM SSL profiles in order to improve SSL ciphersuite group selection when "DEFAULT" group is used.
Workaround:
None. This is cosmetic.
Fix:
"DEFAULT" contains ciphersuites in the following categories in this order in the BIG-IP system's view:
RSA+ECDH
RSA
ECDSA+ECDH
RSA+DH
In addition, each category will be sorted by speed with AES-128-equivalent as the minimum strength (commonly referred to as "128-bit security strength").
Behavior Change:
Changes were made to DEFAULT in LTM SSL profiles in order to improve SSL ciphersuite group selection. When "DEFAULT" group is used, the following changes have been made.
Original Default Ciphersuite Group
RSA+DH
RSA
RSA+ECDH
Original Default + ECDHE_ECDSA
RSA+DH
RSA
RSA+ECDH
ECDSA+ECDH
Update to:
"DEFAULT" will contain ciphersuites in the following categories in this order in the BIG-IP system's view:
RSA+ECDH
RSA
ECDSA+ECDH
RSA+DH
In addition, each category will be sorted by speed with AES-128-equivalent as the minimum strength (commonly referred to as "128-bit security strength").
602566 : sod daemon may crash during start-up
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
sod daemon produces core file during start-up
Conditions:
sod encounters an error during start-up and attempts to recover.
Impact:
sod restarts
Fix:
Reset freed pointers to prevent double free during error recovery.
602508 : Capture historical changes of config files
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Sometimes errors can be traced to config file changes but knowing what the config file had at the time of the problem is impossible to infer.
Conditions:
A user changes a config file and the system starts to have issues. The issues get reported, but the config file is changed again and we no longer can reproduce the issues.
Impact:
When investigating problems on BIGIP systems, the configuration files pose the biggest impact on how the system behaves. Having a historical recreation of the configuration files can help immensely in figuring out the problem.
Workaround:
The user can copy their config files into a backup directory every time a change is made and saved.
Fix:
The fix keeps a diff every time a config file is changed and this is then saved in a qkview that gets uploaded to ihealth. In post analysis, it is possible to reconstruct any of the captured config differences based on timestamps.
602502 : Unable to view the SSL Cert list from the GUI
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When you try to see information about any SSL certificates in the GUI, it displays an error: An error has occurred while trying to process your request.
Conditions:
Can not view any SSL certificates in the GUI if at least one certificate has a double extension(like test.crt.crt) in its name.
Impact:
Unable to view the any SSL Cert from the GUI
Workaround:
Delete such certificate through TMSH and reimport without .crt extension in the certificate name.
delete sys file ssl-cert test.crt.crt
Fix:
Should be able to view/delete/export certificates from GUI.
602434 : Tmm crash with compressed response
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
AVR decompressed all the traffic in order to do classification.
This can cause tmm core due to too many decompress request.
Conditions:
Sending stressed compressed traffic on virtual with dos profile.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
AVR will ask no more than 10 decompressed request simultaneously.
602385 : Add zLib compression
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Current driver supports only compress GZip and compress deflate.
Conditions:
APM Network Access tunnel has an option for compression. Compression is implemented in GZIP hudfilter which uses COMPRESS_ZLIB compression method. Currently only 'zlib' compression provider (software based) is implementing this method. None of the hardware providers (such as Coleto Creek) support it; they support COMPRESS_DEFLATE and COMPRESS_GZIP. GZIP hudfilter could use all 3 methods, but only ZLIB is compatible with current and older versions of the client. To preserve backward compatibility it must use ZLIB.
Impact:
Current compression hardware (such as Coleto Creek) is needed to support ZLIB method, otherwise compression in APM Network Access tunnel does not scale.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
zLib compression is now supported.
602366 : Safenet 6.2 HA performance
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
With Safenet 6.2 HA setup, you only sees the performance of one HSM.
Conditions:
Safenet 6.2 client is installed and Safenet HA is used.
Impact:
Only one HSM is used for the HA setup.
Workaround:
Add primary hsm to the newly created ha group
/shared/safenet/lunasa/bin/lunacm -c hagroup createGroup -serialNumber 464683014 -label ha_test -password <pw>
or
echo "copy" | /shared/safenet/lunasa/bin/lunacm -c hagroup createGroup -serialNumber 464683014 -label ha_test -password <pw>
Add following hsm to the ha group
/shared/safenet/lunasa/bin/lunacm -c hagroup addMember -serialNumber 470379014 -group ha_test -password <pw>
Enable HAonly
/shared/safenet/lunasa/bin/lunacm -c hagroup HAOnly -enable
Delete ha group
/shared/safenet/lunasa/bin/lunacm -c hagroup deleteGroup -label ha_test
Fix:
Installation script is updated for Safenet 6.2 HA.
602358 : BIG-IP ServerSSL connection may reset during rengotiation with some SSL/TLS servers due to ClientHello version
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
During SSL/TLS renegotiation, the TLS standard requires that the new ClientHello version matches the first session.
Usually, SSL/TLS servers require the new ClientHello version to match the previous negotiated (ServerHello) version. The BIG-IP ServerSSL default behavior is to match this requirement.
The problem occurs if the SSL/TLS server requires the ClientHello (both in the Record layer and Handshake Protocol) in the new ClientHello to be exactly the same as the SSL/TLS version of the first ClientHello; that is:
************************************************************
1st ClientHello record layer version == 2nd ClientHello record layer version;
1st ClientHello Handshake Protocol version == 2nd ClientHello Handshake Protocol version.
************************************************************
As a result, the SSL/TLS server will reject the renegotiation handshake, causing the connection to terminate.
Conditions:
This occurs when using virtual servers configured with one or more ServerSSL profiles, and an SSL/TLS renegotiation occurs, and the server requires the new ClientHello version to match the first ClientHello instead of the previous ServerHello version.
Impact:
SSL/TLS renegotiation between BIG-IP ServerSSL profile and server may fail, resulting in an unexpected connection close or reset.
Workaround:
Manually setting the ciphers in the ServerSSL to TLS1.0 can solve the issue.
Fix:
A new db variable called ssl.RenegotiateWithInitialClientHello has been added to control the SSL/TLS version in the 2nd ClientHello:
1. The default is disable, which means that the 2nd ClientHello SSL/TLS version will be set to the negotiated version in the 1st round ServerHello.
2. If it is set to enable, both ClientHello versions will be exactly the same.
602326 : Intermittent pkcs11d core when installing Safenet 6.2 software
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Sometimes you may see pkcs11d core when stopping/restarting pkcs11d service.
Conditions:
bigstart issues "stop" to pkcs11d while pkcs11d receives message.
Impact:
pkcs11d may core intermittently.
Workaround:
pkcs11d may automatically restart without intervention.
Fix:
Fixed pkcs11d signal handler and avoid sys_call in the signal handler.
602300 : Zone Runner entries cannot be modified when sys DNS starts with IPv6 address
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Zone Runner entries cannot be modified if an IPv6 DNS name server is listed first. This can happen when a user runs the tmsh command
tmsh modify sys dns name-servers add { <IPv6> }
as the first dns name-server.
This will show in the /etc/resolv.conf file (an example)
nameserver 2001::1
nameserver 192.168.100.1
Conditions:
When an IPv6 nameserver is the first server defined.
Impact:
ZoneRunner records cannot be modified.
Workaround:
Do not use DNS server with IPv6 address or add IPv4 server at top of the list.
Fix:
The IP address type was not set properly while communicating with BIND. This does not matter if the first nameserver listed is an IPv4 address or if there are no nameservers listed at all.
If the first nameserver listed is an IPv6 and the IP address type is not set to IPv4 (AF_INET), BIND libraries will attempt to use the IPv6 library from /etc/resolv.conf.
We not properly set the AF_INET type to IPv4.
602221 : Wrong parsing of redirect Domain
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
ASM learns wrong domain names
Conditions:
no '/' after domain name in the redirect domain
Impact:
wrong learning suggestion can lead to wrong policy
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Fixing an issue with parsing the URL in the location header
602171 : TMM may core when remote LSN operations time out
Component: Carrier-Grade NAT
Symptoms:
TMM configured with LSN may core during high utilization, when local endpoint resources are exhausted, and request for remote resources times out.
Conditions:
LSN remote operation time out. LSN can request remote TMM for resources when local resources are exhausted, when such request time out, this can result in a core in affected versions.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
TMM LSN remote operations will no longer cause core.
602159 : The field "Maximum" connections of websocket and http2 profile statistics show different values between tmsh and GUI
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The field "Maximum" connections of websocket and http2 profile statistics show different values between tmsh and GUI.
Conditions:
Concurrent WebSocket or HTTP/2 connections are seen.
Impact:
Statistics mismatch between GUI and tmsh.
Workaround:
GUI statistics for the maximum connections field are accurate. Use those.
602154 : Multidomain SSO loses POST data because of HTTP 302
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In multidomain SSO, when accessing a virtual with a POST, the user may be redirected to the auth virtual. When the user is redirected back to the original url, we lose the original POST data. This is because we use HTTP 302, which allows the browser to change the method. In these situations we should use 307, which does not allow the browser to change the method.
Conditions:
This is difficult to avoid if the access policy needs to run on the auth virtual. This bug is about saving the POST when the policy has already run, and we are only redirecting to the auth virtual to receive the cookie.
Impact:
User sends a GET to the resource, instead of the POST that should have been sent.
Workaround:
An iRule can be used to change some of the 302 redirects to a 307.
when HTTP_REQUEST {
set uri [HTTP::uri]
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE {
if { [HTTP::status] contains "302" && ([HTTP::header value "Location"] contains "SSO_ORIG_URI" || $uri contains "SSO_ORIG_URI") } {
HTTP::header replace ":S" "307 Temporary Redirect"
}
}
Fix:
When redirecting to and from the auth virtual, we now use a 307. We continue using 302 with redirects to /my.policy and other parts of running the access policy. In those situations, a 307 could cause the browser to resend the POST made to an APM login page.
602136 : iRule drop command causes tmm segfault or still sends 3-way handshake to the server.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If you have a client-side iRule that drops a client-side connection, either tmm will segfault or the BIG-IP system still sends the SYN to the server, and then a RST. The reset cause will be 'TCP 3WHS rejected'.
Conditions:
Client-side iRule that drops a connection.
Impact:
TMM segfaults or the BIG-IP system still sends a SYN to the server.
Workaround:
None.
602040 : Truncated support ID for HTTP protocol security logging profile
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The HTTP Protocol Security logging profile yields to incomplete support ID published in the local storage.
Conditions:
Configuration: LTM with Protocol Security Module provisioned, LTM virtual server with HTTP Protocol Security and local-storage logging profile attached. The log-db entries created by the HTTP Protocol Security logging profile have a truncated support ID.
Impact:
The support ID presented to the user does not match the one in the logs because the log entry is truncated (missing a few digits)
Workaround:
There is no workaround
601989 : Remote LDAP system authenticated username is case sensitive★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Unable to login via ssh, with cause being reported as "user account has expired". Wrong role being assigned for remote-user.
Conditions:
The character-case for the username returned from LDAP must match the login username and the configured account name. This can be exposed on an upgrade from 11.6.0 to 12.1.0 or later.
Impact:
Unable to login via ssh with remote-user or remote-user being assigned incorrect role when multiple accounts exists with the same name and mixed case.
Workaround:
Avoid configure same account username with different case and the authenticated user account in TMOS and used to login should exactly match the user account name returned from LDAP.
Fix:
When logging in to BIG-IP via ssh, the case of the logged-in user name is preserved when authenticating against an LDAP source, and matched in a case-sensitive manner to the appropriate locally defined user role.
601938 : MCPD stores certain data incorrectly
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In some cases MCPD data is not stored as designed.
Conditions:
In some cases MCPD data is not stored as designed.
Impact:
MCPD data not stored as designed. MCPD continues to operate normally.
Workaround:
Rebooting BIG-IP will correct data storage.
Fix:
Improve MCPD data storage
601927 : Security hardening of control plane
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
File permissions changes needed as found by internal testing
Conditions:
N/A
Impact:
N/A
Fix:
Apply latest security practices to control plane files.
601924 : Selenium detection by ports scanning doesn't work even if the ports are opened
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
When selenium server package is running on an end point and a traffic being sent from there, proactive bot defense mechanism doesn't see selenium server opened ports.
Conditions:
This occurs when ASM is provisioned with proactive bot defense enabled.
Impact:
Low impact as the selenium detection by ports scan has a low score and doesn't mitigate a client, unless it has another suspicious client properties (for example tor browser)
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Ports scanning has fixed - wider range of ports are scanned.
601919 : Custom categories and custom url filter assignment must be specific to partition instead of global lookup
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Custom categories lookup and matching is not partition specific.
Conditions:
Create SWG Explicit VS, access policy, per-request policy, custom-category with a glob URL and URL filter in custom partition say partition1
and similarly create similar set in partition2 (Note make sure the glob URL is matched in custom categories in 2 different partitions). Set the browser to explicit proxy:port information of partition1 VS and access the URL to be matched to the custom category.
Impact:
Partition specific custom category match is not available if user specific whitelist needs to be applied.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Code to check custom categories only for the partition that connflow belongs to and Common partition has been added
601905 : POST requests may not be forwarded to backend server when EAM plugin is enabled on the virtual server
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
POST requests appear to hang when they are sent through a virtual server with EAM plugin enabled.
Conditions:
Most likely, the POST request contains large post data.
Impact:
The POST request will fail.
Workaround:
The following iRule will workaround the issue:
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if {[HTTP::method] eq "POST"}{
# Trigger collection for up to $max_collect of data
set max_collect 1000000
if {[HTTP::header "Content-Length"] ne "" && [HTTP::header "Content-Length"] <= $max_collect}{
set content_length [HTTP::header "Content-Length"]
} else {
set content_length $max_collect
}
# Check if $content_length is not set to 0
if { $content_length > 0} {
HTTP::collect $content_length
}
}
601888 : IKE Peer name not validated against special characters
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
GUI: User not able to view configuration of a an IpSec with special characters in its name.
Conditions:
IpSec with special characters in it name.
Impact:
GUI: User not able to view configuration of a an IpSec with special characters in its name.
Workaround:
Special characters should not be used in IPsec, IKE Peer and Traffic Selector names.
Fix:
Added URL encoding for IPsec, IKE Peer and Traffic Selector names since these fields can have special characters
601828 : An untrusted certificate can cause TMM to crash.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If the certificate sent by an SSL server to the server-side bigip profile is untrusted, TMM might crash.
Conditions:
A server-side SSL profile is attached to a virtual server, and the SSL server sends an untrusted certificate to the BIGIP.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
The BIGIP will now log the certificate name `unknown' if an SSL server sends an untrusted certificate.
601709-1 : I2C error recovery for BIGIP 4340N/4300 blades
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The I2C internal bus for the front switch may not work. The fix recovers from the problem when it happens.
Conditions:
This rarely happens.
Impact:
Corrupted serial number information from SFPs, and fiber SFPs may not come up.
Workaround:
bigstart restart bcm56xxd
Fix:
The system now ensures that the I2C internal bus can recover from occasional errors.
601536 : Analytics load error stops load of configuration★
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
After upgrading, the configuration fails to load and you see this log message: 01071ac1:3: Non-Comulative metric (max-request-throughput) cannot be calculated per single entity (pool-member).
Unexpected Error: Validating configuration process failed.
Conditions:
This can occur any time the analytics configuration was valid in a previous release and is no longer valid. For example, if you have an analytics profile set at pool-member granularity, it will load in 12.0.0 but will fail to load on 12.1.0 as granularity must be set at the virtual-server level, not the pool level.
Impact:
Configuration fails to load, will not pass traffic.
Workaround:
Fixing the configuration manually is the only option when this occurs. In the pool-member granularity example, you can check all your analytics profiles for granularity pool-member and set them to granularity virtual-server.
601527 : mcpd memory leak and core
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Mcpd can leak memory during config update or config sync.
Conditions:
All of the conditions that trigger this are not known but it seems to occur during full configuration sync and is most severe on the config sync peers. It was triggered making a single change on the primary by configuring a monitor rule, e.g., tmsh create ltm pool p members { 1.2.3.4:80 } monitor http
Impact:
Loss of memory over time, which may result in out-of-memory and mcpd core.
Fix:
Fixed a memory lean in mcpd
601502 : Excessive OCSP traffic
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
With OCSP configured on a virtual server, you see excessive OCSP requests going to the OCSP server.
Conditions:
Virtual server configured with an OCSP profile
Impact:
OCSP responses are not cached properly and excessive requests are sent to the server.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
OCSP responses are now cached properly, so excessive requests are no longer sent to the server.
601496 : iRules and OCSP Stapling
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Using certain iRules on virtual servers with OCSP Stapling enabled on the Client SSL profile might cause OCSP requests to be reissued, resulting in a memory leak.
You may notice warning messages similar to the following in /var/log/ltm:
warning tmm[11300]: 011e0003:4: Aggressive mode sweeper: /Common/default-eviction-policy (0) (global memory) 115 Connections killed.
Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
-- Virtual server with OCSP Stabling enabled.
-- iRule attached to the virtual server that uses SSL::renegotiate.
Impact:
TMM memory used increases gradually, eventually the aggressive mode sweeper is activated.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Using certain iRules on virtual servers with OCSP Stapling enabled on the Client SSL profile no longer causes OCSP requests to be reissued, so there is no associated memory leak.
601420 : Possible SAML authentication loop with IE and multi-domain SSO.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When APM is configured with SAML authentication and multi-domain SSO, Internet Explorer may encounter authentication loop and never complete the access policy.
Conditions:
APM is configured with SAML authentication and multi-domain SSO.
Impact:
Using Internet Explorer, the client may not be unable to connect to its desired destination.
Workaround:
Chrome and Firefox do not seem to be affected.
Fix:
Use cookie for session for multi-domain if TOKEN lookup fails. Previously, the cookie was ignored for multi-domain response URI. However, with the introduction of TOKEN based session lookup, this causes a failure if the client retries the request (since the TOKEN was consumed in the request prior to the retry).
601414 : Combined use of session and table irule commands can result in intermittent session lookup failures
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
[session lookup] commands do not return the expected result.
Conditions:
An iRule which combines use of [table] and [session lookup] commands.
Impact:
Intermittent session functionality.
Workaround:
If possible, use table commands in lieu of session commands.
601378 : 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
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
These errors can be observed in '/var/log/asm':
-------------------------
The caller:[F5::ASMConfig::Entity::Charset::get_policy_encoding_type] did not pass in a value for 'encoding_name' to retrieve the 'encoding_type' for -- aborting.
ASM subsystem error (asm_config_server.pl,): ASM Config server died unexpectedly
ASM subsystem error: (asm_start,F5::NwdUtils::Nwd::log_failure): Watchdog detected failure for process. Process name: pabnagd, Failure: Insufficient number of threads.
ASM subsystem error: (asm_start,F5::NwdUtils::Nwd::log_failure): Watchdog detected failure for process. Process name: asm_config_server.pl, Failure: Insufficient number of threads.
-------------------------
Conditions:
ASM provisioned.
Create security policy with "Auto accept" language.
Impact:
ASM daemons restart, numerous errors in asm log.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Creating an ASM security policy with "Auto accept" language no longer leads to numerous errors in asm log and restarts of 'pabnagd' and 'asm_config_server' daemons
601255 : RTSP response to SETUP request has incorrect client_port attribute
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
- Clientside data is sent to UDP port 0
- RTSP response to SETUP request contains incorrect 'client_port' attribute (0)
Conditions:
- Virtual with RTSP profile.
- 200/OK is received from server in response to the initial SETUP request
- SETUP request was the initial message received on a new connection
Impact:
Unicast media may forwarded to incorrect UDP port (0).
Fix:
Initialize 'client_port' attribute to value received from server when re-writing response to client.
601180 : Link Controller base license does not allow DNS namespace iRule commands.★
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The Link Controller base license was improperly preventing DNS namespace iRule commands.
Conditions:
A Link Controller license without an add-on that allowed Layer 7 iRule commands.
Impact:
An administrator would not be able add DNS namespace commands to an iRule or upgrade from a pre-11.5 configuration where the commands were working to 11.5.4 through 12.1.1.
Workaround:
To address the inability to upgrade, removal of DNS namespace commands from the configuration prior to upgrade will allow the upgrade to proceed. The commands will then be able to be re-added after a fixed version is installed.
Fix:
DNS namespace iRule commands are now properly accepted with a Link Controller base license.
601178 : HTTP cookie persistence 'preferred' encryption
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When encryption is 'preferred' in the http cookie persistence profile, when the client presents a plain-text route domain formatted cookie the BIG-IP will ignore the cookie and re-load balance the connection.
Conditions:
This occurs when route-domain-compatible cookies are sent in plaintext.
Impact:
Cookie does not get accepted by the persistence profile and flow does not persist.
601168 : Incorrect virtual server CPU utilization may be observed.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The virtual_server_cpu_stat table counters are always at zero.
Conditions:
ASM license is in effect.
Impact:
Wrong CPU utilization per virtual server.
Workaround:
No workaround.
Fix:
An issue in computing CPU averages for virtual server has been resolved.
601083 : FPS Globally Forbidden Words lists freeze in IE 11
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
When attempting to move more than 1 item in Globally Forbidden Words in Internet Explorer 11 browser, the lists freeze.
Conditions:
FPS Provisioned
Add 2 or words in "Search for malicious words in the HTML or JavaScript code"
Impact:
FPS GUI freezes
Workaround:
Add 1 item each time and save.
Use tmsh.
Fix:
Internet Explorer 11 will not freeze if moving more than one item at a time.
601059 : libxml2 vulnerability CVE-2016-1840
Vulnerability Solution Article: K14614344
601035-1 : TCP-Analytics can fail to collect all the activity
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
When the traffic reaching BIG-IP comes from very large number of different client-ips and subnets, the TCP-Analytics table can get full which leads to ignoring the activity that follows, until next snapshot of data.
Conditions:
TCP-Analytics profile is attached to a virtual server, incoming traffic from large amounts of client-ips and subnets (exact number to cause full table depends on machine type and provisioned modules).
Impact:
TCP Analytics is showing only some of the activity, not all of it.
There is also another impact described in bug: 601056,which is frequent errors in log.
Workaround:
Disable TCP-Analytics.
Fix:
Aggregation method of TCP Analytics was fixed, we are no longer reaching full table situation, no matter the distribution of the client-ips.
600982 : TMM crashes at ssl_cache_sid() with "prf->cache.sid == 0"
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When SSL is configured, the TMM might rarely crash, logging the following error in /var/log/ltm: notice panic: ../modules/hudfilter/ssl/ssl_session.c:538: Assertion "cached" failed.
Conditions:
This is a very rare crash related to SSL being configured.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
When SSL is configured, the TMM no longer intermittently crashes with the message: Assertion "cached" failed.
600970 : IPsec racoon daemon 100% cpu busy
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
racoon daemon runs at 100% according to top and will not start or handle any IPsec tunnels. No logs, no ISAKMP initiation and so on. racoonctl will hang when executed.
Conditions:
racoon daemon in a 100% CPU busy loop
Impact:
IPsec tunnels cannot not be established or maintained.
Workaround:
bigstart restart racoon. bigstart restart tmispecd. One cannot use bigstart to restart racoon on version 12 software.
Fix:
In extremely rare cases, the racoon daemon will stop working, and report 100% CPU usage.
600944 : tmsh does not reset route domain to 0 after cd /Common and loading bash
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
In tmsh, you are in a partition with a custom route domain. When you run 'cd /Common' and run bash then run 'ip route', the routing table from the partition is displayed, not /Common
Conditions:
Attempting to see the route table from the /Common partition after leaving another parition
Impact:
You cannot get /Common's route table back without quitting and restarting tmsh.
Workaround:
Quit tmsh and restart.
600894 : In certain situations, the MCPD process can leak memory
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In certain situations, the MCPD process can leak memory. This has been observed, for example, while updating large external data-group file objects. Each time an external data-group file is updated, MCPD's memory utilization grows a little bit. Once enough iterations have occurred, the system may no longer be able to update the external data-group file, but instead return the following error message:
err mcpd[xxxx]: 01070711:3: Caught runtime exception, std::bad_alloc.
Conditions:
So far, this issue has only been observed while updating a large external data-group file object.
Impact:
The system may no longer be able to update the external data-group file object. It is also possible for MCPD to crash, or be killed by the Linux OOM killer, as a result of the memory leak.
600859-1 : Module not licensed after upgrade from 11.6.0 to 12.1.0 HF1 EHF.★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
After upgrading 11.6.0 Hourly instances to 12.1.0 EHF Hourly instances with Instance Registration support, instance license becomes invalid and BIG-IP is unable to acquire a new hourly license.
Conditions:
Upgrading 11.6.0, or earlier Hourly Licensing instance to 12.1.0 HF1 EHF.
Impact:
License is invalidated and instance becomes unusable.
Workaround:
- Run "/usr/libexec/autoLicense -l" from command-line.
Fix:
Module licenses correctly after upgrade from 11.6.0 to 12.1.0 HF2 or later.
600827 : Stuck nitrox crypto queue can erroneously be reported
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases, a stuck crypto queue can be erroneously detected on Nitrox systems (Nitrox PX and Nitrox 3). When the tmm/crypto stats are examined, they show no queued requests. The message "Hardware Error(Co-Processor): n3-crypto0 request queue stuck" will appear in the ltm log file.
Conditions:
Nitrox based system performing SSL under heavy load.
Impact:
Device errors reported in logs and crypto HA action is taken, possibly resulting in failing over.
Fix:
The Nitrox crypto driver uses a proper timeout value for crypto requests.
600811 : CATEGORY::lookup command change in behaviour★
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Starting in v12.1.1, the CATEGORY::lookup iRule command will no longer accept an HTTP URI in its argument to the command if the BIG-IP system has APM+URL Filtering provisioned or just URL Filtering provisioned along for SSL Bypass decisions.
Only a valid hostname can be used and then have it's category returned.
In versions prior to v12.1.1, the following iRule command would be valid:
when HTTP_REQUEST {
set this_uri http://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]
set reply [CATEGORY::lookup $this_uri]
log local0. "Category lookup for $this_uri returns $reply"
}
Starting in v12.1.1, the previous example you need to remove the HTTP::uri statement. If an HTTP::uri is provided to the command, an error will be returned
Jun 27 16:43:41 bigip4000-a41-1mgmt err tmm2[12601]: 01220001:3: TCL error: /Common/_1_categ_test <HTTP_REQUEST> - Categorization engine returned an error. invoked from within "CATEGORY::lookup $this_uri"
Started in v12.1.1, the example should be modified to pass in the HTTP::host only:
when HTTP_REQUEST {
set this_uri http://[HTTP::host]
set reply [CATEGORY::lookup $this_uri]
log local0. "Category lookup for $this_uri returns $reply"
}
If APM and SWG are licensed and provisioned, the CATEGORY::lookup iRule command will accept an HTTP URI as a part of the argument to the command.
Conditions:
- BIG-IP licensed and provisioned for:
- APM + URL Filtering
- URL Filtering (used for SSL Bypass decisions in SSL Air-Gap deployments)
- An iRule which supplies a URI path to the CATEGORY::lookup iRule command
Impact:
Upgrading to v12.1.1 from previous versions that use the CATEGORY::lookup iRule command and use an HTTP::uri or pass in a plain text string with contains anything other than an HTTP hostname will see an error returned from the command. This can cause errors in existing deployments.
Workaround:
The required mitigation is to update the iRule to only pass an HTTP hostname to the CATEGORY::lookup iRule command
600662 : NAT64 vulnerability CVE-2016-5745
Vulnerability Solution Article: K64743453
600634 : Schedule-reports can break the upgrade process★
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
A scheduled report (of predefined type) that is created via GUI can cause validation error on upgrade and thus might cause the upgrade process to fail. You may see this error in /var/log/ltm:
Syntax Error:(/config/bigip.conf at line: 86) "predefined-report-name" may not be specified with "multi-leveled-report.time-diff"
Conditions:
Creating predefined-scheduled-report from GUI
Impact:
Upgrade process can fail
Workaround:
If the config load fails, you can get the configuration to load by manually removing the scheduled report(s).
Impact of mitigation: this will remove scheduled reports from the configuration.
Edit bigip.conf, and look for analytics objects that have the scheduled-report in the declaration:
analytics application-security scheduled-report /Common/... {
Remove the object and the configuration will load.
Fix:
Improving validation mechanism to not allow creating one type (predefined vs multi-leveled) of scheduled-report with fields of the other one set to it.
Fixing GUI to not set fields of multi-leveled scheduled-report when creating a predefined-scheduled-report.
600614 : External crypto offload fails when SSL connection is renegotiated
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If and external crypto offload client is configured with an SSL profile and renegotiation is enabled for the SSL profile, the crypto client connection will fail when the SSL connection is renegotiated.
Conditions:
External crypto offload client configured with an SSL profile with renegotiation enabled.
Impact:
Crypto client connection to the crypto server will fail.
Workaround:
Disable renegotiation on the SSL profile.
Fix:
The crypto client connection to the crypto server will no longer fail when the SSL connection is renegotiated.
600593 : Use of HTTP Explicit Proxy and OneConnect can lead to an issue with CONNECT HTTP requests
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
After a CONNECT request is sent to the BIG-IP system and processed, if the client disconnects before a response is received from the server, the FIN is not propagated to the server-side and that connection remains open. If a client sends another CONNECT request to the same destination, the previous server-side flow is reused for the new request. Inspection of packet captures reveals that the BIG-IP system does not process the new CONNECT request as such, but instead forwards it to the server using the old server-side flow. This behaviour is incorrect. The CONNECT method should disable connection reuse, and the BIG-IP should close the server-side flow if the client disconnects first.
Conditions:
Use of HTTP Explicit Proxy and OneConnect together. CONNECT requests must arrive to the virtual server. The client must disconnect before the server responds.
Impact:
Some connections may fail. Depending on what data is sent to the server over an unintended connection, unpredictable results may be experienced.
Workaround:
You can apply the following iRule to the HTTP Explicit Proxy virtual server to mitigate the issue:
when HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::method] equals "CONNECT" } {
ONECONNECT::reuse disable
}
else {
ONECONNECT::reuse enable
}
}
600570 : VE License may enforce improper TMM count
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
If a BIG-IP VE license enforces a number of TMM instances less than the system would otherwise run, and that license limit is not a power of two (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16), the BIG-IP system will incorrectly start with a non-power of two number of TMMs.
Conditions:
Certain license combinations can result in the BIG-IP VE system starting with a non power of two number of TMMs.
Impact:
This results in traffic disruption and connection failures where traffic leaves one TMM, but returns and is not processed by a different TMM.
Workaround:
Set the "provision.tmmcount" DB key to the next lower power of two (1, 2, 4, 8, 16) from the count listed in the license.
600558 : Errors logged after deleting user in GUI
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
After deleting a user in the BIG-IP GUI (under Access Policy :: Local User DB : Manage Users), the following symptoms may be observed:
1. After approximately 10 minutes, an error similar to the following appears in the LTM log (/var/log/ltm):
mcpd[25939]: 01070418:5: connection 0x5dde19c8 (user admin) was closed with active requests
This message may also appear in /var/log/webui.log and /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out.
2. After clicking Refresh, the GUI may not show the correct web page.
Conditions:
This has been reported most frequently when deleting local users (Access Policy :: Local User DB : Manage Users), but has been encountered in other ways. The issue might require deleting a user and then remaining on the Manage Users page until an internal timeout of approximately 10 minutes passes.
Impact:
Error messages logged.
GUI may not show the correct web page.
Workaround:
Use the CLI (tmsh) to delete local users.
Fix:
Errors are no longer logged after deleting user in GUI.
600431 : DIAMETER::avp data get "id" ip4|ip6 errors on valid AVP
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
TCL error in /var/log/ltm that looks like 'error Buffer error invoked from within "DIAMETER::avp data get 257 ip4 index 0"'
Conditions:
iRule that extracts ip address from a diameter avp.
Impact:
The iRule ends with an error.
Workaround:
Instead of
set data [DIAMETER::avp data get 257 ip4]
use an iRule such as
if { [DIAMETER::avp count 257] > 0 } {
set data [DIAMETER::avp data get 257]
binary scan $data S family
switch $family {
1 {
# ipv4 should contains 4 bytes
set ip [IP::addr parse -ipv4 $data 2]
log local0. "ip = $ip"
}
2 {
# ipv6 should contains 16 bytes
set ip [IP::addr parse -ipv6 $data 2]
log local0. "ip = $ip"
}
default {
log local0.alert "address family $family is not supported"
}
}
}
Fix:
DIAMETER::avp data get "id" ip4|ip6 now correctly returns an ip address on valid ip address AVPs.
600385 : BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS monitors are allowed to be configured with interval value larger than timeout
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When configuring BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP DNS monitors, administrators can set the interval value be larger than the timeout value.
Conditions:
Setting interval value to be larger than the timeout value.
Impact:
The misconfigured monitor setting might result in unexpected monitor behavior.
Workaround:
Set the interval value lower than the timeout value.
Fix:
Monitors are no longer allowed to set the interval value be larger than the timeout. This is correct behavior.
Behavior Change:
Monitors are no longer allowed to set the interval value be larger than the timeout. This is correct behavior.
600357 : bd crash when asm policy is removed from virtual during specific configuration change
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
BD restarts and produces a core file
Conditions:
A configuration change which involves headers configuration or a policy re-configuration and at the same time, while this update is taking place the ASM policy is removed from the virtual.
This is more likely to happen in scripted tests than in the field.
Impact:
Traffic gets dropped while the ASM gets restarted.
Workaround:
Don't change ASM configuration at the same time as changing the virtual server configuration.
Fix:
System will still restart but will not produce a core file when this happens.
600232-1 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2177
Vulnerability Solution Article: K23873366
600198-1 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2178
Vulnerability Solution Article: K53084033
600174 : Wildcard "*" redirection domain cannot be deleted if list is scrollable
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Wildcard "*" redirection domain cannot be deleted if list is scrollable
Conditions:
Add redirection domains until list becomes scrollable (at least 4 or 5)
Impact:
first redirection domain in the list cannot be deleted
Workaround:
first delete redirection domains (not first one) to make list not scrollable, then re-add again
Fix:
Any redirection domain can be removed from the list
600119 : DNS name resolution for servers outside of Network Access Name Split scope can be slow in some conditions
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When connected to the vpn and wifi adapter is enabled (not connected to any wlan) access to websites outside the vpn is very slow.
Access is fine when wifi interface is disabled.
Conditions:
- number of DNS servers configured for active network adapters matches the number of DNS servers configured in Network Access resource
Impact:
User experience while navigating servers outside of VPN scope is impacted by increased connection time
Workaround:
Disable unused adapters or change the number of configured DNS servers
Fix:
DNS requests for names outside the VPN scope sent to VPN DNS server are redirected to DNS servers from NIC using Round Robin algorithm
600069 : Portal Access: Requests handled incorrectly
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases Portal Access requests do not return the intended resource.
Conditions:
Portal Access configured
Impact:
In some cases Portal Access requests do not return the intended resource.
Fix:
Improve Portal Access request processing
600052 : GUI displaying "Internal Server Error" page when there many (~3k) certs/keys in the system
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Cannot access SSL certs/keys using the GUI. GUI displays "Internal Server Error" page.
Conditions:
Having large (~3k) number of SSL certs/keys in the system.
Impact:
Cannot use the GUI to view/edit the SSL certs/keys.
Workaround:
User tmsh to access SSL certs/keys.
Fix:
Can now access SSL certs/keys using the GUI
600024 : Managed Endpoint Notification and Managed Endpoint Status agents are only available for type "All" profiles
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Managed Endpoint Notification and Managed Endpoint Status agents are not available for Access Profiles that are using type "ssl-vpn". They are only visible if the profile is of type "All"
Conditions:
Create Access Profile with type: "SSL-VPN"
Impact:
Managed Endpoint Notification and Managed Endpoint Status agents are not available in access policy
Workaround:
Create Access Profile with "All" type
599858 : ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2015-8898
Vulnerability Solution Article: K68785753
599839 : Add new keyords to SIP::persist command to specify how Persistence table is updated
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
SIP::persist command keywords were not present prior to 12.1.2
Conditions:
Using the SIP::persist command in an iRule
Impact:
Limited control via SIP::persist
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
The following new keywords were introduced with SIP::persist command that improve some key entry issues.
-reset: remove any persistence entry associated with the key stored with the message.
-use: normal persistence and routing operation.
-replace: replace any persistence existing with the result of the routing operation used on this message.
-bypass: route the message ignoring any persistence entry, if no entry exists, add a new entry based on the result of this message
-ignore: route the message ignoring any persistence entry. Do not add or update the persistence entry.
Behavior Change:
The following new keywords were introduced with SIP::persist command that improve some key entry issues.
-reset: remove any persistence entry associated with the key stored with the message.
-use: normal persistence and routing operation.
-replace: replace any persistence existing with the result of the routing operation used on this message.
-bypass: route the message ignoring any persistence entry, if no entry exists, add a new entry based on the result of this message
-ignore: route the message ignoring any persistence entry. Do not add or update the persistence entry.
599816 : Packet redirections occur when using VLAN groups with members that have different cmp-hash settings.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Packets arriving on members of the VLAN group are CMP redirected. Redirections may be tracked with the tmm/flow_redir_stats table.
Conditions:
VLANs in the VLAN group must have different cmp-hash settings. For example, one VLAN may configure src-ip and another dst-ip.
Impact:
Throughput drops because of the redirections. However, because this is an error in the software disaggregator, components and features which depend on correct disaggregation may fail. Some features of PEM may fail.
Fix:
Packets are correctly disaggregated without redirections.
599769-2 : TMM may crash when managing APM clients.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When managing APM clients it is possible to encounter a rare tmm crash.
Conditions:
APM enabled and actively managing clients.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
There is no longer a rarely encountered TMM crash when managing APM clients.
599720 : TMM may crash in bigtcp due to null pointer dereference
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crashed in bigtcp_queue_pkt() due to null pointer dereference of clientside flow.
Conditions:
This only occurs for serverside flow whose peer no longer exists.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
No workaround.
Fix:
A problem of null pointer dereferece in bigtcp has been fixed.
599655 : When ramcache is configured with CPM, the ASM blocking page will get cached
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
ASM blocking page is cached
Conditions:
ramcache is configured using CPM
Impact:
The blocking page doesn't get reported by ASM and is missed from statistics. It can also cause false positives on traffic that shouldn't be blocking.
Workaround:
Add the following irule to the virtual:
when ASM_REQUEST_BLOCKING
{
CACHE::disable;
}
599582 : BD keep-alive self crashes due to lack of IO or CPU resources
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
The following message in the bd.log:
"internal_keep_alive: BD shrinking...,going down - BD will be right back."
Before this message, in the bd.log, the UMU prints are not arriving two on the same second.
Conditions:
There is a high CPU consumption on the system or lack of IO resource
Impact:
The bd restarts with a core file, traffic disrupted while bd restarts.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Fixed a crash in bd.
599543 : Cannot update (overwrite) PKCS#12 SSL cert & key while referenced in SSL profile
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When PKCS#12 cert and key are in use by SSL profiles, importing key/cert fails with the below error message:
Import Failed: Exception caught in Management::urn:iControl:Management/KeyCertificate::pkcs12_import_from_file_v2()
0107160f:3: Profile /Common/z-cssl's SSL forward proxy CA key and certificate do not match
Conditions:
1. When the cert and key are in the PKCS#12 format.
2. When the cert and key are in use by SSL profiles.
Impact:
When PKCS#12 cert and key are in use by SSL profiles, they can not be directly updated (overwritten) using key/cert import.
Workaround:
Use tmsh to install the PKCS#12 key. For example, suppose the key/cert to be replaced is called orig.key and orig.crt, it can be overwritten using the below command:
tmsh install sys crypto pkcs12 orig from-local-file /shared/eee.pfx
599536 : IPsec peer with wildcard selector brings up wrong phase2 SAs
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
If a remote IPsec peer sends a wildcard (0.0.0.0/0 <-> 0.0.0.0/0) traffic-selector in phase2, the BIG-IP system will find a match against a non-wildcard selector and use that policy to complete phase2 negotiation.
You may encounter this problem if you have one or more remote peers attempting to negotiate phase2 with wildcard traffic-selectors. An IPsec tunnel may start but fail to pass data and at the same time another IPsec tunnel may stop working.
Conditions:
The remote IPsec peer sends a wildcard (0.0.0.0/0 <-> 0.0.0.0/0) traffic-selector in phase2. Phase1 must be established first.
Impact:
A tunnel will start, but data communication (over ESP or AH) will fail.
Other tunnels may be subject to an accidental DOS when a peer establishes phase1 but uses wildcard traffic-selectors in phase2. A traffic-selector matched by wildcard might be bound to a tunnel already in use, which is then taken offline by the new Security Associations.
Fix:
Ensure that phase2 negotiation using a wildcard (0.0.0.0/0 <-> 0.0.0.0/0) traffic-selector does not establish a Security Association with an ipsec-policy associated with a non-wildcard traffic-selector.
Behavior Change:
Previously, a wildcard selector was able to match a non-wildcard selector, and thus engage the wrong (IPsec) tunnel to attempt negotiation, usually failing.
In effect, a wildcard selector was able to bind to the wrong peer; but after this change only the right peer should bind. This cleans up behavior of selector as identity key, and prevents subjecting random wrong peers from noise.
599526 : SWG redirect omits the port
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When using SWG transparent proxy with captive portal disabled, the final redirect omits the port that was specified in the original request
Conditions:
SWG transparent proxy with captive portal disabled; and initial request coming on non 80 or 443 ports.
Impact:
SWG redirects to the incorrect port.
Workaround:
Enable captive portal if possible.
Fix:
When using SWG transparent proxy with captive portal disabled, the final redirect now includes the port that was specified in the original request.
599521-1 : Persistence entries not added if message is routed via an iRule
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
MRF SIP route table implementation does not add a persistence entry if the message was routed via an iRule.
Conditions:
If the message is routed via an iRule, a SIP persistence entry will not be created.
Impact:
Since MRF SIP persistence may be bidirectional, not having the persistence entry will keep message flowing in the opposite direction from being automatically routed via persistence.
Workaround:
An iRule could be used to route messages directed towards the original client.
Fix:
MRF SIP will add a persistence entry for message routed via an iRule.
599515 : TCP Keep Alive Interval Indefinite mapped to the 0 value instead of 4294967295.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Indefinite TCP Keep Alive Interval is mapped to 4294967295.
Conditions:
Selecting Indefinite on the TCP Keep Alive Interval field and listing it on tmsh.
Impact:
Indefinite is set to 4294967295 instead of 0.
Workaround:
Set the TCP Keep Alive Interval field using tmsh.
Fix:
The TCP Keep Alive Interval Indefinite value is now mapped to the 0 value instead of 4294967295. This is correct.
599424 : iApps LX fails to sync★
Component: iApp Technology
Symptoms:
In a device group, iApps LX applications fail to sync to the other devices. In restjavad.0.log you notice this log entry, approximately once per hour:
[8100/tm/shared/bigip-failover-state BigipFailoverStateWorker] Failed to discover [address]: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Authentication Failure to host [address]. Please check the credentials provided.
Conditions:
This occurs after upgrading devices in a device group from 12.1.1 to a version higher than 12.1.1, such as 12.1.1 HF1. It can also occur on UCS restore.
Impact:
If you do not have iApps LX configured, there should be no impact other than the warning in restjavad.0.log which you can safely ignore. If you have iApps LX configured and the iApp is not syncing, then this will impact traffic if a failover event occurs.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
iApps LX now sync correctly.
599285-1 : PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2016-5094 and CVE-2016-5095
Vulnerability Solution Article: K51390683
599220 : AD/LDAP groupmapping have no webtop-section assign
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Unlike full resource assign AD/LDAP groupmapping have no webtop-section assign
Conditions:
Always
Impact:
Unable to assign the resources to the webtop. It is still possible to configure in VPE using two agents.
Workaround:
1. Use full resource assign after group mapping
2. Configure sections in tmsh - agent is the same as in full resource assign
Fix:
Webtop Sections are added to Groupmapping UI
599168 : BIG-IP virtual server with HTTP Explicit Proxy and/or SOCKS vulnerability CVE-2016-5700
Vulnerability Solution Article: K35520031
599135 : B2250 blades may suffer from high TMM CPU utilisation with tcpdump
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
B2250 blades may suffer from continuous TMM CPU utilization when tcpdump has been in use.
Conditions:
Run tcpdump on a B2250 platform
Impact:
Increment in TMM CPU utilization with every run of tcpdump.
Workaround:
Restart TMM, avoid the use of tcpdump.
Fix:
B2250 blades no longer suffer from high TMM CPU utilisation with tcpdump
599054 : LTM policies may incorrectly use those of another virtual server
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
LTM policies may use policies configured on another virtual server.
Conditions:
- A configurations with several virtual servers and several configured ltm policies attached to those virtual servers.
- Configuration load: manually using the command tmsh load sys conf, or automatically by an upgrade or full config-sync.
Impact:
LTM policies get incrementally added to virtual servers as the policies are compiled, causing unexpected traffic handling decisions based on other policies.
Workaround:
Do not run tmsh load sys conf if you have policies configured. After an upgrade or full config-sync issuing a bigstart restart command or restarting the device will fix this condition.
Fix:
LTM policies no longer incorrectly use those of another virtual server
599033 : Traffic directed to incorrect instance after network partition is resolved
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
After a network partition is resolved, the BIG-IP high availability subsystem may select a different device to handle traffic than the external network.
Conditions:
If the external network does not respond to GARP (Gratuitous ARP) messages to direct IP traffic to the correct device after an Active/Active condition is resolved, then it may continue to send traffic to a device that is now in Standby mode.
Impact:
Traffic will be interrupted since the upstream network is sending traffic to a device that won't process it.
Workaround:
The administrator might be able to manually run a script or command to redirect traffic to the correct device that is hosting the virtual service.
Fix:
When a network partition is resolved, and an Active/Active high availability pair chooses a single Active node, it now invokes a script that can be used to automatically notify the external network infrastructure of the new location for the virtual service. This new script is located in /config/failover/tgrefresh, and is invoked in addition to the transmission of GARP messages.
598983 : BIG-IP virtual server with HTTP Explicit Proxy and/or SOCKS vulnerability CVE-2016-5700
Vulnerability Solution Article: K35520031
598981 : APM ACL does not get enforced all the time under certain conditions
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
APM ACL does not get enforced all the time under certain conditions
Conditions:
The following conditions individually increase the chances for this problem to occur:
1. The device is very busy. (Construction of ACL windows is prolonged.)
2. Concentration of connections into one TMM. (e.g., VPN feature.)
3. Small number of TMMs (e.g., BIG-IP low-end platform, Virtual Edition (VE) configurations.)
4. Application starts with a high number of concurrent connections.
Impact:
ACL is not applied for subsequent connections for that TMM. This issue does not consistently reproduce.
Workaround:
Mitigation:
Administrator can kill the affected session, which forces the user to re-login, and ultimately restarts the ACL construction process.
Fix:
Switching context when applying ACL is properly processed, and no longer cause ACL to be not enforced.
598917 : TMSH and GUI might display a different common name from that is used by the system and displayed in the past.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When the certificate contains multiple common names in its subject, TMSH/GUI might display a different one from that is used by the system. This behavior is also inconsistent with it in the past.
Conditions:
When the certificate contains multiple common names in its subject.
Impact:
When the server name (SNI) is not configured in a clientSSL profile, the system will use the common name of its certificate as its server name, and use it to match/lookup clientSSL profiles when the SSL client specifies SNI in the clienthello. So when the clientSSL profile is using a certificate with multiple common names in the subject, the system might display a different common name from the one that is used to match/lookup clientSSL profiles whose server name is not configured.
Fix:
When multiple common names are listed in a certificate, the last CN will be displayed and used.
598874 : GTM Resolver sends FIN after SYN retransmission timeout
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If a DNS server is not responding to TCP SYN, GTM Resolver sends a FIN after a retransmission timeout (RTO) of the SYN.
Conditions:
GTM Resolver tries to open a TCP connection to a server that does not respond.
Impact:
Firewalls may log the FIN as a possible attack.
Fix:
Do not send anything in response to a SYN retransmission timeout.
598860 : IP::addr iRule with an IPv6 address and netmask fails to return an IPv4 address
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The IP::addr iRule can be used to translate an IPv6 address containing an IPv4 address, but instead it converts it into an IPv4 compatible IPv6 address.
Example:
ltm rule test_bug {
when CLIENT_DATA {
log local0. "[IP::addr 2A01:CB09:8000:46F5::A38:1 mask ::ffff:ffff]"
}
Expected result:
Rule /Common/test_bug <CLIENT_DATA>: 10.56.0.1
Actual result:
Rule /Common/test_bug <CLIENT_DATA>: ::10.56.0.1
Conditions:
using IP::addr to convert an IPv6 to an IPv4 address
Impact:
Address is converted into an IPv4-compatible IPv6 address.
598854-4 : sipdb tool incorrectly displays persistence records without a pool name
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
MRF SIP persistence records added for a forwarding route (a peer object without a pool), will not be displayed properly by sipdb
Conditions:
If a persistence record is added for a route that does not contain a pool, this persistence entry will not be displayed correctly.
Impact:
The persistence entry is correctly stored in the persistence table and will operate correctly. Due to the bug in the sipdb tool, this entry will not be viewable for debugging purposes.
Fix:
The fix corrects the sipdb tool so that entries which do not have a pool name will display correctly.
598700-1 : MRF SIP Bidirectional Persistence does not work with multiple virtual servers
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
Messages received by different virtual servers (sharing the same router) are not able to be properly routed using the call-id persistence.
Conditions:
A router with multiple virtual servers bridging between networks are not able to use the same call-id persistence entry for routing messages. Messages trying to use a persistence entry created by a different virtual server may be routed to the wrong device.
Impact:
Messages received on another virtual server trying to use the persistence entry will be routed to the wrong device.
Fix:
Fix corrects problems identifying which end of the bi-directional persistence the message has arrived on so that it can be forwarded to the proper device.
598697-2 : vCMP guests may fail after vCMP host system is upgraded to BIG-IP v12.1.x when 'qemu' user isn't created★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
After installing v12.1.0 on a vCMP host system the guests don't start anymore and remain in "failed" state.
Errors similar to these are logged in the ltm log file:
Jun 10 08:17:22 slot1/VIP4480-R68-S26 crit vcmpd[14354]: 01510003:2: User "qemu" doesn't exist
<..>
Jun 10 08:17:22 slot1/VIP4480-R68-S26 err vcmpd[14354]: 01510004:3: Guest (test-guest): Failure - Error starting VM.
Jun 10 08:17:22 slot1/VIP4480-R68-S26 info vcmpd[14354]: 01510007:6: Guest (test-guest): VS_STARTING->VS_FAILED
Conditions:
Upgrade vCMP host to v12.1.0 or higher
vCMP host system was originally installed with v11.6.0 or older builds.
Impact:
After installing v12.1.0 on a vCMP host system the guest don't start anymore and remain in "failed" state.
Workaround:
Workaround is to run the following command:
useradd -r -u 107 -g qemu -G kvm -d / -s /sbin/nologin -c "qemu user" qemu
then:
bigstart restart vcmpd
598498 : Cannot remove Self IP when an unrelated static ARP entry exists.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Cannot remove a self-IP when an unrelated static ARP entry exists. The system produces an error similar to the following: err mcpd[6743]: 01071907:3: Cannot delete IP <addr> because it would leave a static neighbor (ARP/NDP) entry unreachable.
Conditions:
Static arp entry exists, and there are no Self IP addresses on the same subnet as the static ARP entry. When in this condition, none of the Self IP addresses can be deleted.
Impact:
Must delete static ARP entries in order to delete Self IP addresses.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
In this release, you can delete Self IP addresses if unrelated static ARP entries exist.
598443 : Temporary files from TMSH not being cleaned up intermittently.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
/var/tmp/tmsh and /var/system/tmp/tmsh can have left over unused directories if there was an abrupt termination wherein TMSH does not get a chance to clean up remaining directories.
Conditions:
This can occur if a running task creates a TMSH tmp file, then gets killed before it finishes its clean-up.
Impact:
This can cause the directories /var/tmp/tmsh and /var/system/tmp/tmsh to fill up and cause out of memory exceptions.
Workaround:
Manually delete all unused files in /var/tmp/tmsh and /var/system/tmp/tmsh.
Fix:
TMSH now removes all temporary files as expected.
598419 : Edge client requests include ID
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Edge client requests sometimes include a session ID in the URI.
Conditions:
Edge client is used to establish a VPN connection through a TLS-terminating proxy.
Impact:
Possible session ID disclosure to trusted intermediaries.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Session ID is not included in URI. This is correct behavior.
598294 : BIG-IP ASM Proactive Bot Defense vulnerability CVE-2016-7472
Vulnerability Solution Article: K17119920
598211 : Citrix Android Receiver 3.9 does not work through APM in StoreFront integration mode.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
During the logon to Citrix StoreFront through an APM virtual server, after the login page, the BIG-IP system sends the client the following error: Error 404 file or directory not found.
Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
- Citrix Android receiver 3.9.
- APM is in integration mode with Citrix StoreFront.
- Storefront unified experience mode is enabled.
Impact:
Cannot access Citrix StoreFront unified UI through Android Receiver 3.9.
Workaround:
For StoreFront integration mode, there is an iRule that is created by the iApp that redirects the root page to the store's URI. The workaround is to add an additional redirect for the receiver_uri ending with receiver.html. The iRule below contains this workaround.
It is also recommended to delete and recreate the existing store account.
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [regexp -nocase {/citrix/(.+)/receiver\.html} [HTTP::path] dummy store_name] } {
log -noname accesscontrol.local1.debug "01490000:7: setting http path to /Citrix/$store_name/"
HTTP::path "/Citrix/$store_name/"
}
}
Fix:
Citrix Android Receiver 3.9 now works through APM in StoreFront integration mode.
598204 : In syncookie mode, TCP profile MSS is not honored when the BIG-IP system sends back the SYN-ACK.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
In syncookie mode, TCP profile MSS is not honored when the BIG-IP system sends back the SYN-ACK.
Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
-- TCP profile.
-- syncookie mode.
Impact:
A TCP virtual server might use bigger MSS in syncookie mode and not honor the MSS specified in the profile. Some configurations require a smaller MSS for certain virtual servers, rather than using the VLAN's MTU to calculate the MSS.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
In syncookie mode, the system now honors the MSS value set in the TCP profile when the BIG-IP system sends back the SYN-ACK.
Behavior Change:
In syncookie mode, the system now honors the MSS value set in the TCP profile when the BIG-IP system sends back the SYN-ACK.
598200 : Migrating iControl SOAP interface and logic for OCSP related configuration
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
1. The interface LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters has been migrated to the Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP interface.
For example, to create a new OCSP object:
Old iControl API: proxy.LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters.create()
New iControl API: proxy.Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP.create()
Note that although the old iControl API calls are being deprecated, you can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new API calls in the system. For example if you create an OCSP object using the old API proxy.LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters.create(), the system will perform as if the user is using proxy.Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP.create().
While the interface LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters is migrated to Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP, most of the origianal API calls are preserved except set_trusted_certificate_authority, get_trusted_certificate_authority, set_use_proxy_server_state, and get_use_proxy_server_state. They are no longer available in the new interface Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP.
use_proxy_server was used to specify whether the OCSP object to use proxy_server or dns_resolver. However starting from 13.0.0, only one of them (proxy_server and dns_resolver) is allowed to be configured to an OCSP object and therefore the use_proxy_server flag is no longer needed.
trusted_certificate_authority is meant for the issuer CA certificate for both of the OCSP server and the certificate to be monitored. Starting from 13.0.0 the configuration of trusted_certificate_authority is replaced by the issuer certificate configuration for the certificate to be monitored.
Example:
To assign the issuer certificate for the certificate to be monitored, use
Management.KeyCertificate.set_issuer_certificate()
2. OCSP monitoring for certificate
Starting from 13.0.0, the OCSP monitoring is directly associated with SSL certificate instead of clientSSL profile. In other words, if a certificate is associated with an OCSP object and enable the OCSP monitoring, then the system will keep connecting to the OCSP server based on the OCSP configuration, and update the certificate status periodically, regardless the configuration or activities of any clientSSL profile.
Example:
To associate a certificate with an OCSP object, use
Management.KeyCertificate.add_certificate_validator()
Example:
To enable OCSP monitoring for the certificate, use
Management.KeyCertificate.set_certificate_status_validation_options()
Example:
To check the status for the certificate and its OCSP connection, use
Management.KeyCertificate.get_certificate_validation_status()
3. Enable OCSP stapling for clientSSL profile
If any of the SSL certificates used by the clientSSL profile has OCSP monitoring enabled, then the clientSSL profile can enable the ocsp-stapling option to allow the BIG-IP to staple the OCSP response for the certificate status with the certificate to the SSL client during SSL handshake.
Example:
To enable OCSP stapling for the clientSSL profile, use
LocalLB.ProfileClientSSL.set_ocsp_stapling_state()
Old iControl method: add OCSP object to the clientSSL profile
LocalLB.ProfileClientSSL.set_certificate_key_chain_ocsp_stapling_parameters()
Note that although the old iControl calls are being deprecated, you can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new API calls in the system. In other words if the user configure an OCSP object to a clientSSL profile, the system will perform the above Step 2 and 3, that is, assigning the OCSP object to the certificate (instead of the clientSSL profile), enabling OCSP monitoring for the certificate, and then enabling OCSP stapling for the clientSSL profile.
4. Documentation and redirection
The deprecation notes and redirection information are added to the IDL files and hence can be obtained in the instruction of the iControl methods.
Conditions:
When you need to configure OCSP object or use OCSP stapling for clientSSL profile using iControl SOAP.
Impact:
If you use an deprecated API, the system will internally convert it and perform as if you are using the new API. It is recommended that you use the new iControl SOAP API to configure OCSP related functions.
Workaround:
None needed.
Fix:
This version of the software has a new iControl SOAP API to configure OCSP related functions.
1. The interface LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters has been migrated to the Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP interface.
For example, to create a new OCSP object:
Old iControl API: proxy.LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters.create()
New iControl API: proxy.Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP.create()
Note that although the old iControl API calls are being deprecated, you can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new API calls in the system. For example if you create an OCSP object using the old API proxy.LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters.create(), the system will perform as if the user is using proxy.Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP.create().
While the interface LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters is migrated to Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP, most of the origianal API calls are preserved except set_trusted_certificate_authority, get_trusted_certificate_authority, set_use_proxy_server_state, and get_use_proxy_server_state. They are no longer available in the new interface Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP.
use_proxy_server was used to specify whether the OCSP object to use proxy_server or dns_resolver. However starting from 13.0.0, only one of them (proxy_server and dns_resolver) is allowed to be configured to an OCSP object and therefore the use_proxy_server flag is no longer needed.
trusted_certificate_authority is meant for the issuer CA certificate for both of the OCSP server and the certificate to be monitored. Starting from 13.0.0 the configuration of trusted_certificate_authority is replaced by the issuer certificate configuration for the certificate to be monitored.
Example:
To assign the issuer certificate for the certificate to be monitored, use
Management.KeyCertificate.set_issuer_certificate()
2. OCSP monitoring for certificate
Starting from 13.0.0, the OCSP monitoring is directly associated with SSL certificate instead of clientSSL profile. In other words, if a certificate is associated with an OCSP object and enable the OCSP monitoring, then the system will keep connecting to the OCSP server based on the OCSP configuration, and update the certificate status periodically, regardless the configuration or activities of any clientSSL profile.
Example:
To associate a certificate with an OCSP object, use
Management.KeyCertificate.add_certificate_validator()
Example:
To enable OCSP monitoring for the certificate, use
Management.KeyCertificate.set_certificate_status_validation_options()
Example:
To check the status for the certificate and its OCSP connection, use
Management.KeyCertificate.get_certificate_validation_status()
3. Enable OCSP stapling for clientSSL profile
If any of the SSL certificates used by the clientSSL profile has OCSP monitoring enabled, then the clientSSL profile can enable the ocsp-stapling option to allow the BIG-IP to staple the OCSP response for the certificate status with the certificate to the SSL client during SSL handshake.
Example:
To enable OCSP stapling for the clientSSL profile, use
LocalLB.ProfileClientSSL.set_ocsp_stapling_state()
Old iControl method: add OCSP object to the clientSSL profile
LocalLB.ProfileClientSSL.set_certificate_key_chain_ocsp_stapling_parameters()
Note that although the old iControl calls are being deprecated, you can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new API calls in the system. In other words if the user configure an OCSP object to a clientSSL profile, the system will perform the above Step 2 and 3, that is, assigning the OCSP object to the certificate (instead of the clientSSL profile), enabling OCSP monitoring for the certificate, and then enabling OCSP stapling for the clientSSL profile.
4. Documentation and redirection
The deprecation notes and redirection information are added to the IDL files and hence can be obtained in the instruction of the iControl methods.
Behavior Change:
1. The interface LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters has been migrated to the Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP interface.
For example, to create a new OCSP object:
Old iControl API: proxy.LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters.create()
New iControl API: proxy.Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP.create()
Note that although the old iControl API calls are being deprecated, you can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new API calls in the system. For example if you create an OCSP object using the old API proxy.LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters.create(), the system will perform as if the user is using proxy.Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP.create().
While the interface LocalLB.OCSPStaplingParameters is migrated to Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP, most of the origianal API calls are preserved except set_trusted_certificate_authority, get_trusted_certificate_authority, set_use_proxy_server_state, and get_use_proxy_server_state. They are no longer available in the new interface Management.CertificateValidatorOCSP.
use_proxy_server was used to specify whether the OCSP object to use proxy_server or dns_resolver. However starting from 13.0.0, only one of them (proxy_server and dns_resolver) is allowed to be configured to an OCSP object and therefore the use_proxy_server flag is no longer needed.
trusted_certificate_authority is meant for the issuer CA certificate for both of the OCSP server and the certificate to be monitored. Starting from 13.0.0 the configuration of trusted_certificate_authority is replaced by the issuer certificate configuration for the certificate to be monitored.
Example:
To assign the issuer certificate for the certificate to be monitored, use
Management.KeyCertificate.set_issuer_certificate()
2. OCSP monitoring for certificate
Starting from 13.0.0, the OCSP monitoring is directly associated with SSL certificate instead of clientSSL profile. In other words, if a certificate is associated with an OCSP object and enable the OCSP monitoring, then the system will keep connecting to the OCSP server based on the OCSP configuration, and update the certificate status periodically, regardless the configuration or activities of any clientSSL profile.
Example:
To associate a certificate with an OCSP object, use
Management.KeyCertificate.add_certificate_validator()
Example:
To enable OCSP monitoring for the certificate, use
Management.KeyCertificate.set_certificate_status_validation_options()
Example:
To check the status for the certificate and its OCSP connection, use
Management.KeyCertificate.get_certificate_validation_status()
3. Enable OCSP stapling for clientSSL profile
If any of the SSL certificates used by the clientSSL profile has OCSP monitoring enabled, then the clientSSL profile can enable the ocsp-stapling option to allow the BIG-IP to staple the OCSP response for the certificate status with the certificate to the SSL client during SSL handshake.
Example:
To enable OCSP stapling for the clientSSL profile, use
LocalLB.ProfileClientSSL.set_ocsp_stapling_state()
Old iControl method: add OCSP object to the clientSSL profile
LocalLB.ProfileClientSSL.set_certificate_key_chain_ocsp_stapling_parameters()
Note that although the old iControl calls are being deprecated, you can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new API calls in the system. In other words if the user configure an OCSP object to a clientSSL profile, the system will perform the above Step 2 and 3, that is, assigning the OCSP object to the certificate (instead of the clientSSL profile), enabling OCSP monitoring for the certificate, and then enabling OCSP stapling for the clientSSL profile.
4. Documentation and redirection
The deprecation notes and redirection information are added to the IDL files and hence can be obtained in the instruction of the iControl methods.
598199 : Migrating tmsh commands and logic for OCSP related configuration
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Migrating tmsh commands and logic for OCSP related configuration
1. To create/modify/delete an OCSP object:
Old tmsh command: "ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params"
New tmsh command: "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp"
Example: create an OCSP object
tmsh create sys crypto cert-validator ocsp my_ocsp1 dns-resolver test-dns
Note that although the old tmsh commands are being deprecated, you can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new commands in the system. In other words if the user configures an OCSP object using the old tmsh command "ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params", the system will perform as if the user is giving "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp".
While "ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params" are migrated to "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp", most of the original items are preserved except "use-proxy-server" and "trusted-ca". They will no longer appear in the new tmsh command "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp".
use-proxy-server was used to specify whether the OCSP object to use proxy_server or dns_resolver. However starting from 13.0.0, only one of them (proxy_server and dns_resolver) is allowed to be configured to an OCSP object and therefore the use-proxy-server flag is no longer needed.
trusted-ca is meant for the issuer CA certificate for both of the OCSP server and the certificate to be monitored. Starting from 13.0.0 the configuration of trusted-ca is replaced by the "issuer-cert" for the certificate to be monitored.
Example: configure issuer-cert for the certificate to be monitored
modify sys crypto cert dummy.crt issuer-cert chainCA.crt
2. OCSP monitoring for certificate
Starting from 13.0.0, the OCSP monitoring is directly associated with SSL certificate instead of clientSSL profile. In other words, if a certificate is associated with an OCSP object and enable the OCSP monitoring, then the system will keep connecting to the OCSP server based on the OCSP configuration, and update the certificate status periodically, regardless the configuration or activities of any clientSSL profile.
Example: associate a certificate with an OCSP object
tmsh modify sys crypto cert dummy.crt issuer-cert chainCA.crt cert-validators add { my_ocsp1 }
Example: enable OCSP monitoring for the certificate
tmsh modify sys crypto cert dummy.crt cert-validation-options { ocsp }
Example: check the status for the certificate and its OCSP connection
tmsh show sys crypto cert dummy.crt
3. Enable OCSP stapling for clientSSL profile
If any of the SSL certificates used by the clientSSL profile has OCSP monitoring enabled, then the clientSSL profile can enable the ocsp-stapling option to allow the BIG-IP to staple the OCSP response for the certificate status with the certificate to the SSL client during SSL handshake.
Example: enable OCSP stapling for the clientSSL profile
tmsh modify ltm profile client-ssl cssl ocsp-stapling enabled
Old tmsh command: add OCSP object to the clientSSL profile
tmsh modify ltm profile client-ssl cssl cert-key-chain modify { dummy { ocsp-stapling-params my_ocsp1 } }
Note that although the old tmsh commands are being deprecated, the user can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new commands in the system. In other words if the user configure an OCSP object to a clientSSL profile, the system will perform the above Step 2 and 3, that is, assigning the OCSP object to the certificate (instead of the clientSSL profile), enabling OCSP monitoring for the certificate, and then enabling ocsp-stapling for the clientSSL profile.
4. tmsh warning messages
When the user uses the deprecating tmsh commands, they will see prompted tmsh warnings to warn the user that the commands are deprecated.
For example,
[api-status-warning] ltm/profile/ocsp-stapling-params is deprecated
[api-status-warning] ltm/profile/client-ssl, properties : deprecated : cert-key-chain/ocsp-stapling-params
These warning messages can be disabled by:
tmsh modify mgmt shared settings api-status log resource deprecatedApiAllowed false
tmsh modify mgmt shared settings api-status log resource-property deprecatedApiAllowed false
5. Documentation and redirection
Direction to new tmsh commands can be found in the documentation of the deprecating command. For example,
root@(big6)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# modify ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params ?
[object identifier] Deprecated since v13.0.0. Use sys crypto cert-validator ocsp instead. Name of the
object.
root@(big6)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# modify ltm profile client-ssl cssl cert-key-chain modify { dummy { ocsp-stapling-params ?
Deprecated since v13.0.0. Please use modify sys crypto cert to configure an OCSP validator for the
certificate and use modify ltm profile client-ssl to enable ocsp-stapling for the clientssl profile.
Specifies the OCSP Stapling Parameters object associated with this cert-key-chain object in a clientssl
profile.
Conditions:
When you need to configure OCSP object or use OCSP stapling for clientSSL profile using tmsh.
Impact:
You will need to use the new command to configure OCSP related functions. If you provide the old command, the system will internally convert it and perform as if you used the new command. Besides, warning messages will be prompted on the screen.
For example,
[api-status-warning] ltm/profile/ocsp-stapling-params is deprecated
[api-status-warning] ltm/profile/client-ssl, properties : deprecated : cert-key-chain/ocsp-stapling-params
These warning messages can be disabled by:
tmsh modify mgmt shared settings api-status log resource deprecatedApiAllowed false
tmsh modify mgmt shared settings api-status log resource-property deprecatedApiAllowed false
Workaround:
None needed. This is an Action Item.
Fix:
Migrating tmsh commands and logic for OCSP related configuration
1. To create/modify/delete an OCSP object:
Old tmsh command: "ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params"
New tmsh command: "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp"
Example: create an OCSP object
tmsh create sys crypto cert-validator ocsp my_ocsp1 dns-resolver test-dns
Note that although the old tmsh commands are being deprecated, you can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new commands in the system. In other words if the user configures an OCSP object using the old tmsh command "ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params", the system will perform as if the user is giving "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp".
While "ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params" are migrated to "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp", most of the original items are preserved except "use-proxy-server" and "trusted-ca". They will no longer appear in the new tmsh command "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp".
use-proxy-server was used to specify whether the OCSP object to use proxy_server or dns_resolver. However starting from 13.0.0, only one of them (proxy_server and dns_resolver) is allowed to be configured to an OCSP object and therefore the use-proxy-server flag is no longer needed.
trusted-ca is meant for the issuer CA certificate for both of the OCSP server and the certificate to be monitored. Starting from 13.0.0 the configuration of trusted-ca is replaced by the "issuer-cert" for the certificate to be monitored.
Example: configure issuer-cert for the certificate to be monitored
modify sys crypto cert dummy.crt issuer-cert chainCA.crt
2. OCSP monitoring for certificate
Starting from 13.0.0, the OCSP monitoring is directly associated with SSL certificate instead of clientSSL profile. In other words, if a certificate is associated with an OCSP object and enable the OCSP monitoring, then the system will keep connecting to the OCSP server based on the OCSP configuration, and update the certificate status periodically, regardless the configuration or activities of any clientSSL profile.
Example: associate a certificate with an OCSP object
tmsh modify sys crypto cert dummy.crt issuer-cert chainCA.crt cert-validators add { my_ocsp1 }
Example: enable OCSP monitoring for the certificate
tmsh modify sys crypto cert dummy.crt cert-validation-options { ocsp }
Example: check the status for the certificate and its OCSP connection
tmsh show sys crypto cert dummy.crt
3. Enable OCSP stapling for clientSSL profile
If any of the SSL certificates used by the clientSSL profile has OCSP monitoring enabled, then the clientSSL profile can enable the ocsp-stapling option to allow the BIG-IP to staple the OCSP response for the certificate status with the certificate to the SSL client during SSL handshake.
Example: enable OCSP stapling for the clientSSL profile
tmsh modify ltm profile client-ssl cssl ocsp-stapling enabled
Old tmsh command: add OCSP object to the clientSSL profile
tmsh modify ltm profile client-ssl cssl cert-key-chain modify { dummy { ocsp-stapling-params my_ocsp1 } }
Note that although the old tmsh commands are being deprecated, the user can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new commands in the system. In other words if the user configure an OCSP object to a clientSSL profile, the system will perform the above Step 2 and 3, that is, assigning the OCSP object to the certificate (instead of the clientSSL profile), enabling OCSP monitoring for the certificate, and then enabling ocsp-stapling for the clientSSL profile.
4. tmsh warning messages
When the user uses the deprecating tmsh commands, they will see prompted tmsh warnings to warn the user that the commands are deprecated.
For example,
[api-status-warning] ltm/profile/ocsp-stapling-params is deprecated
[api-status-warning] ltm/profile/client-ssl, properties : deprecated : cert-key-chain/ocsp-stapling-params
These warning messages can be disabled by:
tmsh modify mgmt shared settings api-status log resource deprecatedApiAllowed false
tmsh modify mgmt shared settings api-status log resource-property deprecatedApiAllowed false
5. Documentation and redirection
Direction to new tmsh commands can be found in the documentation of the deprecating command. For example,
root@(big6)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# modify ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params ?
[object identifier] Deprecated since v13.0.0. Use sys crypto cert-validator ocsp instead. Name of the
object.
root@(big6)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# modify ltm profile client-ssl cssl cert-key-chain modify { dummy { ocsp-stapling-params ?
Deprecated since v13.0.0. Please use modify sys crypto cert to configure an OCSP validator for the
certificate and use modify ltm profile client-ssl to enable ocsp-stapling for the clientssl profile.
Specifies the OCSP Stapling Parameters object associated with this cert-key-chain object in a clientssl
profile.
Behavior Change:
Migrating tmsh commands and logic for OCSP related configuration
1. To create/modify/delete an OCSP object:
Old tmsh command: "ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params"
New tmsh command: "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp"
Example: create an OCSP object
tmsh create sys crypto cert-validator ocsp my_ocsp1 dns-resolver test-dns
Note that although the old tmsh commands are being deprecated, you can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new commands in the system. In other words if the user configures an OCSP object using the old tmsh command "ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params", the system will perform as if the user is giving "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp".
While "ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params" are migrated to "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp", most of the original items are preserved except "use-proxy-server" and "trusted-ca". They will no longer appear in the new tmsh command "sys crypto cert-validator ocsp".
use-proxy-server was used to specify whether the OCSP object to use proxy_server or dns_resolver. However starting from 13.0.0, only one of them (proxy_server and dns_resolver) is allowed to be configured to an OCSP object and therefore the use-proxy-server flag is no longer needed.
trusted-ca is meant for the issuer CA certificate for both of the OCSP server and the certificate to be monitored. Starting from 13.0.0 the configuration of trusted-ca is replaced by the "issuer-cert" for the certificate to be monitored.
Example: configure issuer-cert for the certificate to be monitored
modify sys crypto cert dummy.crt issuer-cert chainCA.crt
2. OCSP monitoring for certificate
Starting from 13.0.0, the OCSP monitoring is directly associated with SSL certificate instead of clientSSL profile. In other words, if a certificate is associated with an OCSP object and enable the OCSP monitoring, then the system will keep connecting to the OCSP server based on the OCSP configuration, and update the certificate status periodically, regardless the configuration or activities of any clientSSL profile.
Example: associate a certificate with an OCSP object
tmsh modify sys crypto cert dummy.crt issuer-cert chainCA.crt cert-validators add { my_ocsp1 }
Example: enable OCSP monitoring for the certificate
tmsh modify sys crypto cert dummy.crt cert-validation-options { ocsp }
Example: check the status for the certificate and its OCSP connection
tmsh show sys crypto cert dummy.crt
3. Enable OCSP stapling for clientSSL profile
If any of the SSL certificates used by the clientSSL profile has OCSP monitoring enabled, then the clientSSL profile can enable the ocsp-stapling option to allow the BIG-IP to staple the OCSP response for the certificate status with the certificate to the SSL client during SSL handshake.
Example: enable OCSP stapling for the clientSSL profile
tmsh modify ltm profile client-ssl cssl ocsp-stapling enabled
Old tmsh command: add OCSP object to the clientSSL profile
tmsh modify ltm profile client-ssl cssl cert-key-chain modify { dummy { ocsp-stapling-params my_ocsp1 } }
Note that although the old tmsh commands are being deprecated, the user can still see them working.
However they will internally be converted into the new commands in the system. In other words if the user configure an OCSP object to a clientSSL profile, the system will perform the above Step 2 and 3, that is, assigning the OCSP object to the certificate (instead of the clientSSL profile), enabling OCSP monitoring for the certificate, and then enabling ocsp-stapling for the clientSSL profile.
4. tmsh warning messages
When the user uses the deprecating tmsh commands, they will see prompted tmsh warnings to warn the user that the commands are deprecated.
For example,
[api-status-warning] ltm/profile/ocsp-stapling-params is deprecated
[api-status-warning] ltm/profile/client-ssl, properties : deprecated : cert-key-chain/ocsp-stapling-params
These warning messages can be disabled by:
tmsh modify mgmt shared settings api-status log resource deprecatedApiAllowed false
tmsh modify mgmt shared settings api-status log resource-property deprecatedApiAllowed false
5. Documentation and redirection
Direction to new tmsh commands can be found in the documentation of the deprecating command. For example,
root@(big6)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# modify ltm profile ocsp-stapling-params ?
[object identifier] Deprecated since v13.0.0. Use sys crypto cert-validator ocsp instead. Name of the
object.
root@(big6)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# modify ltm profile client-ssl cssl cert-key-chain modify { dummy { ocsp-stapling-params ?
Deprecated since v13.0.0. Please use modify sys crypto cert to configure an OCSP validator for the
certificate and use modify ltm profile client-ssl to enable ocsp-stapling for the clientssl profile.
Specifies the OCSP Stapling Parameters object associated with this cert-key-chain object in a clientssl
profile.
598052 : SSL Forward Proxy "Cache Certificate by Addr-Port", cache lookup fails
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When enabling the SSL Forward Proxy "Cache Certificate by Addr-Port" on the client SSL profile, later flows on cached certificate lookups by "Addr-Port" do not hit the cache.
Conditions:
Enable SSL Forward Proxy and use "Cache certificate by Addr-Port".
Impact:
The client side certificate lookup failed, it may trigger the server side SSL handshake.
Fix:
With this fix, the certificate lookup by "Addr-Port" may have a cache hit.
598039 : MCP memory may leak when performing a wildcard query
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
MCP's umem_alloc_80 cache (visible using tmctl -a) increases in size after certain wildcard queries. Accordingly, the MCP process shows increased memory usage.
Conditions:
Folders must be in use, and the user must execute a wildcard query for objects that are in the upper levels of the folder hierarchy (i.e. not at the very bottom of the folder tree).
Impact:
MCP loses available memory with each query. MCP could eventually run out of memory and core, resulting in an outage or failover (depending on whether or not the customer is running in a device cluster).
Workaround:
Do not perform wildcard queries.
Fix:
Stopped MCP leaking when wildcard queries are performed.
597978 : GARPs may be transmitted by active going offline
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
GARPs may be transmitted by the active when going offline. As the standby which takes over for the active will also transmit GARPs, it is not expected that this will cause impact.
Conditions:
Multiple traffic-groups configured and active goes offline.
Impact:
It is not expected that this will cause any impact.
Workaround:
Make the unit standby before forcing offline.
597900 : iControl REST may core when logging in immediately after a reboot
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In rare conditions, Control REST may core when logging in immediately after restarting the BIG-IP system.
Conditions:
This happens when all the necessary services required by iControl REST are not fully initialized upon restart.
Impact:
Impact usability of iControl REST. This is a rare occurrence.
Workaround:
Avoid logging in immediately to the BIG-IP after a reboot.
Fix:
iControl REST no longer rarely cores when logging in immediately after restarting the BIG-IP system.
597899 : Disabling all pool members may not be reflected in Virtual Server status
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When all pool members are set to session-disable, the expectation is that persistent connections will be drained, and the virtual server shouldn't accept new incoming connections.
- Simply disabling (not forcing down) a node does not bubble up to pool status, because it switches from green-enabled to green-disabled (staying green is seen as a non-change).
- Since the pool enabled/disabled state is not updated, this does not bubble up to the virtual, which also stays green-enabled.
Conditions:
See above
Impact:
Disabling all members of a pool may not be reflected in Virtual Server status, indicating it is green enabled when in fact it has been disabled indirectly by disabling all members of the related pool.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Green-Disabled status roll-up to Pool (from Pool Member / Node Address) is still necessary. But instead of marking the Virtual Server Yellow, which would stop existing traffic flows on the Virtual, BIG-IP will propagate the Green-Disabled status to the Virtual Server as well.
So in the case where all the Pools associated with a Virtual Server are Green-Disabled (because all the Pool Members for all the Pools are Green-Disabled), the status of the Virtual Server will become Green-Disabled. As soon as any Pool (Pool Member) becomes Green-Enabled, the Virtual Server will also become Green-Enabled.
Note that Green-Disabled shows up as Gray in the GUI.
597879 : CDG Congestion Control can lead to instability
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Debug TMM crashes when the TCP congestion window allows an abnormally high or low congestion window. You can see this by looking at the bandwidth value in "tmsh show net cmetrics" if cmetrics-cache is enabled in the TCP profile.
Conditions:
Running the Debug TMM with CDG Congestion Control.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
In the default TMM, the allowed sending rate will be abnormally high or low.
Workaround:
Use a congestion control algorithm other than CDG.
Switch to the default TMM.
Fix:
Fixed congestion window calculation in CDG.
597835 : Branch parameter in inserted VIA header not consistent as per spec
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
MRF SIP in LoadBalancing Operation Mode inserts a VIA header to SIP request messages. This VIA header is removed from the returned response message. The VIA header contains encrypted routing information to route the response message. The SIP spec states that all messages in the same transaction should contain the same branch header. The code used to encrypt the branch field returns a different value each time.
Conditions:
Enabling SIP Via header insertion on the BIGIP on SIP MRF profile and need to cancel an INVITE
Impact:
Some servers have code to verify the brach fields in the VIA header do not change within a transaction. These servers complain when they see the fields change.
Fix:
The code has been improved to ensure the branch field in the via header does not change.
597828 : SSL forward proxy crashes in some cases
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
SSL forward proxy crashes when a check in the state machine is called with something other than a fwdp lookup result
Conditions:
SSL forward proxy is enabled.
Impact:
SSL forward proxy crashes sometimes.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Fixed a crash in the SSL forward proxy.
597823 : Erroneous syncookie validation in HSB causes the BIG-IP system choose the wrong MSS value
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When software encoding algorithm is being used by tmm to generate syn cookies in a SYN/ACK packet, there is a chance that HSB would mistakenly identify the ACK response to the SYN/ACK as valid syncookie response and stamp a SYNCOOID_VALID flag on the packet. In that case, software will 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 performance degradation.
Conditions:
When software syncookie protection mode is activated and software encoding algorithm is being used.
Impact:
Connections will either fail or smaller mss value causes performance degradation.
Fix:
If software syncookie encoding algorithm is being used, tmm would ignore the SYNCOOKIE_VALID flag stamped by HSB and correct MSS value will be calculated.
597818 : Unable to configure IPsec NAT-T to "force"
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When configuring IPsec NAT traversal to "Force", the behavior is as if the setting is "Off".
Conditions:
Configuring IPsec NAT Traversal to Force
Impact:
NAT-T does not work
Workaround:
Configure NAT-T to On instead.
597766 : FPS Live update after re-license
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Latest Update Details are lost in FPS Engine and Signatures Updates.
Conditions:
License renewal.
Impact:
You will not know when the update was created or the last time it was updated.
Workaround:
bigstart restart datasyncd
Fix:
Now details are restored automatically after re-license.
597729 : Errors logged after deleting user in GUI
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
After deleting a user in the BIG-IP GUI (under Access Policy :: Local User DB : Manage Users), the following symptoms may potentially be observed:
1. After approximately 10 minutes, an error similar to the following may appear in the LTM log (/var/log/ltm):
mcpd[25939]: 01070418:5: connection 0x5dde19c8 (user admin) was closed with active requests
Such message may also appear in /var/log/webui.log and /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out.
2. After clicking Refresh, the GUI may not show the correct web page.
Conditions:
It is possible that this error could be encountered when deleting local users (Access Policy :: Local User DB : Manage Users), and may theoretically be encountered in other ways. The issue might require deleting a user and then remaining on the Manage Users page until an internal timeout of approximately 10 minutes passes.
Impact:
Error messages logged.
GUI may not show the correct web page.
Workaround:
Use the CLI (tmsh) to delete local users.
597708 : Stats are unavailable and VCMP state and status is incorrect
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Unable to retrieve statistics or statistics are all 0 (zero) when they should not be zero.
This is VCMP related.
Guest Virtual-disk always show in-use even when guest not in the running state.
When the guest OS is shut down, the GUI and TMSH do not show accurate information about status.
Conditions:
If a directory is removed from /shared/tmstat/snapshots merged might run at 100% CPU utilization and become unresponsive.
Impact:
No statistics are available. Some statistics, such as traffic stats from TMM, will not be updated, though they may be non-zero. Others, such as system CPU stats that are calculated by merged, will be zero. This will be evident through all management interfaces such as TMSH, TMUI, SNMP, etc.
VCMP guest O/S status is reportedly incorrectly.
Workaround:
If merged is hung, restart the daemon using the following command:
bigstart restart merged.
To prevent the issue from occurring, disable tmstat snapshots using the following command:
tmsh modify sys db merged.snapshots value false.
Fix:
The merged process no longer becomes unresponsive when a directory is removed from /shared/tmstat/snapshots.
597621 : Packet filter does not work.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
- Packet filter has been created, can be seen in web GUI or as output of the following command: tmsh list net packet-filter.
- Packet filter does not work.
Conditions:
might result in complex Berkeley (or BSD) Packet Filter (BPF) code with a loop. TMM does not support BPF code with loops and does not instantiate the rule. As such, the rule is never triggered. For example, ip6 protochain 6 is a valid pcap expression accepted by MCP, but TMM is more strict and rejects it, because it contains a loop, which is not allowed.
Impact:
Filter does not work. The rule does not get triggered, and failure occurs silently.
Workaround:
Currently there is no easy way to determine whether a filter rules is working properly, specifically because there is no message indicating that the rule failed, and because the rule appears in the GUI and is listed via tmsh commands. The only way to diagnose the issue is by symptoms. For example, packets are not filtered as expected.
Fix:
In this release, when a packet filter definition results in a loop, or another unsupported expression, the system posts a message similar to the following: 01070087:3: Packet filter rule '/Common/protochain': This filter expression is not supported.
597532 : iRule: RADIUS avp command returns a signed integer
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
iRules that process attribute-value pairs from RADIUS treat integers as signed when they should be treated as unsigned.
Conditions:
iRules using RADIUS::avp to retrieve data
Impact:
iRules using the RADIUS::avp command will not work as expected.
Workaround:
The result can be casted to an unsigned integer after obtaining the value, as follows:
ltm rule radius_avp_integer {
when CLIENT_DATA {
set charid_integer [RADIUS::avp 26 "integer" index 0 vendor-id XXXXX vendor-type Y]
set unsigned_charid_integer [expr {$charid_integer & 0xFFFFFFFF}]
}
}
Note that tmm internally treats avp values as signed integers so this might not completely correct the issue.
Fix:
Ensure that we are using unsigned integers for RADIUS AVPs.
597528 : define default score for fps-generated alerts
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
Several fps-generated alerts do not have default score
Conditions:
FPS alert is generated.
Impact:
You are unable to differentiate alerts by score for multiple FPS alerts.
Workaround:
Default score has been added to all requested alerts.
Fix:
All requested alerts (components_validation, user_defined, referrer_check, encryption_failure) now have fpm_score field present with user-defined score.
597471-1 : Some Alerts are sent with outdated username value
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
user-defined, components validation and vtrack Alerts are sent with outdated username value
Conditions:
Log in, then log in again with different user (with conditions to generate an alert)
Impact:
Alert is sent with username of the first login
Fix:
Alerts sending is blocked until after parameters processing is done
597431 : VPN establishment may fail when computer wakes up from sleep
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
EdgeClient doesn't cleanup routing table before windows goes to hibernate. This may result in establishment of VPN when computer wakes up. It may also result in other network connectivity issues
Conditions:
-VPN connection is not disconnected
-Computer goes in hibernation
Impact:
Issues with Network connectivity
Workaround:
Renew DHCP lease by running
ipconfig/renew.
or
reboot the machine.
597421 : DNS server setting configured on APM may not take effect on Linux
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases DNS settings configured in network access configuration may not apply leading to DNS resolution failure for some backend DNS resources
Conditions:
-Linux CLI client is used
- existing /etc/host has more than 2 entries
Impact:
DNS resolution may fail for some names.
597405 : Mitigate SSL handshake delay when TCP nagle is enabled.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When TCP nagle is enabled, it adds some delay for SSL handshake message. Then SSL should send HUDCTL_REQUEST_DONE/HUDCTL_RESPONSE_DONE to TCP to
remove the delay for all SSL handshake messages which are sent and wait for reply.
Conditions:
When TCP nagle is enabled
Impact:
it adds some delay for SSL handshake message. Then SSL should send HUDCTL_REQUEST_DONE/HUDCTL_RESPONSE_DONE to TCP to
remove the delay for all SSL handshake messages which are sent and wait for reply.
Fix:
When TCP nagle is enabled, it adds some delay for SSL handshake message. Then SSL should send HUDCTL_REQUEST_DONE/HUDCTL_RESPONSE_DONE to TCP to
remove the delay for all SSL handshake messages which are sent and wait for reply.
597385 : Support for the Maximum Fragment Length TLS extension
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
RFC 4366 defines a TLS extension which limits the maximum fragment length the SSL server will send. The system ignores this.
Conditions:
A TLS client sends the Maximum Fragment Length TLS extension.
Impact:
Smaller IoT clients cannot connect because the default maximum fragment length is larger than they can handle.
Workaround:
There is no workaround.
Fix:
The BIG-IP TLS stack now honors the maximum fragment length requested by the TLS client.
597331 : Portal Access: HTML 'PARAM' tag cannot be handled correctly by Internet Explorer in IE5.5, IE7, or IE8 emulation modes.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If HTML page contains dynamically created and/or modified PARAM tag with URL list value, this tag may not be handled correctly in Internet Explorer in IE5.5, IE7, or IE8 emulation modes.
Conditions:
- Internet Explorer in IE5.5, IE7 or IE8 emulation modes or native Internet Explorer versions 7 or 8.
- HTML page with dynamically created/modified 'PARAM' tag with URL list in value.
Impact:
JavaScript error appears during 'PARAM' tag value processing.
Workaround:
Use an iRule to add necessary JavaScript corrections to affected page.
Fix:
Now HTML pages with dynamically created/changed 'PARAM' tags are handled correctly by Portal Access in Internet Explorer IE5.5, IE7, or IE8 emulation modes.
597309 : Increase the Maximum Members Per Trunk limit to 32 or 64 for high end platforms
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The Maximum Members Per Trunk limits is 8 or 16 depending on platform. This is due to
1. the limitation of an SDK from a third party vendor,
2. the number of external interfaces actually provided by earlier platforms
Conditions:
These platform limits are on the BIG-IP 10000 appliance and B2400, B4300, and B4450 blades.
Impact:
The existing number of interfaces per trunk is limited to either 8 or 16.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
New limit of 32 is implemented in 10000, Viprion 2400 and Viprion 4300. New limit 64 is implemented for Viprion 4450N.
597253 : HTTP::respond tcl command may incorrectly identify parameters as ifiles
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The HTTP::respond iRule command may incorrectly identify parameters as an iFile parameter when attaching the iRule to a Virtual Server.
Conditions:
HTTP::respond command making use of a variable as a header name. For instance:
HTTP::respond 500 -version 1.1 content "<content>" "$VariableHeaderName" "header_value_text" "Connection" "close"
Configure a HTTP/TCP virtual server and attach the iRule.
Impact:
1070151:3: Rule [/Common/example_rule] error: Unable to find ifile (header_value_text) referenced at line 3: [HTTP::respond 500 -version 1.1 content "<content>" "$VariableHeaderName" "header_value_text" "Connection" "close"]
Workaround:
Ensure the offending header name and value are either both literal strings or variables.
Fix:
BigIP no longer incorrectly identifies parameters as an iFile parameter.
597214 : Portal Access / JavaScript code which uses reserved keywords for field names in literal object definition may not work correctly
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
JavaScript code with literal object definition containing field names equal to reserved keywords is not handled correctly by Portal Access.
Conditions:
JavaScript code with literal object definition containing fields with reserved keywords as a name, for example:
var a = { default: 1, continue: 2 };
Impact:
JavaScript code is not rewritten and may not work correctly.
Workaround:
It is possible to use iRule to rename field names in original code.
Fix:
Now JavaScript with literal object definition containing reserved keywords as field names is handled correctly by Portal Access.
597089 : Connections are terminated after 5 seconds when using ePVA full acceleration
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When using a fast L4 profile with ePVA full acceleration configured, the 5-second TCP 3WHS handshake timeout is not being updated to the TCP idle timeout after the handshake is completed. The symptom is an unusually high number of connections getting reset in a short period of time.
Conditions:
It is not known all of the conditions that trigger this, but it is seen when using the fast L4 profile with pva-acceleration set to full.
Impact:
High number of connections get reset, longer than expected idling TCP connections, and potential performance issues.
Workaround:
Disabling the PVA resolves the issue.
597023 : NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-4954
Vulnerability Solution Article: K82644737
597010 : NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-4955
Vulnerability Solution Article: K03331206
596997 : NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-4956
Vulnerability Solution Article: K64505405
596826 : Don't set the mirroring address to a floating self IP address
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Using tmsh, you can configure the mirroring IP address using the command tmsh modify cm device devicename mirror-secondary-ip ip_address
It is possible to set ip_address to a floating self IP address when using tmsh, but BIG-IP can't mirror to a floating self IP address. The tmsh command will complete without error.
Conditions:
Accidentally setting the mirroring IP address to the floating self IP address using tmsh.
Impact:
Mirroring does not work in this case. If you configured it this way using tmsh, the GUI will show the primary and secondary mirroring address as "None".
Workaround:
Change the mirroring address to a non floating self IP address. The GUI will only present non floating self IP addresses.
For more information about mirroring, see K13478: Overview of connection and persistence mirroring at https://support.f5.com/csp/#/article/K13478
596815 : System DNS nameserver and search order configuration does not always sync to peers
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Modifying the System DNS nameserver and search order configuration does not always sync during an incremental sync if modified in the GUI or tmsh modify sys db.
Conditions:
The device is in a failover device group with incremental sync turned on.
In the GUI, modify the DNS Lookup Server List or the DNS Search Domain List fields under System >> Configuration : Device : DNS.
In tmsh, tmsh modify sys db dns.nameserver (or dns.domainname), and in some cases tmsh modify sys dns name-servers (or search)
Impact:
Modifications will not change the sync status nor sync the change to peers.
Workaround:
Perform a full sync or use 'tmsh modify sys dns name-servers replace-all-with' or 'tmsh modify sys dns search replace-all-with'.
Optionally, to get this setting to sync, modify the file /config/BigDB.dat to set realm=common for [DNS.NameServers] and [DNS.DomainName] and restart mcpd on all devices in the failover device group. However, this file may get overridden on a hotfix or upgrade.
Fix:
The sys db variables dns.domainname and dns.nameserver will now always sync across your failover device group.
596814 : HA Failover fails in certain valid AWS configurations
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Some of the floating object's IPs might not be reattached to the instance acting as the new active device.
Conditions:
AWS deployments where there are multiple coincidences for the provided IP address (corresponding to other Amazon VPCs in the same Availability Zone containing unrelated instances but having the same IP address as the BIG-IP's floating IP address.
Impact:
Potential traffic disruption. Some of the floating object's IPs might not be reattached to the instance acting as the new active device.
Workaround:
Do not have AWS deployments with multiple VPCs sharing the same IP address as the BIG-IP's floating IP address.
Fix:
Failover now narrows network description by filtering with VPC id.
596809 : It is possible to create ssh rules with blank space for auth-info
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
In tmsh it is possible to create profile actions that contain blank spaces, such as in this example:
create security ssh profile ssh-test actions add { " " } rules add { " " { actions add { " " } identity-users add { " "} identity-groups add { " " } } } auth-info add { " " }
Conditions:
This occurs when creating profile actions.
Impact:
Actions can be created with blank spaces in them, you should be receiving a validation error. These rules also cannot be deleted.
Workaround:
Do not create profile actions with blank spaces.
Fix:
BIG-IP will now throw a validation error if you create a profile action containing only a blank space.
596674 : High memory usage when using CS features with gzip HTML responses.
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
AVR use consumes a lot of memory while trying to decompress responses. This can cause tmm core during stress traffic.
Conditions:
-- Enabled Dosl7d virtual server with CS features.
-- The server is sending compressed responses.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
High memory usage no longer occurs when using CS features with gzip HTML responses.
596631 : SIP MRF: Wrong listener may be deleted during media deny-listener deletions, causing crash later
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
A SIP media flow deny-listener was to have been deleted but an unrelated listener was deleted instead due to an incorrect address/port match.
For example, when the wrongly deleted listener is later meant to be deleted, there might be a SIGFPE with assertion failure "Assertion "bound listener" failed.".
Conditions:
A SIP MRF media flow existed and was deleted.
An unrelated flow exists with an address/port with wildcards such that it includes that of the media flow.
Impact:
Later when the wrongly deleted listener is referenced, the TMM crashes.
Fix:
When a SIP media flow deny-listener is searched for deletion, an exact match is required that uniquely identifies the deny-listener, so that an unrelated listener is not deleted.
596569 : Memory leak on Central device in Symmetric deployment
Component: WebAccelerator
Symptoms:
When AAM is provisioned and symmetric configuration is deployed, a central unit will suffer a memory leak.
Conditions:
AAM is provisioned and a symmetric deployment is used.
Impact:
Due to memory leak BIG-IP will run out of memory and won't be able to properly serve new requests.
Fix:
It immediately releases a memory allocation which previously leaked once the allocation is no longer required.
596556 : Deleting self-ip that could possibly strand pool member will throw warning instead
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Previously, validation would prevent self-ip from being deleted, if the self-ip could possibly strand a pool member.
Conditions:
Deleting a self-ip, and the self-ip could be use to reach an existing pool member
Impact:
You will be unable to delete the self-ip address. Mcpd will throw an error "Cannot delete IP 10.10.10.1 because it would leave a pool member (pool /Common/mypool) unreachable."
Workaround:
Delete the pool member first, and then delete the self-ip
Fix:
It's possible to delete a self-ip that have the same network as a pool member, which will throw a warning instead, where previously it was preventing the deletion from happening.
596502 : Unable to force Bot Defense action to Allow in iRule
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
When a request is being blocked (or challenged with CAPTCHA) due to being a suspicious browser, the action cannot be forced to allow in the iRule
Conditions:
This occurs when a bot defense action is triggered on suspicious browser, and you wish to allow the request to go through anyway and not send a RST.
Impact:
The bot defense action cannot be forced to "allow", the RST will still be sent.
596488 : GraphicsMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-5118.
Vulnerability Solution Article: K82747025
596450 : TMM may produce a core file after updating SSL session ticket key
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When regenerating SSL session ticket key, TMM may restart unexpectedly, leaving a core file.
Conditions:
When the value of ssl.sessionticketkey.regen is reached (every 3 days by default), TMM will regenerate its SSL session ticket key. This operation may lead to an assert: "shared random data inited".
Impact:
TMM core and restart.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Resolved a problem that could cause TMM to restart when regenerating the SSL session ticket key
596433 : Virtual with lasthop configured rejects request with no route to client.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Virtual with lasthop pool configured rejects requests which are sourced from MAC address which is not configured in the lasthop pool.
Conditions:
This issue occurs when the following conditions are meet:
- Virtual with lasthop pool.
- Connection sourced from MAC address which is not configured in the lasthop pool.
- Lasthop pool member is local to TMM.
- tm.lhpnomemberaction db key is set to 2.
Impact:
Connection is erroneously reset with no route to client.
Workaround:
- Change tm.lhpnomemberaction db key to 0 or 1 (behavior change).
- Add IP address for lasthop member which client is originating from to lasthop pool.
596340 : F5 TLS vulnerability CVE-2016-9244
Vulnerability Solution Article: K05121675
596336 : SSO object is not assigned to Access Profile on usage of Wizard
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
With successful creation of APM-specific objects using Wizard, assigning an SSO object to a profile does not add the SSO object to the access profile.
Conditions:
Wizard should complete all the user steps, and create all required objects along with associations.
Impact:
Misleading, because the chosen SSO object is not associated with the profile. You must manually assign the SSO object to the profile after completing the wizard.
Workaround:
Assign the SSO to Access Profile on Profile profile properties :: SSO :: Auth Domains tab on UI or using TMSH.
Fix:
The system now auto-create the association between Profile and SSO Object with successful creation of APM-specific objects using Wizard.
596330 : Portal Access do not preserve tag order in popup window's document
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Portal Access do not preserve tag order in popup window document body
Conditions:
Web-application which opens Pop-up windows.
Javascript code trying access 1st element in document body.
Impact:
Web-application misfunction.
Workaround:
Custom iRule can be provided.
Fix:
The issue is fixed.
596242 : [zxfrd] Improperly configured master name server for one zone makes dns express responds with previoius record
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
Improperly configured master name server for one zone prevented updates to properly configured other zones
from propagating to tmm, thus making dns express respond with previous record.
Conditions:
A wrongly configured dns zone which could not get update correctly.
Impact:
DNS express returns incorrect answers.
Workaround:
Fix the wrongly configured dns zone.
596128 : Allow configuration of secondary addresses for multipoint VXLAN tunnels
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Currently the secondary address setting is not enabled for VXLAN tunnels.
Conditions:
VXLAN tunnels are configured.
Impact:
The setting is useful in scenarios where remote VTEPs are unable to dynamically re-learn IP address, MAC address, and endpoint associations upon failover events.
Fix:
This change enables the configuration of the secondary address setting for multipoint VXLAN tunnels.
When setting the secondary address a multipoint VXLAN tunnel, the tunnel creates an additional endpoint, the secondary endpoint. This is associated with the local-only traffic group and sources tunnel flows carrying monitor and host traffic. This endpoint is created in addition to the local address endpoint which is used to encapsulate frames associated with the configured tunnel traffic group.
Behavior Change:
When setting the secondary address a multipoint VXLAN tunnel, the tunnel creates an additional endpoint, the secondary endpoint. This is associated with the local-only traffic group and sources tunnel flows carrying monitor and host traffic. This endpoint is created in addition to the local address endpoint which is used to encapsulate frames associated with the configured tunnel traffic group.
596116 : LDAP Query does not resolve group membership, when required attribute(s) specified
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Corresponding session variable session.ldap.last.memberOf contains only the groups user has explicit membership.
Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
-- When APM LDAP Query is configured with option "Fetch groups to which the user or group belong" is set to "All".
-- The Required Attribute includes the "memberOf" LDAP attribute.
Impact:
Only groups the user is a direct member of will be populated to the APM 'session.ldap.last.memberOf' variable.
Workaround:
Add the following attribute to the "Required Attributes" list:
"objectClass"
If APM is communicating via LDAP with Microsoft Active Directory, consider adding this attribute to the list:
"primaryGroupID"
Note: Adding the "primaryGroupID" attribute will cause APM to fetch all groups Microsoft Active Directory, including the primary group.
Fix:
LDAP Query now retrieves groups from the backend server in accordance with option "fetch groups to which the user or group belong". it doesn't matter if any required attribute set or not set.
596104 : HA trunk unavailable for VCMP guest★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
If a VCMP guest is configured with an HA trunk with a threshold value greater than 0, the HA trunk configuration will fail with a message similar to the following:
err mcpd[5926]: 01071569:3: Ha group ha_group threshold for trunk _your_trunk_name_here_ 1 is greater than the maximum number of members 0.
Conditions:
This occurs when an HA trunk is configured a VCMP guest, with a threshold value greater than 0. This may occur by any of the following means:
1) Attempting to upgrade a guest to an affected version of BIG-IP, with an HA trunk configured with a threshold value greater than 0. The upgrade will fail with the indicated error message.
2) Attempting to load a UCS from a guest with an HA trunk configured with a threshold value greater than 0. The UCS load will fail with the indicated error message.
3) Creating an HA group and then attempting to modify the threshold value for the HA trunk. The modify command will fail with the indicated error message.
Impact:
HA trunks will not work on affected BIG-IP versions.
You will be unable to upgrade to an affected version of BIG-IP or load a configuration with an HA trunk configured with a threshold value greater than 0.
Workaround:
Configuring the HA trunk threshold to 0 will allow the upgrade to succeed or the configuration to load.
However, this disables the HA trunk feature.
Fix:
HA trunks with a threshold value greater than 0 are supported.
596083 : Error running custom APM Reports with "session creation time" on Viprion Platform
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Error is encountered when running custom APM Reports with "session creation time" on Viprion Platform
Conditions:
- On Viprion platform
- Create a APM custom report
- Select "Session creation time" field
- Run the report
Impact:
Won't be able to run custom APM report on Viprion platform
596067-3 : GUI on VIPRION hangs on secondary blade reboot
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
After rebooting a VIPRION chassis, the GUI suddenly becomes unresponsive several minutes after the reboot.
Conditions:
It is not known exactly triggers this as it is a race condition that occurs on system start, but it is believed that Enterprise Manager making queries against the VIPRION for non-chunked statistics while the blade(s) has not fully started will trigger this condition.
Impact:
GUI becomes unresponsive
Workaround:
bigstart restart httpd will clear this condition if it occurs.
595966 : SSL hardware acceleration statistics might be incorrect.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
On a BIG-IP device, hardware acceleration is still showing as 'Full' for some ciphersuites that employ a combination of software and hardware acceleration. It should be showing an acceleration type of 'Partial' in these cases.
Conditions:
When some operations (such as handshakes) happen in software while others (such as bulk encryption / decryption) are hardware-accelerated, for some ciphersuites.
Impact:
No impact to any other module
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Hardware acceleration statistics will be incremented as follows:
1. If all operations concerning the handshake and bulk encryption are done in hardware, the result is Full.
2. If some operations are done in software, while others are done in hardware the result is Partial.
3. If no operations are hardware accelerated the result is None (Software).
595946 : Expired Timestamp violation is triggered too often
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Expired Timestamp violation is frequently encountered by benign traffic. This occurs whenever there is an interval of at least 10 minutes between requests by a particular browser.
Conditions:
The Expired Timestamp violation is enabled, and there is an interval of at least 10 minutes between requests by a particular browser.
Impact:
The Expired Timestamp violation is triggered and traffic may be blocked.
Workaround:
Disable Expired Timestamp violation.
Fix:
All predefined policy templates have Expired Timestamp disabled.
595921 : VLAN groups with no Self IP addresses defined might generate ICMP messages with loopback addresses.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
VLAN groups with no Self IP addresses defined might generate ICMP messages with loopback addresses.
Conditions:
Configuration of a virtual server on a VLAN group that does not have a Self-IP configured.
Impact:
Traffic destined for the virtual server might be rejected with an ICMP unreachable sourced from a loopback address.
Workaround:
Use a Self IP address on the VLAN group.
Fix:
The BIG-IP system no longer sends ICMP from loopback addresses when in use with a VLAN group without a configured Self IP address.
595832 : SSH Proxy profile visible in GUI available without AFM provision
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
The SSH Proxy profile is visible in the virtual server configuration even if AFM is not provisioned.
Conditions:
This profile is visible in Security :: Protocol Security : Security Profiles : SSH Proxy in the configuration utility.
It is also visible in the Virtual Server configuration page as an available profile.
Impact:
The SSH Proxy profile appears as if it is available for the virtual server, but the profile cannot be used without an AFM license.
Workaround:
License and provision AFM in order to use the SSH Proxy profile.
Fix:
If AFM is not provisioned, the virtual server configuration page does not show SSH Proxy profile selection options.
595819 : 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,
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
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.
Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
- An HTTP/2 enabled browser is in use.
- APM and HTTP/2 are enabled on the same virtual.
Impact:
APM statistics for bytes in and out are not updated.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Access session 'Bytes In' and 'Bytes Out' are now getting updated when accessed with a http/2 enabled browser and HTTP/2 profile attached,
595773 : Cancellation requests for chunked stats queries do not propagate to secondary blades
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Canceling a request for a chunked stats query (e.g. hitting ctrl-c during "tmsh show sys connection") does not stop data flowing from secondary blades.
Conditions:
A chassis-based system with multiple blades. Users must execute a chunked stats query (e.g. "tmsh show sys connection") and then cancel it before it finishes (e.g. with ctrl-c in tmsh).
Impact:
Unnecessary data will be sent from TMM to secondary mcpd instances, as well as from secondary mcpd instances to the primary mcpd instance. This could cause mcpd to restart unexpectedly.
Fix:
Cancellations for chunked stats queries are now propagated to secondary blades.
595712 : Not able to add remote user locally
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When a user has logged in remotely, using tmsh to add a user with the same name will fail:
01020066:3: The requested user role partition (raduser TestPartition) already exists in partition Common.
Conditions:
Remote authentication is configured and a remote user has logged in.
Impact:
Changing remote user to local fails.
Workaround:
Use "replace-all-with" for partition access:
create auth user raduser password raduser1 partition-access replace-all-with { TestPartition {role manager }}
595394 : 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.★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
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.
Conditions:
11.5.x/11.6.x Hourly Billing instances with multiple NICs attached.
Impact:
User might not be able to log-in to the instance.
Workaround:
Rebooting the instance corrects the problem.
Fix:
Upgrading 11.5.x/11.6.x hourly billing instances in AWS with multiple NICs to 12.1.x works with new Hourly billing licenses.
595385 : HTTP:respond causes a keepalive connection to be RST after second request and "Invalid action" log.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Clients experience connection resets when using HTTP keep-alives. LTM log contains 'Invalid action' messages in the log that look similar to the following:
http_process_state_prepend - Invalid action:0x109010 (Server side: vip=/Common/myprofile=http pool=/Common/mypool server_ip=ip_address).
Conditions:
HTTP virtual server with an iRule attached. The invocation of the HTTP::respond API within the iRule's HTTP_REQUEST_SEND event for an HTTP keep-alive connection causes a reset of the keep-alive connection.
Impact:
HTTP keep-alive connections are being dropped when the iRule on the virtual server handling the HTTP traffic invokes the HTTP::respond API in the HTTP_REQUEST_SEND event.
Workaround:
Issue a HTTP::close before HTTP::respond
Example:
when HTTP_REQUEST_SEND {
clientside {
if {[HTTP::path] eq "/findex.html"} {
HTTP::close
HTTP::respond 200 content "This is my response"
}
}
}
Alternatively, issue HTTP::respond from a different event.
595317 : Forwarding address for Type 7 in ospfv3 is not updated in the database
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The ospf nssa-external database is not updated when the global address on an interface that is used as a forwarding address is changed
Conditions:
remove the global address on the forwarding interface
Impact:
the packets will be sent to an incorrect interface.
Workaround:
clear ipv6 ospf process
Fix:
The ospf nasa-external data shows correct forwarding address when the global address on the forwarding interface is changed.
595293 : Deleting GTM links could cause gtm_add to fail on new devices.
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Once links are auto-discovered, if auto discovery is disabled and the links are deleted, they could become stuck in the Server > Virtual Server list, preventing new devices from joining the sync group. If gtm_add is run from a new device, the add will appear to succeed, but no GTM objects will show up on the unit.
Conditions:
Links are auto-discovered
Auto discovery is disabled
The links are deleted
Impact:
If gtm_add is run from a new device, the add will appear to succeed, but no GTM objects will show up on the unit.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Cleanup all aspects of a GTM link when it is deleted.
595281 : TCP Analytics reports huge goodput numbers
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TCP Analytics reports that 2^32 bytes have been delivered, rather than 0.
Conditions:
When the serverside connection attempt fails.
Impact:
TCP Analytics stats are inaccurate.
Fix:
Handle the failed connection case properly.
595275-1 : Virtual IP address change might cause VIP state to go from GREEN to RED to GREEN
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Virtual IP address change might cause VIP state to go from GREEN to RED to GREEN when pool goes empty.
Conditions:
This occurs when the configuration contains a pool with only one FQDN pool member.
Impact:
VIP can go briefly RED and offline.
Workaround:
Configuring a fallback static IP node or multiple FQDN pool members removes this risk.
595272 : Edge client may show a windows displaying plain text in some cases
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Under captive portal environment, sometimes edge client may show a windows with some plain text content.
Conditions:
Edge client is launched when users machine is inside captive portal network.
Impact:
User may not be able to establish VPN
Workaround:
Authenticate to captive portal using browser and Launch edge client again.
595242 : libxml2 vulnerabilities CVE-2016-3705
Vulnerability Solution Article: K54225343
595231 : libxml2 vulnerabilities CVE-2016-3627 and CVE-2016-3705
Vulnerability Solution Article: K54225343
595227 : SWG Custom Category: unable to have a URL in multiple custom categories
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When configuring a url in multiple categories you receive a validation error message:
May 19 16:13:44 bigip12 err mcpd[8992]: 010717f3:3: Custom category (/Common/category_allow_group2) has invalid URL (http://172.16.20.1/*). Reason: You cannot have the same URL in two or more custom categories. URL used in category (/Common/category_allow_group1).
Conditions:
Configuring the same URL in multiple custom categories.
Impact:
Unable to have the same URL in multiple custom categories, and therefore cannot configure the system to have a URL allowed for one group but not for another.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Validation preventing the configuration of same URL for multiple custom categories has been fixed.
594910-2 : FPS flags no cookie when length check fails
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
You see No Cookie errors for validation errors other than No Cookie.
Conditions:
Malformed component validation cookie
Impact:
No Cookie errors counted when the validation error was not due to No Cookie
Workaround:
No
Fix:
Fixed an issue with No Cookie error counting.
594869-1 : AFM can log DoS attack against the internal mpi interface and not the actual interface
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
While under an attack that matches a DoS profile, BIG-IP may indicate that the interface is the internal mpi interface and not the interface that the attack is happening on.
Conditions:
This can occur in CMP-enabled systems.
Impact:
A valid DoS attack will be misreported
594642 : Stream filter may require large allocations by Tcl leading TMM to core on allocation failure.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Stream filter may require large allocations by Tcl leading TMM to core on allocation failure.
Conditions:
Stream filter is active during low memory situations
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Stream may now be configured to parse xbufs in chunks. This limits the maximum amount of memory required and reduces the chance of an allocation failure.
594496 : PHP Vulnerability CVE-2016-4539
Vulnerability Solution Article: K35240323
594426 : Audit forwarding Radius packets may be rejected by Radius server
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The Accounting-Request packets are missing two required AVPs (Attribute Value Pair), Acct-Session-ID and Acct-Status-Type. Some Radius servers drop Radius Accounting-Requests which are missing these AVPs.
Conditions:
Configured to use audit forwarding with radius and audit messages are not logged on the Radius server.
Impact:
Unable to log audit messages from BIG-IP using audit forwarding.
594388 : Separate signature validation and encryption certificates used by SAML IdP
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In TMOS v.11.3 through v.11.6 releases there is only one certificate which can be configured for SAML SP connector ( apm sso saml-sp-connector, "sp-certificate" attribute).
This certificate is used by Identity Provider both for verifying the signature of incoming ArtifactResolve request and encrypting (if encryption is enabled in IdP settings) of assertion and/or specified SAML attributes.
Conditions:
This restriction does not allow for supporting SP configurations where separate keys/certs are used for encryption and signing.
Impact:
Limited support for external Service Providers that require different certificates for signing/decryption.
Fix:
In version 12.0 it is now possible to configure SP connector objects with two certificates:
sp-certificate < -- certificate used by IdP to validate signatures on messages received from SP.
sp-encryption-certificate < -- certificate used by IdP to encrypt assertion/subject/attributes when encryption is enabled.
===========
Similar symmetrical change was also implemented when BIG-IP is used as SAML SP.
When BIG-IP is used as SAML SP, it is also possible to configure two certificates in AAA SAML object:
sp-certificate < -- certificate used by SP to sign Authentication Requests.
sp-decryption-cert < -- certificate used by SP to decrypt assertions/subject/attributes.
594302 : Connection hangs when processing large compressed responses from server
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When large compressed responses are sent by the server, the connection hangs when trying to send decompressed content to the client.
Conditions:
An LTM policy which enforces decompression for responses is attached to the virtual server. The virtual server also has http compression profile attached to it. Server sends large compressed responses.
Impact:
Connection hangs when trying to process the compressed response in order to send decompressed content to client.
Fix:
The large compressed responses are successfully processed and no connection hangs are seen.
594288 : Access profile configured with SWG Transparent results in memory leak.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Access profile configured with SWG Transparent results in memory leak.
Conditions:
Create an access profile of type SWG Transparent, and assign to a virtual. Run traffic through this virtual.
Impact:
TMM leaks memory.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Fixed the memory leak caused by access filter for SWG transparent use case.
594075 : Sometimes when modifying the firewall rules, the blob does not compile and pccd restarts periodically
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
With pccd.alwaysfromscratch set to true, the blob doesn't compile and pccd restarts periodically when firewall rules are modified.
Conditions:
1. pccd.alwaysfromscratch is set to true (default value is false)
2. Modify some firewall rules.
Impact:
The blob doesn't compile and pccd keeps restarting without loading new rules.
Workaround:
Remove saved blob files in /var/pktclass/ (rm -f /var/pktclass/*) and restart pccd.
593925 : ssh profile should not contain rules that begin and end with spaces (cannot be deleted)
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
When attempting to delete a rule for an ssh profile and committing the changes in the GUI, you get an error: "Operation is not supported on property /security/ssh/profile/~Common~ssh-test/rules."
Conditions:
This occurs if you previously created ssh profile rules that contain spaces in them, such as this example:
create security ssh profile ssh-test actions add { " " } rules add { " " { actions add { " " } identity-users add { " "} identity-groups add { " " } } } auth-info add { " " }
Impact:
Unable to delete the rules
Fix:
You can now delete ssh profile rules that contain spaces for the rules.
593696 : Sync fails when deleting an ssh profile
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
After creating an ssh profile and successfully syncing it to the sync group, you later delete the profile and sync fails with this error on the target device:
"err mcpd[5178]: 01071488:3: Remote transaction for device group /Common/syncme to commit id 6 6285666289815053813 /Common/bigip2.mysite.com 0 failed with error 01071aaf:3: SSH profile: [/Common/ssh1] default actions is required and cannot be removed."
Conditions:
This is triggered when deleting an ssh profile that has been synced in a sync group. Sync group is configured for manual sync. It is not known if automatic sync also exhibits this behavior.
Impact:
Sync fails.
593681 : CSRF doesn't look correctly into relative urls in the location header
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
CSRF does not correctly look into relative URLs in the location header.
Conditions:
There is a relative URL in the location header.
Impact:
in some cases the location header is searched in the configuration as is, and is not found since it doesn't match the wildcard, which can trigger false positive CSRF violations.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
CSRF now correctly looks into relative URLs in the location header.
593597 : iSession can't connect over default gateway pool
Component: Wan Optimization Manager
Symptoms:
iSession can't make wocd (and data) connections if the required route defined as pool.
Conditions:
define WOM BIGIP peer in different subnets with router(s) in the middle. If the route from one BIG-IP to the other is defined as POOL the WOM daemons will be unable to connect.
Impact:
WOM cannot establish an iSession tunnel
Workaround:
This issue can be mitigated if you can use a default gateway IP address instead of a default gateway pool.
Fix:
iSessions can now be established when using a default gateway pool
593530 : In rare cases, connections may fail to expire
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Connections have an idle timeout of 4294967295 seconds.
Conditions:
Any IP (ipother) profile is assigned to virtual server.
Impact:
Connections may linger.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Fixed idle initialization error when using Any IP (ipother) profile.
593447 : BIG-IP TMM iRules vulnerability CVE-2016-5024
Vulnerability Solution Article: K92859602
593409 : [Portal Access] URL normalization is required for some Javascript interfaces
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Several Javascript methods or properties should return normalized URL (i.e. without ports :80 for http: or :443 for https:, without /../ segments of path, etc.).
Current code of Portal Access does not implement this.
Impact:
Web applications could fail with security or logic errors when they expect to get normalized URL from affected Javascript methods or properties.
Behavior Change:
Now not normalized URLs are not included in browser history (only in modern browsers).
593390 : Profile lookup when selected via iRule ('SSL::profile') might cause memory issues.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If an iRule selects a profile using just its name, not the full path, the internal lookup might fail. This might cause a new version of the profile to be instantiated, leading to memory issues.
Conditions:
An iRule calls SSL::profile but does not supply the complete path (e.g., /Common/clientssl); rather, the iRule uses only the profile name.
Impact:
Higher memory usage than necessary.
Workaround:
Always have iRules select profiles using the complete path.
Fix:
If an iRule attempts to select a profile using only its name, the system now prepends the /Common path prior to looking it up, so there is no potential of instantiating another version of the profile, so no memory issue occurs.
593360 : repeated failures on scheduled Signature Update (ASU)
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
This produces errors similar to the following:
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asm_config_server.pl|INFO|Dec 11 04:02:03.697|9905|F5::Sigfile::AutoDownload::call_soap_server,,Calling 'https://10.10.10.10/esd/services/ASMUpdate' for new Signature version.
asm_config_server.pl|ERR|Dec 11 04:02:08.199|9905|F5::Sigfile::AutoDownload::call_soap_server,,SOAP request failed: 500 read failed:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Conditions:
ASM Provisoned
Impact:
repeated failures on scheduled Signature Update (ASU)
Workaround:
change the time the job runs daily and see if that resolves the issue.
\\ First open up the cron job text file \\
# vi /etc/crontab
Change this line -
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
to -
10 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
Save and quit.
This will change the automatic updates to run @4:10 rather than 4:02.
Fix:
We've implemented a retry of a failed scheduled Signature Update (ASU).
593078 : CATEGORY::filetype command may cause tmm to crash and restart
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If an iRule command is created using the CATEGORY::filetype command, the tmm may eventually suffer a failure, and restart.
Conditions:
This can occur when using the CATEGORY::filetype iRule under normal operation.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Fixed a tmm crash in CATEGORY::filetype
593070 : TMM may crash with multiple IP addresses per session
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crash
Conditions:
A session with multiple IP addresses with PCRF communication for dynamic policy management may have a crash credits to a race condition.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Check for timer expiration prior to processing the timer.
592952 : Configuring connection mirroring when using AFM send_to_virtual action
Component: Traffic Classification Engine
Symptoms:
Connection mirroring will not work if enabled only on the virtual server configured as send_to_virtual parameter.
Conditions:
Connection mirroring is only configured on the virtual server referenced by send_to_virtual parameter and not on the original virtual matched by traffic.
Impact:
Connection mirroring will not work
Workaround:
You must configure connection mirroring both on the original virtual server that would be matched by traffic and on the virtual referenced by send_to_virtual command
Fix:
User must configure connection mirroring both on the original virtual server that would be matched by traffic and on the virtual referenced by send_to_virtual command
592871 : Cavium Nitrox PX/III stuck queue diagnostics missing.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Diagnostics tool to investigate rare issue where the Cavium Nitrox PX/III crypto chip gets into a "request queue stuck" situation.
Conditions:
System with Cavium Nitrox PX/III chip(s) which includes the BIG-IP 5xxx, 7xxx, 10xxx, and 12xxx platforms as well as the VIPRIOn B2200 blade, that hits a rare issue which logs a "request queue stuck" message in /var/log/ltm.
Impact:
This tool enables F5 engineers to obtain more data about this problem to help diagnose the issue.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Provides a diagnostics tool. Does not directly mitigate the problem.
592870 : Fast successive MTU changes to IPsec tunnel interface crashes TMM
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Changing IPsec tunnel interface MTU attribute repeatedly in quick succession, TMM cores. This can occur whether or not traffic has flowed through the tunnel.
Conditions:
This occurs when quickly changing the IPsec tunnel interface MTU.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Change IPsec tunnel interface attributes at a rate of speed that allows each configuration modification to complete.
Fix:
TMM no longer cores if users quickly and repeatedly change interface attributes (for example, the MTU interface attribute).
592868 : Rewrite may crash processing HTML tag with HTML entity in attribute value
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If HTML page contains HTML entities in attribute values, rewrite may crash processing this page.
Conditions:
HTML tag like this:
<script src=" " type="text/javascript"></script>
Impact:
Web application may not work correctly.
Workaround:
In most cases HTML entities can be replaced by appropriate characters by iRule.
Fix:
Now rewrite correctly handles HTML entities in attribute values.
592854 : Protocol version set incorrectly on serverssl renegotiation
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If the BIG-IP serverssl profile sends a new ClientHello request to renegotiate SSL, the protocol version will be set to 0. This will cause renegotiation to fail.
Conditions:
ServerSSL profile configured on a virtual server, and BIG-IP initiates a renegotiation.
Impact:
Protocol field is invalid (0), and the server will reset the connection.
Fix:
Fixed a reset issue with SSL renegotiation in the serverssl profile.
592784-1 : Compression stalls, does not recover, and compression facilities cease.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Compression stalls, does not recover, and compression facilities may cease.
Conditions:
A device error of any kind, or requests that result in the device reporting an error (for example, attempting to decompress an invalid compression stream).
Impact:
In general, compression stops altogether. Under some circumstances, compression requests may end up routed to zlib (software compression), but generally the SSL hardware accelerator card does not correctly report that it is unavailable when it stalls.
Workaround:
Select the softwareonly compression provider by running the following tmsh command: tmsh modify sys db compression.strategy value softwareonly.
Fix:
The compression device driver now attempts to recover after a failure. If it still cannot recover, new compression requests will be assigned to zlib (software) for compression.
592707 : Validation against routes where the network route-domain does not match VLAN route-domain
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Kernel ioctl error when creating static route, "ioctl failed: No such device"
Conditions:
When creating static route where the network route-domain is not the same as the VLAN route-domain
Impact:
Prevent the creation of the static route.
Workaround:
Use the correct route-domain when specifying the network for the static route entry.
Fix:
When creating static route using a VLAN that have non-default route-domain, validation will either correct the network route-domain - when it is unspecified, or throw validation error when specified route-domain did not match VLAN route-domain.
592700 : iControl SOAP method System.Failover.get_peer_address might return incorrect value.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
iControl SOAP method System.Failover.get_peer_address returns no results.
In DSC sync (11.0.0 or later), there is no longer a concept of a 'secondary peer address', and one can connect with more than one other device, so this method no longer can always return acceptable values. Therefore, the alternate method Management.Device.get_configsync_address is recommended.
Conditions:
Any 11.0.0 or higher platform with CMI configured.
Impact:
If the iControl SOAP method System.Failover.get_peer_address method is being used to determine whether sync is configured between two devices, the system might falsely treat the device as a standalone.
Workaround:
Use the the following method instead: Management.Device.get_configsync_address.
Fix:
The iControl SOAP method System.Failover.get_peer_address has been immediately deprecated. Use the method Management.Device.get_configsync_address instead.
592699-2 : IPv6 data pulled from the BIG-IP system via HTTPS, SCP, SSH, DNS or SMTP performance
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
IPv6 data pulled from the BIG-IP system via HTTPS, SCP, SSH, DNS or SMTP might encounter significant performance impacts when initiated over a BIG-IP data port using IPv6.
Conditions:
-- Protocols: HTTPS, SCP, SSH, DNS, SMTP.
-- IPv6.
Note: Management port is not impacted.
Impact:
Performance impact pulling data over affected ports from the BIG-IP over IPv6.
BIG-IQ performance is impacted trying to manage BIG-IP devices over IPv6.
Workaround:
Disable TSO for IPv6 at the command line by running the following command: ethtool -K tmm tso off.
Note: This command must be run each time after reboot.
Fix:
The issue has been corrected, so that there is no performance impact pulling data over affected ports using HTTPS, SCP, SSH, DNS or SMTP from the BIG-IP over IPv6, and there is no BIG-IQ performance issue managing BIG-IP devices over IPv6.
592682 : TCP: connections may stall or be dropped
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TCP connections stall or get dropped.
Conditions:
Under some network conditions especially with rateshaper enabled TCP connection could stall and ultimately get reset.
Impact:
This usually happens with rateshaper or BWC enabled. Rarely could also happen with very lossy networks.
Fix:
Properly manage re-transmissions after a tail drop by not not doing the exponential back-off. Reset the re-transmit timer for every partial ack received after a tail drop.
592620 : iRule validation does not catch incorrect 'after' syntax
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
iRule validation does not catch iRule with incorrect 'after' syntax, allowing an invalid iRule to be saved.
Conditions:
iRule with incorrect 'after' syntax. For example "after 5000 periodic" should be "after 5000 -periodic" (with a hyphen)
Impact:
Traffic handled by the iRule fails, generating the Tcl error 'invalid command name 'periodic' while executing 'periodic LB::reselect''.
Workaround:
Correct the syntax error.
592591 : Deleting access profile prompts for apply access policy for other untouched access profiles
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
After deleting an access profile, the 'Apply Access Policy' link shows up and the status flags for some other untouched access profiles turn yellow. Also, there are APM log messages indicating that the configurations for those untouched access profile have been changed.
Conditions:
If an access profile containing macros is copied on the admin UI and is deleted subsequently.
Impact:
There is no change to the access profiles that are affected by the deletion. Admin can go ahead to click "Apply Access Policy" link to make the link disappear.
592504 : False positive illegal length violation can appear
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
A false positive illegal length violation.
Conditions:
A chunked request where the request length is more than half of the configured max request length.
Impact:
False positive illegal length violation.
Workaround:
Configure a higher max request length violation.
Fix:
Fixed a false positive request length violation.
592497 : Idle timeout ineffective for FIN_WAIT_2 when server-side expired and HTTP in fallback state.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
While passing normal traffic, CPU utilization of one or more tmms suddenly goes to 100% as viewed by top and remains there indefinitely.
Conditions:
Idle timeout for tcp flows in FIN_WAIT_2.
Impact:
There is a rare occurrence in which tmm might result in 100% CPU busy.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
This release honors the idle timeout in FIN_WAIT_2 when server-side expired and HTTP in fallback state.
592414 : IE11 and Chrome throw "Access denied" during access to any generic window property after document.write() into its parent has been performed
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
IE11 and Chrome throw "Access denied" during access to any generic window property after document.write() into its parent has been performed from dynamically generated child.
Conditions:
Browsers: IE11 and Chrome
When: After document.write() into its parent has been performed from dynamically generated child.
Impact:
Web application malfunction.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Fixed.
592352 : Launching RDP resources of "Native" type requires downloading .rdp files which are not cleaned automatically
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
For now, in order to launch a native RDP resource, user needs to download an automatically generated .rdp file which is later used for launching RDP client.
Since MS RDP client doesn't support cleaning those files up automatically, users should bear in mind that those files may accrue in their "Downloads" folder over time.
Conditions:
Launching native RDP resource.
Impact:
Downloaded .rdp files are not automatically removed by RDP client.
Workaround:
Remove .rdp files manually from "Downloads" folder from time to time.
592320 : ePVA does not offload UDP when pva-offload-state set to establish in BIG-IP 12.1.0 and 12.1.1
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When a fastL4 profile's pva-offload-state set to establish (default is embryonic), the corresponding UDP virtual server using that profile won't offload UDP traffic and causes performance degradation.
Conditions:
This issue is introduced during v12.0.0 development and only impacts v12.1.0 and v12.1.1 releases.
A fastL4 UDP virtual server is using a fastL4 profile that has pva-offload-state set to establish.
Impact:
Performance degradation.
Workaround:
Use default setting for pva-offload-state of embryonic for fastL4 profile.
Fix:
With the fix in 12.1.2 and 13.0.0, ePVA will load UDP traffic when pva-offload-state set to establish.
592274 : RAT-Detection alerts sent with incorrect duration details
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
If a remote access trojan (RAT) detection alert is thrown immediately upon initialization, the timestamp of the alert will be incorrect.
Impact:
False positives
Workaround:
n/a
Fix:
When generating RAT Detected alert within 5 seconds from page load, actualCounter in alert details is lower than 5 seconds for example:
"timeToResetCounter":5000,"actualCounter":4296
592113-4 : tmm core on the standby unit with dos vectors configured
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
On the standby unit with mirrored connections configured, uninitialized dos_vectors may cause core dump
Conditions:
HA setup, mirroring enabled on a virtual that has dos vectors configured
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
592070 : DHCP server connFlow when created based on the DHCP client connFlow does not have the traffic group ID copied
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
Variables in the flow context when stored in the sessionDB cannot be shared since the traffic groups of the server and client flows are different.
Conditions:
DHCP virtual created in a non-local traffic group.
Impact:
Variable sharing in the TCL context will not work.
Workaround:
Modify SysDb variable "Tmm.SessionDB.match_ha_unit" to disable the use of traffic-group ID while accessing the sessionDB.
Fix:
Copy the traffic group from client to server connFlows such that both connFlows have the same traffic group.
592001 : CVE-2016-4073 PHP vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Solution Article: K64412100
591918 : ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3718
Vulnerability Solution Article: K61974123
591908 : ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3717
Vulnerability Solution Article: K29154575
591894 : ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3715
Vulnerability Solution Article: K10550253
591881 : ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3716
Vulnerability Solution Article: K25102203
591840 : encryption_key in access config is NULL in whitelist
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
encryption_key in access config is NULL sometime when applying 404 whitelist action and will result in TMM crash.
Conditions:
All the following must be true:
- Access policy action resulted in a "not found".
- The session corresponding to above action must be expired.
- FIPS platform.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Data required to serve a "not found" action is retrieved and made available early so that such responses can be served correctly.
591828 : For unmatched connection TCP RST may not be sent for data packet
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
When AFM is enabled TCP RST will not be sent to client when client sends data packet to BIG-IP.
Conditions:
When AFM is enabled and in TCP profile , timeout of reset is disabled, after connection times out RST wont be sent. But if BIG-IP receives data packet bigip does not send TCP RST.
Impact:
When client does not receive TCP RST for data packet sent for unmatched connection , generally timed out, Client keeps retrying, but BIG-IP shouldn't send TCP RST to all the packets received for unmatched connections.
Workaround:
Reset on timeout option can be enabled which will send TCP RST to client when connection times out. But if the BIG-IP reboots, client wont get TCP RST.
591819 : Upgrade script for SSO log-level★
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
In 12.1.0 and previous versions, SSO SAML and SSO FormBasedV2 object has log-level attribute, which has been replaced by an apm log config object.
Conditions:
If previous configuration contains SSO SAML objects or SSO FormBasedV2 objects upgraded to versions later than 12.1.0.
Impact:
After upgrade, no apm log config object is created for the SSO object.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The upgrade script will now create apm log config object to replace log-level. The publisher's destination for it will be local-syslog. SSO log-level in the new apm log config object will remain the same. The new apm log config's name will be sso-log-setting-<log level>, <log level> can be Debug, Notice, Alert and so on. Warning Message 'apm log-setting is created as the log setting for sso objects. Access : ' will show in /var/log/ltm.
Behavior Change:
The Upgrade script for SSO log-level will create apm log config object to replace log-level. The publisher's destination for it will be local-syslog. SSO log-level in the new apm log config object will remain the same. The new apm log config's name will be sso-log-setting-<log level>, <log level> can be Debug, Notice, Alert and so on. Warning Message 'apm log-setting is created as the log setting for sso objects. Access : ' will show in /var/log/ltm. There is no impact to traffic; the upgrade will automatically create the necessary log config object for you.
591806 : ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2016-3714
Vulnerability Solution Article: K03151140
591767-1 : NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-1547
Vulnerability Solution Article: K11251130
591733 : Save on Auto-Sync is missing from the configuration utility.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The option to configure save-on-auto-sync is missing in the Device Management GUI.
Conditions:
Devices configured in a DSC configuration.
Automatic with Full or Incremental Sync is enabled.
You attempt to configure the save-on-auto-sync option from the GUI.
Impact:
You will need to have TMSH access to the BIG-IP system to perform this task.
Workaround:
You will need to have TMSH access to the BIG-IP system to perform this task.
Fix:
This release adds per-device-group save_on_auto_sync flag to GUI: flag now shows in GUI and correctly saves.
GUI: The "Sync Type" option in the GUI must be set to "Automatic with Full/Incremental Sync" in order for "Save on Auto-Sync" option to show.
Behavior Change:
Beginning in version 11.5.0, the /cm trust-domain 'save-on-auto-sync' attribute is no longer configured as part of the trust-domain, but is part of the configuration of a device group. With this change, the option to set that attribute becomes available in the GUI on the condition that the "Sync Type" option is set to "Automatic with Full/Incremental Sync".
591666 : TMM crash in DNS processing on TCP virtual with no available pool members
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crash when processing requests to a DNS virtual server.
Conditions:
The issue can occur if a TCP DNS virtual receives a request when no pool members are available to service the request and a DNS iRule is suspended due to previous requests.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Mitigation is to ensure at least one pool member is available whenever the DNS virtual is processing traffic, or to avoid iRule commands that can suspend processing.
Ensure datagram LB mode is enabled on UDP DNS virtuals.
Fix:
Product corrected to prevent crash when there are no available members.
591659 : Server shutdown is propagated to client after X-Cnection: close transformation.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Server shutdown is propagated to client after X-Cnection: close transformation.
Conditions:
In OneConnect configurations, when a server's maximum number of keep-alives is exceeded, the server closes the connection between itself and the BIG-IP system. This Connection: Close is transformed to an X-Cnection: close and sent to the Client along with a TCP FIN.
Impact:
Client side connections are closed by the BIG-IP system too early, causing subsequent requests to be dropped.
Workaround:
Set the OneConnect profile "Maximum Reuse" value to 2 below the value of the pool members max keep-alive setting. This forces OneConnect to close the connection before the pool member.
Fix:
Server shutdown is no longer propagated to client after X-Cnection: close transformation, so client side connections are now kept open by the BIG-IP system as expected, and subsequent requests are no longer dropped.
591590 : APM policy sync results are not persisted on target devices
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Policy sync results, including profile, sync folder, new partition, statuses, history are not persisted on target devices after sync, when there are no LSO resolution.
Conditions:
- Create an APM policy with no LSO to resolve, or have an APM policy that has LSO resolved by previous sync
- Start a policy sync
Impact:
Sync results including the policy profiles won't be persisted so when the bigip restarts, all the sync data won't be lost.
Workaround:
Run tmsh command to save config:
tmsh save sys config
Fix:
Policy sync result will be persisted on target devices so even when those devices restart, the data will still be there.
591495 : VCMP guests sflow agent can crash due to duplicate vlan interface indices
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When a VCMP guest uses sflow, the sflow agent will crash when it tries to add a row to its internal data structure and finds the key already exists for some other entry.
Conditions:
The problem is specific to BIG-IP i-Series platforms (i5200, i7200, i10200) with VCMP guests of 4 or more cores. 8 cores causes it all the time.
Impact:
sflow agent will crash.
Fix:
Make sure the allocated interface index for a vlan is not already taken by another interface object.
591476 : Stuck nitrox crypto queue can erroneously be reported
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
In some cases, a stuck crypto queue can be erroneously detected on Nitrox systems (Nitrox PX and Nitrox 3). When the tmm/crypto stats are examined, they show no queued requests. The message "Device error: crypto codec cn-crypto-0 queue is stuck." will appear in the ltm log file.
Conditions:
Nitrox based system performing SSL under heavy load.
Impact:
Device errors reported in logs and crypto HA action is taken, possibly resulting in failing over.
Workaround:
Modify the crypto queue timeout value to 0 to prevent timeouts.
tmsh modify sys db crypto.queue.timeout value 0
Fix:
The Nitrox crypto driver will now only examine requests in the hardware DMA ring to detect a stuck queue.
591455 : NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-2516
Vulnerability Solution Article: K24613253
591447 : PHP vulnerability CVE-2016-4070
Vulnerability Solution Article: K42065024
591438 : PHP vulnerability CVE-2015-8865
Vulnerability Solution Article: K54924436
591437 : Unexpected/incorrect max CPU utilization statistics/performance values.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
CLI command 'tmsh show sys performance system' sometimes shows an incorrect (lower) 'Max CPU Utilization' value.
Conditions:
This occurs when the BIG-IP system experiences occasional large spikes in CPU Utilization.
Impact:
Incorrect statistics reporting.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
CPU utilization data processing has been modified to more accurately report the maximum sampled value.
591351 : False positive browser automation alert
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
False positive browser automation alert containing details: "Cshui detected unknown (not human behavior)".
Conditions:
FPS automatic transaction detection feature activated.
Impact:
False positive browser automation alert containing details: "Cshui detected unknown (not human behavior)".
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Cshui result is now read correctly.
591343 : SSL::sessionid output is not consistent with the sessionid field of ServerHello message.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
SSL::sessionid output is not consistent with the sessionid field of ServerHello message. This is mostly cosmetic, but if an iRule depends upon the outcome, the result can be unexpected.
Conditions:
This occurs when using an iRule to inspect the session ID on server-side SSL.
Impact:
The values do not match. SSL::sessionid outputs the wrong sessionid.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The returned session ID in both the SERVERSSL_SERVERHELLO and SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE events is the one presented by the SSL server.
591328 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2106
Vulnerability Solution Article: K36488941
591327 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2106
Vulnerability Solution Article: K36488941
591325 : OpenSSL (May 2016) CVE-2016-2108,CVE-2016-2107,CVE-2016-2105,CVE-2016-2106,CVE-2016-2109
Vulnerability Solution Article: K75152412
591268 : VS hostname is not resolvable when DNS Relay proxy is installed and running under certain conditions
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
VS hostname is not resolvable when DNS Relay proxy is installed and running under certain conditions, it depends on client machine configuration. Symptom: negative record in windows DNS cache, can be verified by running ipconfig /displaydns
Conditions:
Specific client machine configuration
Impact:
VS hostname is not resolvable:
- 'Refresh' of webtop causes unavailable webtop
- Recurring check report may fail due to DNS resolve issue
Workaround:
* Clean windows DNS cache: ipconfig /flushdns
or
* Disable DNS Relay proxy service
Fix:
Now DNS Relay proxy service cleans up DNS cache after initialization mitigating issue described
591246 : Unable to launch View HTML5 connections in non-zero route domain virtual servers
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Currently APM always attempts to uze the RTDom 0 when VMware View HTML5 client is launched.
This doesn't work with the virtual servers in non-zero route domains.
Conditions:
APM configured as a PCoIP proxy on a VS in non-zero route domain.
Impact:
You cannot use virtuals in non-zero route domains if they need VMware View HTML5 client functionality
Fix:
APM now uses the proper route domain from the virtual server to handle VMware View HTML5 client connections.
591139-1 : TMM QAT segfault after zlib/QAT compression conflation.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM can segfault during prolonged mixture of software and hardware accelerated compression.
Conditions:
Continuous and prolonged mixture of software and hardware accelerated compression.
Impact:
TMM segfaults.
Workaround:
Disable hardware accelerated compression with:
tmsh modify sys db compression.strategy value speed
Fix:
TMM QAT compression added pointer-hardening for compression context.
591124 : gtmd core while adding a new GTM to an existing sync group.
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
While adding a new GTM to an existing sync group, the new system's configuration conflicts with configurations on the other GTM systems in the sync group and causes gtmd to core on the unit being added.
Conditions:
Adding a new GTM to sync group. Other, more specific conditions are not known. That makes this rarely encountered, intermittent issue difficult to predict and reproduce.
Impact:
New GTM unit being added generated a gtmd core file. Configs on other production GTM devices in the network might also be compromised, and might need to be restored from backup. The system might produce a core dump at the moment of sync group corruption.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Although the exact cause is unknown, the gtmd process has been modified to more gracefully handle the condition that generated the gtmd core while adding a new GTM to an existing sync group.
591117 : APM ACL construction may cause TMM to core if TMM is out of memory
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
During ACL construction, TMM send queries regarding assigned ACL information. If the reply message contains error message of out-of-memory, TMM was not handling this error message properly, and cause TMM to core.
Conditions:
BIG-IP is extremely loaded and out of memory.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
When handling the error reply message of out-of-memory during ACL construction, TMM can handle it without causing TMM to crash.
591113 : CSRF injection leading to blank page
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
When CSRF JS is injected, a blank page is seen.
Conditions:
When CSRF JS is injected.
This page has has lots of iframes with the query parameters.
Impact:
Viewing the site causes some pages to show up blank.
Workaround:
Bypassing or disabling ASM for URL /apps/consumer/ITS/its_Lite/UpperFrame_Lite.jsp appears to fix the issue.
Fix:
Added new internal csrf_rewrite_frames_urls (default disabled) - if enabled bd will add the csrt token to the frame's src attributes when it has the query separator and will do it while response parsing.
591104 : ospfd cores due to an incorrect debug statement.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
ospfd cores due to an incorrect debug statement.
Conditions:
This occurs in NSSA configs when ASE OSPF debugging enabled in imish (for example, by running the command: debug ospf route ase). Affected configuration commands are (in imish):
debug ospf all.
debug ospf route.
debug ospf route ase.
Impact:
ospfd might crash, interrupting dynamic routing.
Workaround:
Do not enable debugging in ospf that includes 'route ase'.
Fix:
ospfd no longer crashes when debugging is enabled in imish.
591042 : OpenSSL vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Solution Article: K23230229
590938 : The CMI rsync daemon may fail to start
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
CMI starts an instance of the rsync daemon used for synchronizing file objects. If this daemon is not running, but left its PID file, then it will not restart.
Conditions:
The rsync daemon failed unexpectedly.
Impact:
Sync of file objects will fail with an error like this:
01070712:3: Caught configuration exception (0), Failed to sync files...
Workaround:
Delete the PID file, "/var/run/rsyncd-cmi.pid". Then look up the configsync-ip of the local device and run "rsync-cmi start 1.2.3.4", replacing 1.2.3.4 with the current device's configsync-ip.
590904 : New HA Pair created using serial cable failover only will remain Active/Active
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
After creating a new sync-failover device group without network failover enabled, both devices remain Active.
Conditions:
Create a new sync-failover device-group without enabling network failover.
Impact:
Both device in the HA pair will be Active, which is unlikely to pass traffic successfully.
Workaround:
After adding the 2nd device to the sync-failover group, restart sod with "bigstart restart sod" on both devices.
Fix:
After creating the sync-failover group with without network failover configured, but a serial failover cable installed, one of the devices becomes Standby and the other remains Active.
590851 : "never log" IPs are still reported to AVR
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
IP addresses marked as "never log" are reported to AVR regardless of the flag
Conditions:
Always
Impact:
Extra, unwanted logging for IP addresses flagged as "never log"
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
N/A
590820 : Applications that use appendChild() or similar JavaScript functions to build UI might experience slow performance in Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Applications that use appendChild() or similar JavaScript functions to build UI might experience slow performance in Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.
Conditions:
Intense usage of JavaScript methods such as: appendChild(), insertBefore(), and other, similar JavaScript methods, in a customer's web application code.
Impact:
Very low web application performance when using Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Applications that use appendChild() or similar JavaScript functions to build UI now experience expected performance in Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.
590805 : Active Rules page displays a different time zone.
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
Active Rules page displays a different time zone.
Conditions:
When Active Rules page is loaded after the BIG-IP system timezone has changed.
Impact:
GUI shows incorrect timezone.
Workaround:
Run the following command after changing BIG-IP timezone: bigstart restart tomcat.
Fix:
Active Rules page now shows the correct timezone after the BIG-IP system timezone has changed.
590795 : tmm crash when loading default signatures or updating classification signature★
Component: Traffic Classification Engine
Symptoms:
When upgrading classification signatures or downgrading to the default signatures, tmm will crash.
Conditions:
This occurs when loading updated classification signatures on versions 12.1.0 and 12.1.1.
Impact:
tmm will crash during the load. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Fixed a crash when loading classification signatures.
590734 : Configuration of Timeout in AAA LDAP/AD Servers
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
The Timeout configured in AAA LDAP/AD Servers controls only the network connection timeout and not operation timeout. The operation timeout is hardcoded to 180 seconds.
Conditions:
Configure a Timeout value in AAA LDAP/AD Servers.
Impact:
If the network connection has no issue, then it could take up to 180 seconds for the LDAP operation to fail.
Workaround:
No workaround. This is function as designed.
590608 : Alert is not redirected to alert server when unseal fails
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
Alert is not redirected to the alert server when unseal fails and iRule is enabled.
Conditions:
1. Unsealing alert failure.
2. iRule enabled.
Impact:
Alert is not redirected to the alert server and FPS returns 404 response.
Workaround:
Disable iRule.
Fix:
FPS now correctly redirects the alert.
590601 : BIG-IP as SAML SP does not redirect users to original request URI after authentication is completed
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
After end-user successfully performs SP initiated SAML SSO with a original request URI other then "/", SP will redirect user back to '/' as landing URI.
Conditions:
BIG-IP is used as SAML SP and no relay state is configured on either SP or IdP
Impact:
User is not redirected to original request URI.
Workaround:
Workaround provided below works when first client request to BIG-IP as SP is 'GET'. This workaround is not applicable when first client request is 'POST'.
SP object can be configured with relay state pointing to the landing URI: %{session.server.landinguri}
After successful authentication, end-user will be redirected to the landing URI (reflected back by IdP in the relay-state).
Fix:
SAML SSO requests will now be redirected to the original request URI.
590578 : False positive "URL error" alerts on URLs with GET parameters
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
False-positive URL Error alerts are sometimes generated on URLs with GET parameters.
Conditions:
Use of URLs with GET parameters.
Impact:
Unwanted alerts in alert server.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Hash calculation is done on slightly different URL inputs, causing mismatch.
590428 : The "ACCESS::session create" iRule command does not work
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When the "ACCESS::session create" iRule command is used with an APM virtual, the command does not resume properly and causing the sessions to disconnect/hang.
Conditions:
APM virtual configured with an iRule that includes "ACCESS::session create" iRule command.
Impact:
APM virtual won't function correctly.
Workaround:
The "ACCESS::session create" iRule command should be removed from the iRule attached to the virtual.
Fix:
Updated the session DB calls to include req_id parameter so that the TCL context gets updated/saved and used upon resume.
590399 : Unnecessary logging during startup: 'Unable to connect to MCPD' and Errdefsd is starting'.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Unnecessary logging during startup: err errdefsd[5106]: 01940019:3: Unable to connect to MCPD, will try again in 30 seconds. err errdefsd[5106]: 0194001d:3: Errdefsd is starting. Old shared memory arena is now deprecated.
Conditions:
This occurs during system startup.
Impact:
No to low impact. This message is benign, and you can safely ignore it.
Workaround:
None needed.
Fix:
This release fixes the unnecessary benign error message logging that occurred during startup: 'Unable to connect to MCPD' and Errdefsd is starting'.
590345 : ACCESS policy running iRule event agent intermittently hangs
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If you are using iRule event agent on the 12.1.0 release, you may see an intermittent Access Policy execution hang. The hang occurs during the execution of ACCESS::policy agent_id.
Conditions:
iRule event agent is configured.
iRule uses ACCESS_POLICY_EVENT_AGENT event
Within this event, ACCESS::policy agent_id command is used.
Impact:
Policy execution intermittently hangs.
Workaround:
Please use this command:
ACCESS::session data get {session.custom_event.id}
Fix:
A hang related to the use of ACCESS::policy agent_id has been fixed.
590244 : False alert cn decryption failure log when peer (client) drops the TCP session during decryption.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
False alert cn decryption failure log when peer (client) drops the TCP session during decryption when crypto process is canceled intentionally. ERROR: ssl_cn_decrypt_fin_cb:1985: fin decryption failed
Conditions:
This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met:
1. Using a BIG-IP system with a Cavium Nitrox SSL accelerator card, and the handshake goes through the hardware path (Cavium Nitrox).
Note: Not all the handshake instances are handled by the hardware; some run the software path. Whether the hardware path is used depends on the SSL protocol and cipher selection.
2. The client (usually the Chrome browser) connects to the BIG-IP system's virtual server but immediately drop the connection (for instance, pressingCtrl-f5 very quickly). The error appears when this termination happens to interrupt the hardware decryption process.
Impact:
The crypto process is canceled intentionally, so there should be no error.
Workaround:
This typically does not cause problem because the client (browsers) could have dropped the connection or restarted another session.
Fix:
The system no longer posts an error message that indicates an incomplete connection decryption if the connection decryption was already canceled. This is correct behavior.
590156 : Connections to an APM virtual server may be reset and fail on appliance and VE platforms.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
APM connections failing when mac masquerade is in use and source-port preserve-strict is enabled on the APM virtual server.
Conditions:
The traffic-group has mac-masquerade configured and source-port preserve-strict is in use on the APM virtual server
Impact:
Connections to an APM virtual server may be reset and fail on appliance and VE platforms.
Workaround:
Disable either mac-masquerade or source-port preserve-strict (or both)
590122 : Standard TLS version rollback detection for TLSv1 or earlier might need to be relaxed to interoperate with clients that violate TLS specification.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Standard TLS rollback detection for TLSv1 or earlier clients might be too strict for clients that do not comply with RFC 2246 and later. These clients may require 'tls-rollback-bug' option set.
Conditions:
Standard behaviour of TLS clients is to use ClientHello.client_version in pre-master secret (PMS).
Some clients, incorrectly, might use negotiated version in PMS.
Impact:
Failed TLS handshake.
Workaround:
Configure the BIG-IP client SSL profile to include tls-rollback-bug, using a command similar to the following:
create /ltm profile client-ssl xxx ciphers DEFAULT options { tls-rollback-bug }.
Fix:
Added support for tls-rollback-bug
Behavior Change:
This release provides improved support for "TLS rollback bug workaround" feature described in Managing SSL Traffic :: Configuring workarounds in the LTM documentation on AskF5. ([1] link below). The value is set by existing tls-rollback-bug option, using the command described in [2], below.
This is an existing option.
When this option is enabled in clientssl profile, RSA-only ciphersuites will have relaxed treatment of the version field set by the SSL/TLS client as part of the sequence of bytes encrypted to the server RSA key, called pre-master secret (PMS).
With the option enabled, PMS can contain either ClientHello.client_version, or negotiated version. Standard behaviour of TLS clients is to use ClientHello.client_version in PMS.
[1] https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm_configuration_guide_10_1/ltm_ssl_profiles.html.
[2] create /ltm profile client-ssl xxx ciphers DEFAULT options { tls-rollback-bug }.
590074 : Wrong value for TCP connections closed measure
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
In TCP analytics, the measure 'connections closed' displays the wrong value.
Conditions:
TMM_API debug enabled.
Impact:
Wrong value displayed.
Workaround:
Do not turn on debug printing.
Fix:
Memory corruption found and fixed. All debug printing organized together at the beginning of the function.
589862 : HA Grioup percent-up display value is truncated, not rounded
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The value displayed in "show sys ha-group detail" and "list sys ha-group" is shown as only the integer portion of the actual percent-up value.
Conditions:
When the number of "up" members in an HA Group results in a percent-up value that is not a whole number, the displayed value is truncated, not rounded.
Impact:
Incorrect display of the percent-up value. The score contribution is correct, and displayed rounded properly.
Fix:
The percent-up value is correctly rounded before display.
589606 : CSRF enabled within iframe request causes to unpredictable behavior on a website.
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
The csrf script changes the frame/iframe source attribute. When it happens the browser issue a request, as a result for each frame on a page 2 requests are being sent, the first is the original request when the frame is loaded and the second is when the csrf script changes the frame source attribute.
Conditions:
Enable ASM CSRF
Request a page with an iframe or frameset
Impact:
Viewing the site causes some pages to show up blank.
Workaround:
Bypassing or disabling ASM for URL appears to fix the issue.
589400 : With Nagle disabled, TCP does not send all of xfrags with size greater than MSS.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
With Nagle disabled, TCP does not send all of xfrags with size greater than MSS.
Conditions:
Congestion window is small relative to message size; abc is enabled; also might manifest when serverside MTU is greater than clientside MTU.
Impact:
Additional connection latency.
Workaround:
Enabling proxy-mss on the serverside TCP profile significantly reduces incidence of this problem in observed cases.
If init-cwnd is low, raising it might also help.
Disabling abc can also reduce the problem, but might have other negative network implications.
Fix:
Incoming packets are now pulled more aggressively into the send buffer, if there are no negative implications for CPU performance.
589379 : ZebOS adds and deletes an extraneous LSA after deleting a route that matches a summary suppression route.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In a configuration with a summary route that is added to ZebOS and configured with 'not-advertise', when deleting the exactly matching route, ospfd sends LSA route with age 1, then immediately sends update with age 3600.
Conditions:
OSPF using route health injection for default route.
Impact:
No functional impact. The extraneous LSA is immediately aged out.
Workaround:
Configure a static default route in imish instead of using RHI for the default route.
Fix:
ZebOS no longer adds and deletes an extraneous LSA after deleting a route that matches a summary suppression route.
589318 : Clicking 'Customize All' checkbox does not work.
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
Clicking 'Customize All' in Safari browser does not check the checkboxes below, and the settings remain grayed out.
Conditions:
Provision and license FPS.
Impact:
FPS child profile page.
Workaround:
Use tmsh.
Fix:
Clicking 'Customize All' checkbox in Safari browser now checks the checkboxes below and changes the state of the cosponsoring settings.
589256 : DNSSEC NSEC3 records with different type bitmap for same name.
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
For a delegation from a secure zone to an insecure zone, BIG-IP returns different type bitmaps in the NSEC3 record depending on the query type. This causes BIND9's validator to reject the secure delegation to the insecure zone.
Conditions:
For insecure delegations, our DNSSEC implementation does not support the DS record. Those queries are forwarded to the backend, BIND if selected as fallback. Without ZSK/KSK for an insecure child zone, BIND responds SOA which we dynamically sign.
Impact:
DNS lookups may fail if BIND9's validator rejects the delegation.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
If response is a NODATA from either the proxy or a transparent cache, and the query is a DS, set the types bitmap to NS.
589223 : TMM crash and core dump when processing SSL protocol alert.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crash and core dump when processing SSL protocol alert.
Conditions:
During SSL handshake, if the server sends protocol Alert to the BIG-IP system, TMM might crash.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
A problem of TMM restarting when processing SSL protocol alert has been fixed.
589083 : TMSH and iControl REST: When logged in as a remote user who has the admin role, cannot save config because of permission errors.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When a remotely authenticated user who has the admin role uses TMSH or iControl to save the configuration, the operation fails because of permission errors.
Using iControl, the system posts an error similar to the following: Error processing request for URI:http://localhost:8110/mgmt/tm/sys/config
{code:400,message: Can't create tmsh temp directory \"/config/.config.backup\" Permission denied, errorStack:[]}.
Using TMSH (e.g., running the command: tmsh save sys config), the system posts an error similar to the following:
Can't create tmsh temp directory "/config/.config.backup" Permission denied
Conditions:
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
-- Remote Authentication is configured.
-- User is logged in as a remote user who has the admin role.
-- Using TMSH or iControl for remotely authenticated user operations.
Impact:
Cannot save the configuration.
Workaround:
Use one of the following workarounds:
-- Use the GUI to save the configuration.
-- Have a locally authenticated user with admin role save the configuration.
Fix:
When a remotely authenticated user who has the admin role uses TMSH or iControl to save the configuration, the operation now completes as expected, without permission errors.
589039 : Clearing masquerade MAC results in unexpected link-local self IPs.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
BigIP advertises fe80::200:ff:fe00:0 as a selfip
Conditions:
masquerade MAC is from non-zero to zero
Impact:
May cause IP conflicts between HA devices
Workaround:
Restart tmm after setting masquerade MAC to none
Fix:
Do not advertise invalid selfip on clearing masquerade MAC
589006 : SSL does not cancel pending sign request before the handshake times out or is canceled.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When TMM has many SSL handshake, for ephemeral key, SSL does not sign for ServerKeyExchange message. Then it is possible that sign request is pending on crypto SSL queue. Even the handshake is timeout or canceled, the sign request is still in the queue. This might cause memory accumulation.
Conditions:
When TMM has many SSL handshake, for ephermal key, SSL should sign for ServerKeyExchange message.
Impact:
Even if the handshake times out or canceled, the sign request is still in the queue. This might cause memory accumulation.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
SSL now cancels sign pending request before it times out or is canceled.
588959 : Standby box may crash or behave abnormally
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM crashes on the standby unit
Conditions:
It is not known the conditions that cause this, and has been seen very rarely.
Impact:
Tmm on the standby device crashes. Memory utilization before the crash can appear to be unusually high.
588888 : Empty URI rewriting is not done as required by browser.
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Empty URI must be rewritten at server side and client side rewriter in the same way: as empty URI (all browsers treat this type of URI in a specific way).
Conditions:
A tag with an empty 'src' or 'href' attribute.
Impact:
Web application malfunction, such as incorrect or unexpected behavior or error messages.
Workaround:
Use an application-specific iRule that modifies the empty URI.
-- For example, for JavaScript methods such as setAttribute(), an iRule should change this:
'F5_Invoke_setAttribute(o, "src", uri)'
to this:
'(uri=="")?o.setAttribute("src", uri):F5_Invoke_setAttribute(o, "src", uri)'.
-- As another example, for JavaScript methods such as write(str), writeln(str), innerHTML=str, outerHTML=str, and similar methods, if str contains <img src="" ... >, the iRule must remove the src attribute.
Fix:
This release fixes the issue of rewriting the empty URI the same way at the server side and client side: as empty URI (all browsers treat this type of URI in a specific way).
588879 : apmd crash under rare conditions with LDAP in BIGIP 12.0 and beyond
Component: Performance
Symptoms:
APM crashes during periods of high Active Directory lookups.
Conditions:
APM configured to use ldap. This was seen during stress testing of AD queries.
Impact:
APM crashes, clients unable to connect
588854 : Windows integrated logon client take long time to log on in some case
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If Microsoft Windows integrated logon is used with the Edge client in locked mode, user login and logout takes more that three minutes to logon.
Conditions:
1) Windows integrated logon (also known as credential provider) is used.
2) Edge client is configured in locked mode.
Impact:
Usability
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Microsoft Windows integrated logon client used when the Edge client is configured in locked mode no longer takes more than three minutes to logon.
588720 : Fast Forwarded UDP packets might be dropped if datagram-load-balancing is enabled.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Fast Forwarded UDP packets might be dropped if datagram-load-balancing is enabled.
Conditions:
TMM is overloaded. UDP datagram load-balancing is used.
Impact:
UDP packets are dropped.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The fast-forwarding mechanism now properly handle packets
with invalidated flows. The packets are now sent back to the source tmm for reprocessing. The TCP and TCP4 filters were updated to properly work with the changed fast-forwarding implementation.
588686-2 : High-speed logging to remote logging node stops sending logs after all logging nodes go down
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
All logging to external logging nodes (such as BIG-IQ) suddenly stop.
Conditions:
This occurs when all of the configured logging nodes go down. Even when they are brought back up, tmm will not send logs to the remote servers.
Impact:
Remote logging stops and will only resume if tmm is restarted.
588606 : HTML_TAG_MATCHED fired for not matching tags.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
HTML_TAG_MATCHED might be raised for tags not configured in HTML profile rules.
This issue only causes extra executions of iRule events and does not affect work of configured HTML tag-raise-event rules.
Conditions:
Erroneous extra match might happen in two situations:
- When the last HTML tag in the current chunk of data (network packet) contains event handler attributes.
- When the same tag in the current buffer has tag-remove and tag-raise-event HTML rules configured. The tag will be removed and HTML_TAG_MATCHED event will be raised for the last tag of current buffer instead.
Impact:
HTML_TAG_MATCHED might be executed with unexpected HTML::tag values. The event handler might fail if it does not verify tag and attribute values.
Workaround:
HTML_TAG_MATCHED event handler should contain checks for tag and attribute values. This is a recommended style for writing iRules with HTML_TAG_MATCHED, and DevCentral examples are already written this way.
588456 : PEM deletes existing PEM Subscriber Session after lease time expires (DHCP renewal not processed).
Component: Policy Enforcement Manager
Symptoms:
When the BigIp is in DHCP forwarding mode, if the giaddr field in the unicast DHCP renewal packet is set to DHCP relay agent IP address, the DHCP server sends the ACK to the renewal packet to the relay agent IP(giaddr) instead of ciaddr. Bigip DHCP module does not process the ACK and update the lease time, which causes PEM subscriber session to be aged out.
Conditions:
1)BigIP in forwarding mode
2)giaddr field in unicast DHCP renewal packet is set to
IP address of relay agent(Typically, it is set to 0 by DHCP client)
Impact:
PEM Subscriber Session will age out
588405 : BADOS - BIG-IP Self-protection during (D)DOS attack
Component: Anomaly Detection Services
Symptoms:
Problem: 100% accurate detection may not help to prevent an attack
It's necessary to protect BIG-IP CPU utilization during attack - for BAD actors (in addition to shunlist) and for unknown IPs.
This mechanism should allow bad actors detection and keep CPU utilization in reasonable limits.
Conditions:
High BIG-IP CPU utilization during (D)DOS attack
Impact:
Service impact due to BIG-IP CPU high utilization
Workaround:
No workaround
Fix:
Added additional CPU protection during a (D)DOS attack
588399 : BIG-IP CPU utilization can be high even when all bad actors are detected and mitigated
Component: Anomaly Detection Services
Symptoms:
BIG-IP CPU utilization can be excessively high even after mitigating bad actors.
Conditions:
This can occur when Bad Actor detection is used
Impact:
CPU utilization will be higher than expected.
Fix:
An issue with referencing bad actors that have been detected and affecting CPU utilization has been fixed.
588351 : IPv6 fragments are dropped when packet filtering is enabled.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
IPv6 fragments are dropped when packet filtering is enabled.
Conditions:
Packet filtering is enabled and the system is processing IPv6 fragments.
Impact:
IPv6 fragments with a non-zero offset are lost.
Workaround:
Disable packet filtering.
Fix:
IPv6 fragments are no longer dropped when packet filtering is enabled.
588289 : GTM is Re-ordering pools when adding pool including order designation
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
GTM re-orders, including the "0" order when adding the pool with specific order designation.
Conditions:
This occurs when adding pools with a specified order.
Impact:
This changes the pool order unexpectedly which will affect Load balancing using global-availability.
588115 : TMM may crash with traffic to floating self-ip in range overlapping route via unreachable gw
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
As a result of a known issue TMM may crash in some specific scenarios if there is an overlapping and more specific route to the floating self-IP range configured on the unit.
Conditions:
- Unit configured with a floating self-IP and allow-service != none.
- More specific route exists via GW to the self-IP.
- Configured gateway for the overlapping route is unreachable.
- Ingress traffic to the floating self-IP.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Avoid the use of routes overlapping with configured floating self-IPs.
Fix:
TMM no longer crashes when floating self IPs are configured with more specific overlapping routes.
588089 : SSL resumed connections may fail during mirroring
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
SSL resumed connections when using SSL mirroring may fail during mirroring. This could result in SSL connections being unable to recover after failover.
Conditions:
Mirroring enabled on virtual with an associated client-ssl profile.
Impact:
SSL connections unable to recover after failover.
Workaround:
Disable session cache to prevent connections from resuming.
588087 : Attack prevention isn't escalating under some conditions in session opening mitigation
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Attack is detected and isn't escalating in session opening
Conditions:
A session opening attack, challenges are being answered by the attacker.
Impact:
The attack continues.
Workaround:
Configure the attack prevention as rate limit.
Fix:
Fixed attack escalation in some cases on session opening.
588058 : False positive "failed to unseal" Source Integrity alerts from old versions of Internet Explorer
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
Large numbers of "failed to unseal" Source Integrity alerts.
Conditions:
Source integrity feature enabled. Clients using Internet Explorer 8 to 10.
Impact:
High number of false positive alerts in alert dashboard.
Workaround:
Create alert dashboard signature to ignore source integrity alerts containing "failed to unseal" and Internet Explorer 8 to 10 user agent.
Fix:
Fixed parsing in relevant browsers.
588049 : Improve detection of browser capabilities
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Browsers can override native functions, and manipulate the PBD capabilities test.
Conditions:
1. Proactive Bot defense is on.
2. Attacker override its native functions.
Impact:
Malicious browsers can go undetected by PBD.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Check that majority of browsers native functions are not overridden.
587966 : LTM fastL4 DNS virtual server: first A query dropped when A and AAAA requested at the same time with same source IP:port
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
LTM fastL4 DNS virtual server or SNAT: first A query dropped when A and AAAA requested at the same time with same source IP:port.
Conditions:
A and AAAA DNS Query requested at the same time with the same source IP and Port.
Impact:
A Type DNS Query dropped intermittently.
Workaround:
Configure a standard virtual server with UDP profile for the traffic instead of using fastl4 or snat.
587915 : Improved SMTPS reset cause codes
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
All SMTPS TCP resets issue the same message from the same code line, making determining the exact cause difficult, if not impossible.
Conditions:
An exceptional situation (such as out of memory, missing STARTTLS command, or other internal error) occurs that causes the SMTPS hudfilter to tear down a connection.
Impact:
Usability - the connection will be torn down with only a vague indication of why.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Each connection teardown message is now unique, making it easier to determine the cause from the associated logs.
587773 : Add support for Thales version 12.10.01
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
BIG-IP versions prior to 13.0 do not support Thales version 12.10.01
Conditions:
This occurs on BIG-IP versions prior to 13.0
Impact:
If you have upgraded your Thales version, older versions of BIG-IP may not function correctly.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
This release adds support for Thales version 12.10.01.
587716 : Webtop doesn't notify user about ended session when F5 VPN application is used
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Internet Explorer based VPN solution will notify webtop window when APM session expires. New F5 VPN based solution (for Chrome and Firefox) has a technical limitation doing that, thus Webtop window still indicates webtop not a logout page like in case with Internet Explorer.
Conditions:
* Chrome or Firefox is used
* Windows, Mac or Linux machine is used
* User establishes VPN using F5 VPN application
* Session expires on server
Impact:
When the session expires/killed by an admin F5 VPN app exists leaving Webtop untouched. This may confuse a user that the session is still valid
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
Session validity is now performed when a user clicks on resource tile on webtop. If session is expired, webtop will redirect to logout page
587705-2 : Persist lookups fail for source_addr with match-across-virtuals when multiple entries exist with different pools.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Persist lookups fail for source_addr with match-across-virtual servers when multiple entries exist for the client, but pointing to different pools.
Conditions:
'Match_across_virtual' enabled. Multiple persistence entries for a client address exist, and some of these persistence entries point to poolmembers from different pools. Some of these poolmembers do not belong to any of the current virtual server's pools.
Impact:
Source address persistence fails for this client, even though there is a valid persistence entry that can be used.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Persist lookups now succeed for source_addr with match-across-virtual servers when multiple entries exist with different pools.
587698 : bgpd crashes when ip extcommunity-list standard with route target(rt) and Site-of-origin (soo) parameters are configured
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
bgpd daemon crashes
Conditions:
bgp extended-asm-cap is configured before configuring
ip extcommunity-list standard with rt and soo fields.
Impact:
bgpd daemon crashes leading to route loss and traffic loss.
Fix:
bgpd does not crash when both bgp extended-asm-cap and
ip extcommunity-list standard with rt and soo parameters are configured.
587678 : LTM SSL should do a full handshake when peer attempts to resume a session with a different client TLS version.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When client hello reuses a previous session ID, and changes the SSL version from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.2 in the handshake layer, but keeps the TLS 1.0 in the record layer, LTM accepts the session resumption, but changes the version of the record layer to TLS 1.2 as well, and finishes the resumption. However, the client aborts the connection due to the record layer version change.
Conditions:
When SSL client attempts to resume a session, but the client_version has changed.
Impact:
LTM accepts the session resumption, but changes the version of the record layer to TLS 1.2, and finishes the resumption. However, the client aborts the connection due to the record layer version change.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Instead of accept the session resumption, LTM SSL will do a SSL full handshake.
587676 : SMB monitor fails due to internal configuration issue
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
SMB monitor fails due to internal configuration issue
Conditions:
Configure the SMB monitor
Impact:
SMB monitor fails to execute
Fix:
Fixed an internal configuration issue so that the SMB monitor will load properly
587668-1 : LCD Checkmark button does not always bring up clearing prompt on VIPRION blades.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Pressing the LCD checkmark button does not always bring up clearing prompt on VIPRION blades.
Conditions:
Pressing the LCD's checkmark button to clear an alert on VIPRION blades.
Impact:
Cannot clear the alert using the LCD.
Workaround:
Press the checkmark button followed by the left or right arrow buttons.
Fix:
In this release, unneeded LCD updates that might have clogged the message channel have been optimized, and the keypress passed along at a later time, so it is not lost. So pressing the LCD checkmark button now correctly brings up clearing prompt on VIPRION blades.
587656 : GTM auto discovery problem with EHF for ID574052
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
After applying EHF9-685.88-ENG to CRCGTMCS101, many WideIPs such as CRT-LEGAL-SERVICE.gslb.global or OneEvent.gslb.global are unexpectedly status Checking instead of Available.
Conditions:
After applying EHF9-685.88-ENG
Impact:
Many WideIPs such as CRT-LEGAL-SERVICE.gslb.global or OneEvent.gslb.global are unexpectedly status Checking instead of Available.
Workaround:
Skip to the next Eng HF
v11.4.1-hf10/hotfix/HF10-690.10-ENG
Fix:
This problem only occurs with the one faulty EHF9-685.88-ENG and does not occur anywhere else.
587629 : IP exceptions may have issues with route domain
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
The IP exception feature doesn't work as expected.
Conditions:
There are many defined same IPs but with different route domain.
There were config changes to these IPs regarding their exception properties.
Impact:
An ignored IP is not ignored etc.
Workaround:
bigstart restart asm
Fix:
Fixed an issue with IPs and route domain.
587617 : While adding GTM server, failure to configure new IP on existing server leads to gtmd core
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
gtmd core with SIGSEGV in selfip_needs_xlation.
Conditions:
No GTM server object configured with existent selfip.
Impact:
gtmd cores. GTM unable to respond to DNS queries. DNS traffic disrupted while gtmd restarts.
Workaround:
Configure the GTM server object with an existent selfip. For more information, see K15671: The BIG-IP GTM system must use a local self IP address to define a server to represent the BIG-IP GTM system at https://support.f5.com/csp/#/article/K15671
Fix:
gtmd will not core.
587493 : MAC Edge client selects wrong network access resource if webtop contains multiple resources
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
MAC edge client chooses last network access resource instead of first one, if multiple network access resources are configured on the webtop.
Windows edge client selects the first resource. This may result in user confusion if multiple NA resources are configured
Conditions:
All conditions must be met
-Multiple network access resources are configured on webtop
-User uses MAC edge client to establish a network access connection
Impact:
User confusion and user may connect to incorrect network access resource
Workaround:
Any of the following workarounds would work
1) Do not configure multiple NA access resources
2) Create an access policy path which assigns correct NA resource based on client detection
3) Use Browser to establish NA connection
587419 : TMM may restart when SAML SLO is performed after APM session is closed
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
TMM may core when user performs SAML SLO on external to BIG-IP SP/IdP, and BIG-IP's APM session is no longer valid.
Conditions:
- User initiated SAML SLO on external SAML provider, and external provider redirect users to BIG-IP with SLO request.
- User does not have a valid session on BIG-IP when SLO request is received.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Disable SAML SLO by removing SLO request/response URLs from configuration
Fix:
TMM will no longer restart in the case described above.
587106 : Inbound connections are reset prematurely when zombie timeout is configured.
Component: Carrier-Grade NAT
Symptoms:
When an LSN pool is configured in PBA mode with a non-zero zombie timeout, inbound connections are killed and reset prematurely, often in a matter of seconds.
Conditions:
PBA mode configured on the pool, and zombie_timeout set to a non-zero value.
Impact:
Inbound connections to PBA pools with a zombie timeout configured may not be usable.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Inbound connections are no longer reset when zombie_timout is configured to a non-zero value.
587096 : Incorrect result returned from IP::tos iRule in the FLOW_INIT event.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The result returned from the "IP::tos" iRule in the FLOW_INIT event is always zero (Normal-Service), even when the actual packet from the client has TOS set to a different value.
Conditions:
Calling the IP::tos iRule from within a FLOW_INIT event handler for a virtual server always returns zero. The following iRule demonstrates the issue:
when FLOW_INIT {
log local0. "TOS from [IP::client_addr] is [IP::tos]"
}
when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
log local0. "TOS from [IP::client_addr] is [IP::tos]"
}
The logs will show that the IP::tos value is always 0 at FLOW_INIT, and always correct at CLIENT_ACCEPTED.
Impact:
Cannot make the correct service or routing decision at FLOW_INIT, based on the TOS provided in the initial packet in the flow.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The IP::tos iRule now correctly returns the TOS value from the initial client packet initiating a flow in the FLOW_INIT event handler.
587077 : Samba vulnerabilities CVE-2015-5370 and CVE-2016-2118
Vulnerability Solution Article: K37603172
587016 : SIP monitor in TLS mode marks pool member down after positive response.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
SIP monitor in TLS mode marks pool member down after positive response. The SIP monitor in TLS mode is constantly marked down.
Conditions:
SIP monitor configured in TLS mode.
Server does not send close_notify alert in response to the monitor's close_notify request.
Impact:
Unable to monitor the status of the TLS SIP server.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
SIP monitor in TLS mode now marks pool member up after positive response. This is correct behavior.
586887 : SCTP tmm crash with virtual server destination.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Rare configuration with SCTP can cause TMM core.
Conditions:
Complex configurations including wildcards, virtual servers and SCTP profiles.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
This release fixes a rare SCTP tmm crash with virtual server destination when using complex configurations including wildcards, virtual servers and SCTP profiles.
586878 : During upgrade, configuration fails to load due to clientssl profile with empty cert/key configuration.★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
During upgrade, configuration fails to load due to invalid clientssl profile cert/key configuration. The validation to verify whether at least one valid key/cert pair exists in clientssl profiles was enforced in software versions through 11.5.0. This validation was not in effect in versions 11.5.1, 11.5.2, and 11.5.3.
The lack of validation resulted in invalid clientssl profiles (those containing empty key/certs or a cert/key of 'default'). When you upgrade such a configuration to 11.5.4 or later, you will receive a validation error, and the configuration will fail to load after upgrade.
Conditions:
The issue occurs when all the below conditions are met.
1. You have a clientssl profile in a configuration from a version without validation (that is, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, or 11.5.3).
2. The clientssl profile in the configuration has an empty cert/key, or a cert/key of 'default'.
3. You upgrade to a version that has the cert/key validation (specifically, 11.5.4, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, and versions 12.1.0 and later).
Impact:
Configuration fails to load. The system posts an error message that might appear similar to one of the following:
-- 01070315:3: profile /Common/my_client_ssl requires a key Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed.
-- 01071ac9:3: Unable to load the certificate file () - error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file.
Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed.
Workaround:
To workaround this situation, modify the configuration file before upgrading:
1. Check the config file /config/bigip.conf.
2. Identify the clientssl profile without a cert/key.
For example, it might look similar to the following:
ltm profile client-ssl /Common/cssl_no-cert-key2 {
app-service none
cert none
cert-key-chain {
"" { }
}
chain none
defaults-from /Common/clientssl
inherit-certkeychain false
key none
passphrase none
}
Note: The profile might have cert-key-chain name but not the cert/key. In other words, it could also appear similar to the following example:
ltm profile client-ssl /Common/cssl_no-cert-key2 {
app-service none
cert none
cert-key-chain {
default { }
}
chain none
defaults-from /Common/clientssl
inherit-certkeychain false
key none
passphrase none
}
3. Remove the clientssl profile from /config/bigip.conf.
4. Run the command: tmsh load sys conf.
5. Re-create the clientssl profiles you need.
586862 : Tcl evaluation outside of an iRule can lead to tmm crash when the payload is synchronously released from below HTTP via an iRule.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Tcl expression evaluations (outside of an iRule) can lead to tmm crash when the payload is synchronously released from below HTTP via an iRule. A couple of examples where Tcl expressions are evaluated outside the context of an iRule include the tcl-setvar action of LTM Policy and the Request Header Insert feature of the HTTP profile.
Conditions:
Issue has been found on a virtual server with both an attached iRule and LTM Policy. The iRule calls TCP::collect when connection is accepted, and calls TCP::release at the CLIENT_DATA event. The LTM Policy has a single action to set a tcl set-variable expression.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Tcl evaluation outside of an iRule no longer leads to tmm crash when the payload is synchronously released from below HTTP via an iRule.
586858 : Modifications to custom provisioning ratios via GUI are not saved in System :: Resource Provisioning.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Modifications to custom provisioning ratios via GUI are not saved in System :: Resource Provisioning.
Conditions:
Use the GUI to customize any of the modules provisioned.
Impact:
Cannot customize provisioned ratios using the GUI.
Workaround:
Use tmsh to change the ratios.
Fix:
Modifications to custom provisioning ratios via GUI are now saved in System :: Resource Provisioning.
586758 : View HTML5 client doesn't work when APM is set to offload SSL from VCS
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
For the new integration of VMware View HTML5 client applicable to HTML5 clients v2.6 or later, it does not work if APM was configured for SSL offloading to the View Connection Server.
Conditions:
APM configured for PCoIP proxy case using APM webtop and VMware View HTML5 client.
Access to the VMware View backend is configured to take place over plain HTTP (SSL offloading mode) rather than HTTPS (SSL bridging mode).
Impact:
User cannot launch VMware View HTML5 client from APM webtop in case of SSL offloading mode.
Workaround:
Use SSL bridging mode to the backend.
Fix:
Now APM supports launching VMware View HTML5 client when SSL offloading mode is used.
586738 : The tmm might crash with a segfault.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The tmm might crash with a segfault.
Conditions:
Using IPsec with hardware encryption.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
IPsec is configured with hardware encryption error now returns an error code when appropriate, and manages the error as expected, so tmm no longer crashes with a segfault.
586718 : Session variable substitutions are logged
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
With the log level set to debug, session variable substitutions are logged, including the encrypted password if you are substituting the password variable. You may see the following logs: debug apmd[3531]: 01490000:7: Util.cpp func: "ScanReplaceSessionVar()" line: 608 Msg: data: '%{session.logon.last.password}' start_pos: 0, count: 30 on 'session.logon.last.password' with the encrypted password logged
Conditions:
APM Access Policy log level set to debug, and session variable substitution is performed.
Impact:
Session variable substitution should not be logged, even if it is secure.
Workaround:
Set log level to informational or notice for normal operations. Logging at debug level is not recommended unless absolutely needed for specific troubleshooting as it adversely affects system performance.
Fix:
Session variable substitutions are no longer logged.
586660 : HTTP/ramcache2 and RAM Cache are not compatible.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
A virtual server fails some requests where the response is served from cache.
Conditions:
If a virtual server has either SPDY or HTTP/2 enabled, it might fail requests that would normally be served from RAM cache.
Also, a normal HTTP virtual server that has an iRule attached that responds to the HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE event might give errors to Tcl commands that attempt to access the response headers.
Certain filters and plugins that required access to the response headers might also fail in unexpected ways.
Impact:
Errors in certain TCL commands or failed requests.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
HTTP/ramcache2 and RAM Cache are now compatible, and documents served from cache always have accessible headers now.
Note: This change introduces a formatting variance in the response headers. Now, certain header values are right justified, where previously, they were left justified. This includes the Age and Content-Length headers, though the Connection header remains left justified.
Here is an iRule to remove this white space on cache service:
when HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE {
set age_val [string trim [HTTP::header value Age]]
set con_len [string trim [HTTP::header value Content-Length]]
HTTP::header remove Age
HTTP::header remove Content-Length
HTTP::header insert Age "$age_val"
HTTP::header insert Content-Length "$con_len"
}
586657 : PPTP log entries now includes route-domain information
Component: Carrier-Grade NAT
Symptoms:
Log entries for PPTP does not include route-domain
Conditions:
Logging for PPTP
Impact:
Log entries for PPTP
Fix:
Log entries for PPTP now includes route-domain
Behavior Change:
HSL Log entries for PPTP now includes route-domain in from (client) and nat fields.
586587 : RatePaceMaxRate functionality does not work for the TCP flows where the round-trip time (RTT) is less than 6ms.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
RatePaceMaxRate functionality does not work for the TCP flows where the round-trip time (RTT) is less than 6ms. That results in sending data at higher rates than specified Max Rate.
Conditions:
RTT is less than 6ms.
Impact:
Packet loss might happen (queue overflow) due to sending at higher data rate than the specified max rate.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
RatePaceMaxRate works as expected, irrespective of latency.
586449 : Incorrect error handling in HTTP cookie results in core when TMM runs out of memory
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
If an under provisioned TMM runs out of memory, then this may result in allocation failures. Incorrect error handling of allocation failures in HTTP cookie code results in TMM core.
Conditions:
Cookie persistence with encryption required is enabled on the virtual. If an under provisioned TMM runs out of memory, then this may result in allocation failures.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Fix error handling in HTTP cookie code. Allocation errors result in connection resets as opposed to core due to assert.
586368 : Permissions problem on /var/log/sa6
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Non-root users or processes cannot read or write from /var/log/sa6 directory because of not having the executable bit set (0755 permissions).
Conditions:
Non-root users attempting to read or write from /var/log/sa6 directory.
Impact:
Processes not run by root cannot read or write to this directory and permissions' errors abound.
Workaround:
As root, run the following command: chmod 755 /var/log/sa6 /var/log/sa. Once the directory has the correct permissions, the errors disappear.
586170 : RADIUS Auth Challenge message with Non-ASCII characters in it is rendered to users in hex-encoded form
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If RADIUS sends a challenge with a non-ASCII characters (e.g., from French/Spanish), the user is presented with a hex string in the challenge. For example, the result for the accented characters 'á, é, Ã, ó' is the hex-encoded string '0xe12c20e92c20ed2c20f3'.
Conditions:
Using APM with a RADIUS server that sends a challenge response with non-ASCII characters.
Impact:
End user sees a hex string instead of the challenge response.
Workaround:
1. Navigate to Access Policy :: Customization :: Advanced. 2. Locate logon.inc (under Access Policy,Logon Pages, Logon Page in the Form Factor: Full/Mobile Browser frame of the screen.
3. Add code to logon.inc to decode the hex.
4. To do so, follow instructions for either BIG-IP v12.0.0 or for BIG-IP v11.6.0 HF6 to 12.0.0.
Search for function OnLoad() in logon.inc.
---In BIG-IP v12.0.0 and later, beginning on line 302 ---
302 function OnLoad()
303 {
304 var header = document.getElementById("credentials_table_header");
305 var softTokenHeaderStr = getSoftTokenPrompt();
306 if ( softTokenHeaderStr ) {
307 header.innerHTML = softTokenHeaderStr;
308 }
<? // ADD THE FOLLOWING CODE CHANGE INCLUDING THIS LINE
if($challenge == 1){?>
else if(header.innerHTML.substring(0,2) == "0x"){
var hex = header.innerHTML;
var str = '';
var i=0;
if (hex.charAt(0) == '0' && hex.charAt(1)== 'x') {
i = 2;
}
var ret;
for (; i < hex.length; i += 2) {
ret = parseInt(hex.substr(i, 2), 16);
if(isNaN(ret)){
break;
} else {
str += String.fromCharCode(ret);
}
}
if(isNaN(ret)){
ret = hex;
} else {
ret = str;
try{
ret = decodeURIComponent(escape(str));
} catch(e){};
}
header.innerHTML =String(ret).replace(/</g, '<').replace(/>/g, '>');
}
<?}?>
//END CHANGE
--- In BIG-IP v11.6.0 HF6 to 12.0.0, beginning on line 260 ---
260 function OnLoad()
261 {
262 var header = document.getElementById("credentials_table_header");
263 var softTokenHeaderStr = getSoftTokenPrompt();
264 if ( softTokenFieldId != "" && softTokenHeaderStr && edgeClientSoftTokenSupport()) {
265 header.innerHTML = softTokenHeaderStr;
266 }
<? // ADD THE FOLLOWING CODE CHANGE INCLUDING THIS LINE
if($challenge == 1){?>
else if(header.innerHTML.substring(0,2) == "0x"){
var hex = header.innerHTML;
var str = '';
var i=0;
if (hex.charAt(0) == '0' && hex.charAt(1)== 'x') {
i = 2;
}
var ret;
for (; i < hex.length; i += 2) {
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586006 : Failed to retrieve CRLDP list from client certificate if DirName type is present
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Client certification revocation check will fail.
Conditions:
Two conditions will trigger this problem:
1. A CRLDP agent is configured in the access policy without server hostname and port, which is needed for DirName type processing. AND
2. At least one DirName type CRLDP is present in the client certification and it is the first in the list.
Impact:
Users may fail access policy evaluation when client certification is used.
Workaround:
Configure an LDAP server for the CRLDP object. It need not return a valid CRL.
585946 : ASM Disallowed Geolocations without a full country name known to BIG-IP are lost on update.
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
The mapping of country codes to their names that ASM REST and GUI use is not updated when the GeoIP database is updated, and some values are missing.
These country codes can still be added to the list of disallowed locations directly when viewing a request, but do not show up in the GUI or REST.
On a subsequent update, country codes are then lost.
Conditions:
A country code whose full country name mapping is missing from ASM is added to the list of disallowed Geolocations from the Request Log.
The GUI or REST interface is then used to update the list of disallowed geolocations.
Impact:
Traffic from the affected disallowed Geolocations are longer blocked.
Workaround:
None.
585905 : Citrix Storefront integration mode with pass-through authentication fails
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Citrix Storefront integration mode with pass-through authentication fails. Client fails with error message saying "Authentication service is not reachable"
Conditions:
Citrix Storefront integration mode with only pass-through authentication enabled on the Storefront.
Impact:
Could not use pass through authentication on the storefront for remote access of the store.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
Passthrough authentication could be used for remote-access of the store.
585833-2 : Qkview will abort if /shared partition has less than 2GB free space
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In order to inform the user that the /shared partition needed to be cleaned up, qkview was checking for at least 2GB of free space. This isn't a hard requirement to build a qkview which potentially could use much less than the 2GB limit. Additionally, some F5 VE systems are shipped with less than 2GB in /shared, thus qkviews cannot be produced.
Conditions:
The /shared partition is smaller than 2GB or has less than 2GB free.
Impact:
User is unable to create a qkview despite having enough room to build one.
Workaround:
Increase the size of /shared so that it has at least 2GB of free space. See https://support.f5.com/csp/#/article/K14952 for detailed instructions on resizing volumes.
Fix:
A warning about having less than 2GB will still be issued, but the qkview will continue to attempt to finish.
585823 : 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)
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
Firewall NAT translation failures are observed if the pre-translation connection matches a Firewall NAT policy rule that uses source address list to match the incoming source address and the source translation object in the rule is configured to do 'dynamic-pat' with mode = deterministic
Conditions:
Following conditions suffice for the issue:
a) FW NAT rule has source translation object of type 'dynamic-pat' and mode = deterministic
AND
b) FW NAT rule has match source address-list only (and no inline source addresses on the match side)
Impact:
Translation failure occurs as described resulting in the connection failures.
Workaround:
If a FW NAT rule has source translation object with dynamic-pat and deterministic mode, the source address(es) on the match side should be specified as inline address(es) instead of specifying the source address-list with such addresses.
Fix:
Fix involves using the addresses specified in the source address list of the FW NAT rule to match incoming connections and perform translation.
585813-1 : SIP monitor with TLS mode fails to find cert and key files.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
SIP monitor with TLS enabled fails to find cert and key in filestore.
Conditions:
SIP monitor with TLS mode.
Impact:
Cannot create SIP monitor with TLS mode enabled and have the pool correctly checked.
Workaround:
Create an external monitor script to invoke the SIP monitor. Supply the correct arguments to the script.
Fix:
SIP monitor with TLS mode now finds cert and key files, so you can create SIP monitor with TLS mode enabled and have the pool correctly checked.
585807 : 'ICAP::method <method>' iRule is documented but is read-only
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
'ICAP::method' iRule function is documented as 'ICAP::method <REQMOD|RESPMOD>' which is said to get as well as set (modify) the ICAP method type in the ICAP_REQUEST event. Validation has at times rejected an argument, and at times accepted it. In fact the argument is ignored even if validation accepts it: the method type cannot be changed by the iRule. When validation rejects it, the system posts an error similar to the following: 01070151:3: Rule [/Common/icap_test] error: /Common/icap_test:2: error: [unexpected extra argument "REQMOD"][ICAP::method "REQMOD"]
Conditions:
iRule in ICAP_REQUEST event with 'ICAP::method REQMOD' or 'ICAP::method RESPMOD'.
Impact:
Users may attempt to change the method type. Usually the validator rejects it. In some versions the validator accepts it, but the methods only return the existing method type.
Workaround:
Do not attempt to change the method type with 'ICAP::method <method>'.
Fix:
ICAP::method is now documented as simply 'ICAP::method' with no argument, and it simply returns the current method type 'REQMOD' or 'RESPMOD'.
585786 : BWC policy object retrieval through XConfig interface fails
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
BWC policy object retrieval through XConfig interface fails. If the customer uses EM, device discovery failures are noticed as well.
Conditions:
BWC policy objects
Impact:
BWC policy object retrieval through XConfig interface fails. If the customer uses EM, device discovery failures are noticed as well.
585745 : sod core during upgrade from 10.x to 12.x.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The failover daemon (sod) may core during an upgrade, when the peer device upgrade completes and rejoins the trust.
Conditions:
Upgrading a high availability configuration from 10.x to 12.x or later.
Impact:
Corefile generated, and system will temporarily go offline, resulting in an interruption of service.
Workaround:
Upgrade multiple devices in the high availability configuration from 10.x to a supported 11.x release, and then upgrade to the desired 12.x release.
Fix:
The failover daemon (sod) no longer cores during an upgrade, when the peer device upgrade completes and rejoins the trust.
585639 : SIP rport value not set in the BIG-IP system response to client RFC 3581
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) rport value not set in the BIG-IP system response to client.
Conditions:
Enabling SIP Via header insertion on the BIG-IP system on SIP MBLB profile or SIP MRF profile and client requests has Via header with rport set. RFC 3581 defines functionality of the rport parameter to request that the server send the response back to the source IP address and port from which the request originated.
Impact:
No rport value in the client response. SIP client/server or peer/peer communications do not work as expected. Connections might fail.
Workaround:
Use an iRule similar to the following to insert the rport value into the header when client requests it:
when SIP_REQUEST {
set topvia [SIP::via 0]
set replaceval ";rport=[UDP::remote_port];"
if { $topvia contains ";rport;" } {
set newtop [string map ";rport; $replaceval" $topvia]
SIP::header insert Via $newtop 0
SIP::header remove Via 1
}
}
Fix:
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) rport value is now set as expected in the BIG-IP system response to client, as defined in RFC 3581.
585562 : VMware View HTML5 client shipped with Horizon 7 does not work through BIG-IP APM in Chrome/Safari
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
When using Google Chrome or Safari (WebKit-based) browser to launch VMware View HTML5 client for Horizon 7 from APM webtop, this attempt fails with a blank screen in place of remote desktop session.
Conditions:
-- BIG-IP APM configured as PCoIP proxy for Horizon 7.
-- APM webtop in which the HTML5 client is used to launch a remote desktop.
Impact:
Cannot use HTML5 client. Only native client (Horizon View client) is available.
Workaround:
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::header "Origin"] ne "" } {
HTTP::header remove "Origin"
}
}
Fix:
VMware View HTML5 client shipped with Horizon 7 now work sthrough BIG-IP APM in Chrome/Safari.
585547 : NTP configuration items are no longer collected by qkview★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
qkview was collecting the file "/etc/ntp/keys" which in some cases, contains secret keys used for integrity verification of NTP messages.
Conditions:
Execute qkview to collect diagnostic information.
Impact:
Possibility for keys to be exposed.
Workaround:
1. Do not execute qkview.
2. If executing qkview, do not share this file with untrusted parties.
Fix:
With this release, qkview no longer collects this file.
585502 : nss, nspr, and nss-util vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-1978 and CVE-2016-1979
Vulnerability Solution Article: K37540306
585485 : inter-ability with "delete IPSEC-SA" between AZURE, ASA and BIGIP
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Some IKEv1 IPsec vendor implementations (for example Cisco ASA) send a delete SPI message for an IPsec-SA and expect that the sibling IPsec-SA (the SPI in the other direction) will also be deleted by the peer.
BIG-IP sends and expect messages with two SPI's inside.
Conditions:
An IPsec tunnel between a BIG-IP system and some other vendor may experience this. Azure and Cisco ASA are two such vendors.
Impact:
An IPsec tunnel goes down and in some situations may not renegotiate while the BIG-IP believes that the outgoing SPI is still active. The tunnel will stay down until the lifetime of the outbound SA expires.
Workaround:
Delete the outbound SA from the BIG-IP using the tmsh command by specifying the related SA:
(tmos)# delete net ipsec ipsec-sa ?
Properties:
"{" Optional delimiter
dst-addr Specifies the destination address of the security associations
spi Specifies the SPI of the security associations
src-addr Specifies the source address of the security associations
traffic-selector Specifies the name of the traffic selector
Fix:
The BIG-IP system will remove both SAs associated with one traffic-selector (tunnel) when the peer sends a delete SPI message.
585442 : Provisioning APM to "none" creates a core file
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Provisioning APM level to "none" may result in apmd creating a core file.
Conditions:
When the APM service is shut down, the apmd daemon may create a core file.
Impact:
Harmless
Workaround:
There is no loss in functionality.
585412 : SMTPS virtual server with activation-mode allow will RST non-TLS connections with Email bodies with very long lines
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Connections to a virtual server that uses an SMTPS profile may be reset with a reset cause of 'Out of memory.'
Conditions:
This might occur under the following conditions:
-- A virtual server that uses an SMTPS profile with activation-mode set to allow.
-- A client connection which does not use TLS that sends a DATA section with a text line that is longer than approximately 8192 characters.
8192 characters is an approximation for the maximum line length. The actual problem length can be affected by the MSS value and the particular way that the TCP traffic is segmented.
Impact:
The TCP connection is reset with a reset-cause of Out of memory' and the email will not be delivered.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
A virtual server that uses an SMTPS profile with activation-mode set to allow no longer resets connections when the client does not use STARTTLS and the email body contains very long lines.
585352 : bruteForce record selfLink gets corrupted by change to brute force settings in GUI
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
If you update the brute force settings in the GUI, rest_uuid is updated as well, which breaks the self-link in the iControl REST API
Conditions:
Update brute force settings in GUI
Impact:
Unique record part updated
Workaround:
Update brute force settings using the REST API
Fix:
GUI is not changing rest_uuid when brute force settings are updated
585332-4 : Virtual Edition network settings aren't pinned correctly on startup★
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
You notice unusually high CPU utilization on Virtual Edition after upgrading to 12.1.0 when compared to a previous release (such as version 11.6.1).
Conditions:
This occurs after upgrading to 12.1.0. In Virtual Edition version 12.1.0, there is an issue where network interface IRQs don't get pinned correctly at startup.
Impact:
Since CPU0 is unusually high compared to previous releases, upgrading could put Virtual Edition into an overloaded state.
Workaround:
bigstart restart tmm will start the network interfaces and pin them to the right IRQ.
Fix:
Fixed an issue where interfaces and their IRQs were not configured correctly during system boot.
585120 : Memory leak in bd under rare scenario
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Under high traffic, bd may leak memory and cause an ASM restart under certain rare conditions
Conditions:
ASM enabled and under high traffic
Impact:
Causes traffic abort while restart is happening. High swap and memory.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
A memory leak in the bd was fixed.
585097 : Traffic Group score formula does not result in unique values.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In certain configurations, the Traffic Group score for a particular Traffic Group can be identical across devices in a device service cluster, resulting in the Traffic Group becoming Active on more than one device simultaneously.
Conditions:
The score is derived from the management-ip and other factors. If the device management-ips are not on the same /24 subnet, the score is not guaranteed to be unique.
The score can be observed with the tmsh "run cm watch_trafficgroup_device" command, and in some versions of BIG-IP, the "show cm traffic-group" command.
Impact:
When the problem occurs, Traffic Groups will be Active on multiple devices simultaneously. The problem can affect all Traffic Groups.
Workaround:
The only solution is to change the management-ip on one of the colliding devices. The workaround is not practical with DHCP, and in many other situations.
Fix:
The Active device selection logic has been changed to deterministically choose the Active device location, even in cases with identical static scores.
585054 : BIG-IP imports delay violations incorrectly, causing wrong policy enforcement
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
When you import an XML file that contain references to violations in the delay blocking session tracking configuration, extra violations get added to the list.
Conditions:
This occurs when importing delay-type violations in ASM
Impact:
A very large subset of the violations is added to the policy
Fix:
BIG-IP now imports delay-type violations correctly.
584926 : Accelerated compression segfault when devices are all in error state.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
TMM segfaults. Kernel log contains "Uncorrectable Error" and "icp_qa_al err" messages.
Conditions:
All physical or virtual devices concurrently enter error state.
Impact:
Tmm segfaults and restarts. May require a reboot.
Workaround:
Disable QAT compression using tmsh:
tmsh modify sys db compression.strategy value softwareonly
Fix:
TMM QAT compression driver will not fail if all QAT devices concurrently go down.
584921 : Inbound connections fail to keep port block alive
Component: Carrier-Grade NAT
Symptoms:
Connections that use a PBA port block should keep the port block from expiring. However inbound connections to a client using a port block will fail to refresh the block, causing the block to expire pre-maturely. An inbound connection can remain active while the port block has been deleted.
Conditions:
An inbound connection with no outbound connections fails to keep a port block alive, resulting in an inbound connection to a client without a corresponding port block.
Impact:
When reverse mapping an inbound connection to a subscriber (e.g. trying to find who was using an ip address/port at a particular time), customers may find no corresponding port block, or a port block belonging to another client when the reverse map is performed at a time when the connection is closed.
Workaround:
When performing a reverse map, customers should use the start time of a connection to determine which port block was in use.
Fix:
Inbound connections properly refresh the port block, preventing premature expiration of the port block.
584914 : Unsupported customization fields are shown for VMware View Logon Page policy agent
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
The following customization text fields are shown to the user for VMWare View Logon Page policy agent:
- Logon Page Input Field #1
- Logon Page Input Field #2
- Logon Page Original URL
In fact, those cannot be customized and hence are misleading.
Conditions:
User configuring an access policy for native Horizon View clients access through APM.
Impact:
User may suppose these fields will affect the Horizon View client look'n'feel although they can't.
Workaround:
No workaround, these issues should just be ignored until hidden.
Fix:
These fields are to be hidden.
584840 : The "Maximum Line Length" violation is not detected in the last line of a websocket frame.
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
The "Maximum Line Length" setting of the plain text profile does not inspect the last line sent in a web socket. This is true even if only a single line of text is sent to the web socket.
Conditions:
Plain text profile used, with Maximum Line Length set
Impact:
If a max-length violation occurs on the last line of text, ASM will not flag the violation.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
ASM now performs validation the length of all lines in a web socket when Maximum Line Length is specified in the profile.
584788 : Directed failover of HA pair using only hardwire failover will fail
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Units configured in a HA pair using only hardwire failover will not be able to use a targeted failover.
Conditions:
HA pair configured without network failover but with a hardwire failover.
Failover is attempted using one of the 2 following methods:
Via GUI
Device Management -> Traffic Groups
check <traffic group>
click "force to standby"
again click "force to standby"
via tmsh
tmsh run sys failover standby device <peer device> traffic-group <traffic group name>
Impact:
Failover may fail with the following logs in /var/log/ltm
Mar 15 10:27:57 <hostname> notice sod[8214]: 010c0044:5: Command: go standby <traffic group name> <device name> GUI.
Mar 15 10:27:57 <hostname> notice sod[8214]: 010c002b:5: Traffic group <traffic group name> received a targeted failover command for <peer mgmt IP>.
Mar 15 10:28:00 <hostname> notice sod[8214]: 010c004b:5: Target device <traffic group name> is not responding, cannot failover.
Workaround:
Use an alternative failover method:
- Device Management > Devices > Force to Standby
- Device Management > Traffic Groups > [traffic Group name] > Force to Standby
- tmsh run sys failover standby # without device
Fix:
BIG-IP now fails over using targeted failover when hardwire failover is configured.
584772-3 : ssldump may crash when decrypting bad records
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
ssldump crashes while decrypting.
Conditions:
Using ssldump to decrypt SSL which contains bad records.
Impact:
ssldump crashes making it difficult to decrypt SSL data.
584716 : SAML XML Canonicalization on BIG-IP as IdP may return invalid value if AuthnRequest is formed in a special way
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Signature validation fails on BIG-IP as IDP when AuthnRequest from external SP is signed, and contains a newline/linefeed character after '</Signature>' element
Conditions:
- BIG-IP is used as IdP
- External SP signs AuthnRequests
- Signed AuthnRequest contains newline/linefeed character after '</Signature>' element
Impact:
WebSSO will fail
Workaround:
n/a
Fix:
Issue is now fixed.
584642 : Apply Policy Failure
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
Some Policies cannot be successfully applied/activated
Conditions:
Signature overrides on Content Profiles are configured
Impact:
Policy cannot be applied
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Policies can be successfully applied.
584623 : Response to -list iRules command gets truncated when dealing with MX type wide IP
Component: Global Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
GTM iRule "members" with the "-list" flag will truncate MX-type WideIP pool members when printed out to a log.
Conditions:
Use the GTM iRule "members" with the "-list" flag to print out the members of an MX WideIP pool during a DNS event.
Impact:
WideIP MX-type pool members are truncated in the log.
Workaround:
None
584583 : Timeout error when attempting to retrieve large dataset.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The Rest API can timeout when attempting to retrieve large dataset, such as a large GTM pool list. The error signature when using the Rest API looks like "errorStack":["java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: remoteSender:127.0.0.1, uri:http://localhost:8110/tm/gtm/pool, method:GET "
Conditions:
Configuration containing a large number of GTM pools and pool members (thousands).
Impact:
If using the Rest API to retrieve the pool list, you may receive timeout errors.
584582 : JavaScript: 'baseURI' property may be handled incorrectly
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If generic JavaScript object has 'baseURI' property, it may be handled incorrectly via Portal Access: web application may get 'undefined' value for this property.
Conditions:
User-defined JavaScript object with 'baseURI' property.
Impact:
Web application may work incorrectly.
Workaround:
iRule can be used to remove F5_Deflate_baseURI() calls from rewritten JavaScript code.
Fix:
Now JavaScript objects with 'baseURI' property are handled correctly by Portal Access.
584504 : Allowing non-English characters on login screen
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Usernames and passwords can contain non-English characters but it fails when logging in.
Conditions:
Usernames and/ or passwords contain non-English characters.
Impact:
Users entering these characters on the login screen are unable to log in.
Workaround:
Make sure Usernames and/ or passwords contain only English characters.
Fix:
Usernames and passwords with non-English characters can be used to log in.
584471 : Priority order of clientssl profile selection of virtual server.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When a SSL connection with specified server name is received in a virtual server from the client side, the BIG-IP system selects one clientssl profile for this connection based on the given server name. Currently the system matches the server name using the following rules:
(1) First try to match the server name with explicit server name configuration of the clientssl profiles.
(2) If (1) has no match, then try to match the common names of the certificates used by the clientssl profiles.
(3) If (2) has no match, then try to match the subject alternative names of the certificates used by the clientssl profiles.
The issue is, based on RFC6125, common name should be used as a 'last resort'. In other words, the third rule should be the second rule.
Conditions:
The issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met.
(1) The incoming SSL request includes SNI (server name) extension in the clienthello, used to specify its desirable SSL server.
(2) The given server name from the client side does not match any server name configured in all the clientssl profiles of the virtual server.
(3) The certificates used by the clientssl profile of the virtual server have subject alternative names (note that every certificate has common name but not necessarily subject alternative names).
Impact:
The virtual server might select a clientssl profile that is not preferred by the client side.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Priority order of clientssl profile selection of virtual server. The system now matches the server name using the following rules:
(1) First try to match the server name with explicit server name configuration of the clientssl profiles.
(2) If (1) has no match, then try to match the subject alternative names of the certificates used by the clientssl profiles.
(3) If (2) has no match, then try to match the common names of the certificates used by the clientssl profiles.
So the common-name match is last, which is correct according to RFC6125.
584374 : iRule cmd: RESOLV::lookup causes tmm crash when resolving an IP address.
Component: Global Traffic Manager (DNS)
Symptoms:
iRule command RESOLV::lookup causes tmm crash when resolving an IP address.
Conditions:
Using the RESOLV::lookup iRule command to resolve an IP address.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Do not use the RESOLV::lookup command to resolve an IP address.
Fix:
TMM no longer crashes when the iRule command RESOLV::lookup is used.
584373 : AD/LDAP resource group mapping table controls are not accessible sometimes
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
AD/LDAP resource group mapping
In case of both lengthy group names and resource names edit link and control buttons could disapper under dialogue bounds
Conditions:
very long group names and resource names
Impact:
Impossible to delete and move rows in table - still possible to edit tho.
Workaround:
Spread one assign thru multiple rows
Fix:
Scroll bar is appearing when needed
584310-5 : TCP:Collect ignores the 'skip' parameter when used in serverside events
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When TCP::Collect is used with 'skip' and 'length' arguments in SERVER_CONNECTED, the "skip' argument does not take effect and is ignored. The Collect works, but collects only the length bytes from start.
Conditions:
TCP:Collect on server side events like SERVER_CONNECTED used with the 'skip' parameter. This is an intermittent issue that have happen only with IIS server.
Impact:
TCP:Collect collects bytes without taking into account the skip, so the bytes collected are not the correct ones.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
The settings for TCP::Collect command skip and length arguments are now honored during packet processing.
584242 : tmm assert "wrong selector tag"
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The tmm will assert with "wrong selector tag."
Conditions:
This may happen with a high IPsec tunnel count, for example 24000 tunnels defined, and the system is out of memory.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
Provision the system within working limits.
Fix:
The tmm assert has been corrected.
584213 : Transparent HTTP profiles cannot have iRules configured
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When an HTTP profile is configured in transparent mode, but has a nonexisting iRule attached to it, then tmm will crash.
Conditions:
There is irule but proxy is transparent
when HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST {
after 1000
}
Change configuration from explicit->transparent while we were in the after command. We then attempt to use configuration that doesn't exist, and then crash.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
This is incorrect configuration. Either detach the iRule or configure the profile in a mode other than transparent.
Fix:
Incorrectly configured proxy types from TMOS installations of earlier versions will be corrected at upgrade time. A warning will be logged that describes the change made.
584113 : "Util% (last 10 sec)" Field in "tmsh show sys cpu" when 5 second average is computed
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When the command "tmsh show sys cpu" is executed, the output has "Util% (last 10 sec)" field displayed with incorrect information for the total column.
Conditions:
This occurs when the command "tmsh show sys cpu" is invoked.
Impact:
The displayed data is not correct. Instead, the system is displaying the usage ratio which is calculated in an entirely different manner.
Workaround:
You can use the tmctl command to display the 5 sec average ratio which is what the output should be. The command is:
tmctl cpu_info_stat -s five_sec_avg.ratio
This provides the workaround to the output for the tmsh command "tmsh show sys cpu".
Fix:
"Util% (last 10 sec)" field output in "tmsh show sys cpu" when 5 second average is computed now displays the 5 seconds average data.
584103 : FPS periodic updates (cron) write errors to log
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
FPS periodic updates (run via cron) write errors to log when FPS is not provisioned.
Conditions:
FPS is not provisioned.
Impact:
Errors appears in FPS logs.
584082 : BD daemon crashes unexpectedly
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
bd crashes, with the following log signature immediately before the crash in /var/log/bd.log:
"IO_PLUGIN|ERR |Mar 29 20:48:02.217|17328|plugin_common.c:0085|plugin context doesn't match the argument which was originally set on it".
Conditions:
It is not known exactly what triggers this condition; it can occur intermittently during normal use of ASM.
Impact:
A bd crash, failover, traffic disturbance.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Fix a bd crash scenario.
584029-1 : Fragmented packets may cause tmm to core under heavy load
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
tmm core due to assertion
Conditions:
tmm offloads a fragmented packet via an ffwd operation.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
None.
583957 : The TMM may hang handling pipelined HTTP requests with certain iRule commands.
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Rarely, the TMM may hang during a HTTP::respond or HTTP::redirect iRule command if it is part of a pipelined HTTP request.
Conditions:
A HTTP::respond or HTTP::redirect iRule is used.
The iRule command is in an event triggered on the client-side.
A pipelined HTTP request is being handled.
Impact:
The TMM will be restarted by SOD.
Fix:
The TMM no longer hangs in rare situations when processing a pipelined HTTP request and invoking a HTTP::respond or HTTP::redirect iRule command.
583943 : Forward proxy does not work when netHSM is configured on TMM interfaces
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Forward proxy feature does not always work when netHSM is configured on TMM interfaces.
Conditions:
When netHSM device is configured on TMM interface.
Impact:
The forward proxy feature does not work. This is an intermittent issue.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Forward proxy now works consistently when netHSM is configured on TMM interfaces.
583936 : Removing ECMP route from BGP does not clear route from NSM
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When configured to install multiple routes into the routing table, ZebOS does not withdraw BGP routes when a neighbor is shut down and it has more than two routes already installed for the same route prefix.
Conditions:
ECMP routing must be enabled and in-use.
Impact:
ECMP routes are not properly removed from the main routing table.
Fix:
Now properly removing ECMP routes from the routing table.
583777 : [TMSH] sys crypto cert missing tab completion function
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When pressing the tab key for the tmsh command "sys crypto cert", it does not display existing certificate names. You must manually type the certificate name that you want to operate.
Conditions:
This occurs in tmsh:
root@(big7)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# list sys crypto cert <------- press <tab>.
Options:
all | <------------ nothing shows up.
root@(big7)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# show sys crypto cert <------- press <tab>.
Options:
all | <------------ nothing shows up.
Impact:
Not possible to select a certificate using tab complete.
Workaround:
Manually type the certificate name.
Fix:
With the fix, you can now see the existing certificate names when pressing tab key for the tmsh command "sys crypto cert".
583754 : When TMM is down, executing 'show ltm persist persist-records' results in a blank error message.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Executing 'show ltm persist persist-records' results in a blank error message.
Conditions:
TMM must be down.
Impact:
Non-obvious / unhelpful error message is generated, leading to customer confusion.
Workaround:
N/A
583700 : tmm core on out of memory
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
tmm memory increases quickly, then crashes on out of memory condition
Conditions:
It is not known exactly what triggers this, but it was observed on a hardware platform processing a large number of ECDH ciphers.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Fix:
Cancel ongoing crypto requests when handshake is dropped.
583686 : High ASCII meta-characters can be disallowed on UTF-8 policy via XML import
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
After importing an XML policy, you cannot view or edit policies containing high ASCII characters.
Conditions:
This occurs when importing XML policies containing high-ASCII meta-characters but high-ASCII is not allowed in a UTF-8 policy.
Impact:
Unable to view or edit the policy, and Illegal meta character in value violation is triggered
583629 : ASM subsystem error appears in asm log after changing XML/JSON profile for parameter
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
ASM subsystem error appears in asm log after changing XML/JSON profile for parameter
ASM subsystem error (asm_config_server.pl,F5::ASMConfig::Handler::save_events_to_config_log): Couldn't save to config log (Attempt to bless into a reference at /usr/local/share/perl5/F5/ASMConfig/Entity/Base.pm line 192. )
Conditions:
ASM rpovisioned
change one XML/JSON profile, assigned to a parameter, to another XML/JSON profile.
Impact:
ASM subsystem error appears in asm log after changing XML/JSON profile for parameter
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
We've prevented an error from occurring when changing XML/JSON profile for parameter
583627 : Portal Access code does not check if methods of XMLHttpRequest Javascript object are redefined by application
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Portal Access code does not check if wrapped methods of XMLHttpRequest Javascript object were redefined by web application. In the worst case this allows application code to read or modify mangled URL before sending AJAX request.
Conditions:
Application redefines 'open' method of XMLHttpRequest object or prototype.
Impact:
Application code can read and modify already rewritten URL and send unmangled AJAX requests.
583600 : Portal Access could send to backend application wrong URL query separator
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
If any query parameters were added into request URL after being processed with F5 rewriting code, backend application could receive URL with wrong query separator (';').
Conditions:
This occurs on Access Portal, some POST request parameters may have a semicolon as a query separator and not get rewritten.
Impact:
Applications expecting '&' as a query separator won't be able to parse query part of URL correctly and may return an error.
Workaround:
when REWRITE_REQUEST_DONE {
# Replace parameter_name with actual name of parameter which is added after F5CH.
if { [HTTP::query] contains {;parameter_name=} } {
HTTP::query [string map {;parameter_name= ¶meter_name=} [HTTP::query]]
}
}
Fix:
Now requests to back-end server with query parameters contain parameter delimiters from original web application request.
583516 : tmm ASSERT's "valid node" on Active, after timer fire..
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
TMM crashes on ASSERT's "valid node".
Conditions:
The cause is unknown, and this happens rarely.
Impact:
tmm crash
Workaround:
no
Fix:
TMM no longer asserts on 'valid node'
583502 : Considerations for transferring files from F5 devices
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
For more information, see K58243048: Considerations for transferring files from F5 devices, available at https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K58243048
Conditions:
For more information, see K58243048: Considerations for transferring files from F5 devices, available at https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K58243048
Impact:
For more information, see K58243048: Considerations for transferring files from F5 devices, available at https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K58243048
Fix:
For more information, see K58243048: Considerations for transferring files from F5 devices, available at https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K58243048
583475 : The BIG-IP may core while recompiling LTM policies
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
In some rare and still unknown situations the BIG-IP Mcpd process may core when creating or modifying LTM policies. While the root cause of the crash is not fully understood at this time, one of the symptoms points to a nonexistent or invalid LTM policy.
Conditions:
Creating or modifying LTM policies.
Impact:
The BIG-IP control plane services restart thus affecting both, control plane and data plane functionality.
Workaround:
A possible workaround could be to attempt re-creating the LTM policy producing the crash under a different name. Avoid any special characters (or spaces) in the name of the LTM policy.
Fix:
Not fixed yet.
583367-2 : AJAX encryption may send corrupted payload when configuration is incorrect
Component: Fraud Protection Services
Symptoms:
AJAX encryption can fail when non-existent fields are configured.
Conditions:
Activate AJAX encryption and configure fields that don't exist in the page.
Impact:
Decryption of AJAX may fail.
Workaround:
n/a
Fix:
AJAX encryption now works as expected
583355 : The TMM may crash when changing profiles associated with plugins
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
The TMM may crash when changing profiles associated with plugins.
Conditions:
The must be a profile associated with a plugin already on a virtual server and traffic must be running. When the profile is removed or swapped for another, the crash may occur.
Impact:
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
Workaround:
A safe way to definitely avoid a crash is to stop the plugin before making changes to its profile.
583285 : BIG-IP logs INVALID-SPI messages but does not remove the associated SAs.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The BIG-IP system logs INVALID-SPI messages but does not remove the associated Security Associations (SAs) corresponding to the message. This is the second part of a fix provided for this issue. See fixes for bug 569236 for the first part.
Conditions:
This can occur if an IPsec peer deletes a phase2 (IPsec) SA and does not send a 'notify delete' message to the other peer. The INVALID-SPI message is most likely to be seen when the peer deletes an SA before the SA's agreed lifetime.
Impact:
If the BIG-IP is always the Initiator, the Responder will not initiate a new tunnel if the Responder only handles responses to the BIG-IP clients' traffic. The BIG-IP system continues to use the IPsec SA it believes to be still up. When an SA expires prematurely, some IPsec peers will reject an inbound SPI packet with an ISAKMP INVALID-SPI notify message. If the INVALID-SPI message does not cause new SAs to be created, there will be a tunnel outage until the SA lifetime expires on the defunct SA held on the BIG-IP system.
Workaround:
Manually remove the invalid SA on the BIG-IP system.
Fix:
Now, when the BIG-IP system receives INVALID-SPI messages, it deletes the invalid Security Association as well as logging the INVALID-SPI message, so the tunnel can initiate again. This is part two of a two-part fix. Fixes for bug 569236 provide part one of the fix.
583113 : NTLM Auth cannot be disabled in HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST event
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
The following iRule did not work as expected when the access profile had an NTLM auth. The client still received a 407 prompt to enter NTLM credentials.
when HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::uri] contains "disable" } {
ACCESS::disable
}
}
Conditions:
Access profile of an SWG type, with an NTLM auth profile attached.
Impact:
It was impossible to disable NTLM auth from the HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST event.
Workaround:
The following iRule works from HTTP_REQUEST
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::uri] contains "disable" } {
ACCESS::disable
ECA::disable
}
}
Fix:
When ACCESS filter is disabled, it still processes certain messages. The logic in one of those message handlers was "if NTLM configured, then wake up the ECA plugin"
Fix changed the logic to "if NTLM configured and ACCESS filter is not disabled, then wake up the ECA plugin."
583108 : Zebos issue: No neighbor x.x.x.x activate in address-family IPv6 lost on reboot/restart.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
when a neighbor with ipv4 address is disabled in ipv6 address family, show running configuration displays that the neighbor is disabled. However, when we restart or reboot the tmrouted or bgp protocol, the neighbor is enabled again. The configuration persistence is not maintained.
Conditions:
1. disable a neighbor with ipv4 address in ipv6 address family.
2. reboot/restart tmrouted or bgp protocol
Impact:
configuration persistence is not maintained. This impacts the BIGIP upgrades as the configuration loaded is not the same as it was before the upgrade. Similarly, a restart/reboot will also have different configuration loaded than originally used. This might alter the intended behavior of the protocol that the use expects to function.
Workaround:
disable the neighbor again.
Fix:
configuration persistence is maintained for the disabled neighbor with ipv4 address in the ipv6 address family.
583101 : ADAPT::result bypass after continue causes bad state transition
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
Tcl command 'ADAPT::result bypass' does not work in ADAPT_REQUEST_RESULT when the ICAP server has previously returned 100-continue.
Conditions:
iRules exist on a VS with an adapt profile, containing:
when ADAPT_REQUEST_RESULT {
ADAPT::result bypass
}
or
when ADAPT_RESPONSE_RESULT {
ADAPT::result bypass
}
Impact:
ADAPT logs an unexpected state transition and resets the connection, making it impossible for iRules to replace the ICAP response.
Workaround:
Avoid 'ADAPT::result bypass' commands in cases where there is no preview (either configured for no preview, or after the preview has been dropped due to a 100-continue or 200-ok ICAP response).
Fix:
Tcl command 'ADAPT::result bypass' is allowed in ADAPT_REQUEST_RESULT and ADAPT_REPSONSE_RESULT at any time, even outside a preview (such as when the ICAP server has previously returned 100-continue and the preview has been dropped). No further payload is sent to the IVS, and further IVS response payload is ignored by ADAPT. The unmodified HTTP headers, any preview, and any future original payload bypass the IVS. A warning is logged in cases where some payload might have been lost (such as when there is no preview or it has been dropped, as is the case after ICAP 100-continue). The HTTP connections remain intact and amenable to user iRules replacing the content.
583043 : tmm segfault: ikev2_noncecmp (n1=0x0, n2=0x0)
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
The tmm cores when using IPsec IKEv2.
Conditions:
A rare timing condition related to IPsec decryption and security association timeout.
Impact:
All connections reset.
583024 : TMM restart rarely during startup
Component: Advanced Firewall Manager
Symptoms:
A TMM crashes with a core file during startup. It restarts then correctly.
Conditions:
The system starts up.
Impact:
The system startup takes longer. A core file appears. Traffic is not impacted and a failover usually doesn't occur since the system didn't reach the active state.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
TMM no longer crashes during startup.
583010-1 : Sending a SIP invite with "tel" URI fails with a reset
Component: Service Provider
Symptoms:
Using a "INVITE tel:" URI results in SIP error (Illegal value).
Conditions:
Sending a SIP "INVITE tel:" to BIG-IP does not work.
Impact:
"INVITE tel:" messages are not accepted by BIG-IP.
Workaround:
None
Fix:
An EHF will be released to address this issue. It will also be addressed in a future release.
582844 : Start Screen Guest List is not available
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Guest List is not available as a Start Screen.
Conditions:
vCMP is enabled.
Impact:
Cannot use Guest List as the Start Screen.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
Guest List option has been added for the Start Screen.
582769 : WebSockets frames are not forwarded with Websocket profile and ASM enabled on virtual
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
WebSockets frames are not forwarded with WebSocket profile and ASM enabled on virtual.
Conditions:
Virtual has WebSocket profile attached to it. ASM is enabled on the virtual. WebSockets server replies with a "Connection: upgrade" header. The issue is also seen if multiple header values are present in Connection header.
Impact:
WebSockets frames are not forwarded to the pool member
Workaround:
Use a simple iRule similar to the following:
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
if { [HTTP::status] == 101 } {
HTTP::header replace "Connection" "Upgrade"
}
}
Fix:
The system now accepts "Connection: UPGRADE" or "Connection: upgrade" as valid header for WebSocket handshake, and supports a comma-separated list of values for the Connection response header.
582752 : Macrocall could be topologically not connected with the rest of policy.★
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
It is possible to create macrocall access policy item that:
1. Belongs to policy items list.
2. Correctly connected to ending.
3. Have no incoming rules (i.e., no items pointing at it).
Conditions:
1. Create access policy with macrocall item in one of the branches.
2. Remove the item which refers to this macrocall item from AP
As a result, macrocall item remains.
Impact:
VPE fails to render this access policy.
Workaround:
Delete macrocall access policy item manually using tmsh commands.
Fix:
Any modification of access policy is not allowed if it makes any access policy item non-referenced.
At upgrade time, non-referenced access policy items are deleted. All subsequent access policy items are deleted as well. Resulting access policies can be rendered correctly by VPE. Note that only active configuration is corrected, saved configuration file (/config/bigip.conf) contains uncorrected version until any new configuration changes are done. Active configuration can be saved by explicit tmsh command ('tmsh save sys config partitions all").
582683 : xpath parser doesn't reset a namespace hash value between each and every scan
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
After a while the iRule event stops firing until the cbrd daemon is restarted.
Conditions:
The customer has a virtual server configured with an XML, along with an iRule that triggers on the XML_CONTENT_BASED_ROUTING event.
Impact:
XML content based routing does not work dependably.
Workaround:
N/A
Fix:
fixing xpath parer -- Restoring namespace declaration each time the xpath parser finishes to parse the document.
582629 : User Sessions lookups are not cleared, session stats show marked as invalid
Component: Application Visibility and Reporting
Symptoms:
AVR session statistics may be reported as excessively high, and when the sessions time out they get marked as invalid instead of being removed.
Conditions:
The exact conditions which cause this in a production configuration are unknown, as this was discovered during internal testing.
Impact:
Session statistics will report incorrectly
Fix:
An issue with session statistics not clearing after session timeout has been fixed.
582526 : Unable to display and edit huge policies (more than 4000 elements)
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
It takes a very long time or is not possible to display huge policies (more than 4000 elements). VPE returns server timeout error or simple halts.
Conditions:
Huge Access Policy, for example, containing 4000 or more elements.
Impact:
Unable to edit policy because VPE times out.
Workaround:
None.
Fix:
VPE loading times for APM policies is greatly improved, so displaying very large policies (for example, 4000 elements) now completes successfully.
582487-1 : 'merged.method' set to 'slow_merge,' does not update system stats
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
When the statistics DB variable option 'merged.method' is set to 'slow_merge,' system stats is not updated and remains zero.
Conditions:
Merged.method is set to slow_merge.
Impact:
System stats such as overall CPU usage remain at zero.
Workaround:
Set Merged.method to fast_merge.
Fix:
When the statistics DB variable option 'merged.method' is set to 'slow_merge,' system stats are not updated as expected.
582465 : Cannot generate key after SafeNet HSM is rebooted
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
After the SafeNet Hardware Security Module (HSM) is restarted, users cannot generate a new key.
Conditions:
The BIG-IP system uses the SafeNet HSM.
Impact:
HSM service is not usable even after restarting pkcs11d. Users must re-authenticate.
Workaround:
To generate a new key, after HSM finishes starting up, run the following commands:
# /shared/safenet/toolkit/sautil -v -s 1 -i 10:11 -c
# /shared/safenet/toolkit/sautil -v -s 1 -i 10:11 -o -p <hsm_partition_password>
Or, you can reinstall SafeNet client.
Fix:
After the SafeNet Hardware Security Module (HSM) is restarted, users can now generate a new key.
582440 : Linux client does not restore route to the default GW on Ubuntu 15.10
Component: Access Policy Manager
Symptoms:
Default route may be deleted after network access connection is deleted on Linux Ubuntu 15.10 distribution.
Conditions:
Ubuntu 15.0, network access tunnel connect and then disconnect
Impact:
User will not be able to reach internet after disconnecting from network access.
Workaround:
If Wifi is in use then turn off and on again.
If Ethernet is used then unplugging and plugging cable again should solve the problem.
582374 : Multiple 'Loading state for virtual server' messages in admd.log
Component: Anomaly Detection Services
Symptoms:
When a dosl7d profile is configured on a BIG-IP that's in a device group and the BIG-IP is set to "Forced Offline" in the Device Management settings, admd will log multiple messages to admd.log similar to 47854390298368 Mar 22 02:38:50 [info] virtual bool CVirtualServerImpl::loadState() : Loading state for virtual server
Conditions:
- dosl7d profile attached to a virtual server
- BIG-IP is part of a DSC cluster
- a BIG-IP is forced offline in the cluster
Impact:
Excessive logging occurs to /var/log/adm/admd.log
Workaround:
None
Fix:
An issue with excessive logging to admd.log has been fixed.
582207 : MSS may exceed MTU when using HW syncookies
Component: Local Traffic Manager
Symptoms:
Packets larger than the interface's MTU can be transmitted.
Conditions:
A SYN packet is received with an MSS that exceeds the interface's MTU.
Impact:
Potential packet loss.
Workaround:
Disable HW syncookie mode.
582133 : Policy builder doesn't enable staging after policy change on "*" entities (file types, urls, etc.)
Component: Application Security Manager
Symptoms:
When conditions of "Track Site Change" settings are met the staging flag on "*" entities is supposed to be turned ON in order to learn sub-sequences of site changes without blocking traffic. However it doesn't happen. The staging flag stays OFF.
Conditions:
Staging was set OFF on "*" entity. After that conditions of "Track Site Change" settings are met.
Impact:
in a situation when the protected Web application was changed, ASM can block traffic when it should not be blocked.
Workaround:
Staging flag can be changed manually via GUI
Fix:
The problem was a sub-sequence of other code changes. The code was fixed he way it should count for "Track Site Change" conditions and change Staging flag when it is needed.
582127 : VE OVA logrotate max-file-size too big for /var/log partition size
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
Virtual Edition (VE) OVA logrotate max-file-size is too big for the /var/log partition size.
Conditions:
This occurs on 11.5.0 and later, where the partition size was reduced from 6 GB to 500 MB, to better manage disk space.
Impact:
The BIG-IP VE system runs out of disk space due to increased logging. In this instance, logrotate should run and potentially free up space by rotating and compressing the actively written logs. With the current setting for max-file-size, however, that cannot happen, thus leading to increased likelihood of running out of space in /var/log.
Workaround:
You can extend the disk space for logs by performing the following procedure. (From K14952: Extending disk space on BIG-IP Virtual Edition, available here: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14952#proc3.)
Impact of procedure: You need to shut down the BIG-IP VE system during the disk provisioning steps, and the system will not be available for traffic processing. You should perform this procedure during a suitable maintenance window. Increasing the disk size on the VE system is irreversible, since F5 does not support disk shrinking.
1. Log in to the command line on the BIG-IP VE system.
2. Shut down the system by typing the following command:
shutdown -h now
3. Provision the desired disk space for the VE system on the hypervisor. For information about disk provisioning on the hypervisor, refer to the documentation from your hypervisor vendor.
4. Start up the BIG-IP VE guest instance on your hypervisor. For information about starting a guest instance on the hypervisor, refer to the documentation from your hypervisor vendor.
5. When the BIG-IP VE system is up, log in to the command line on the VE system.
6. Extend the /var/log directory by using the following command syntax:
tmsh modify /sys disk directory /var/log new-size <desired value in KB>.
--For example you would type the following command to extend the /var/log directory to 10 GB:
tmsh modify /sys disk directory /var/log new-size 10485760.
7. Save the configuration by typing the following command:
tmsh save /sys config.
8. Reboot the VE system by typing the following command:
reboot.
9. When the BIG-IP VE system is up, log in to the command line on the VE system.
10. Verify that the /var/log directory is successfully extended to the size you have specified in step 6 by typing the following command:
tmsh show /sys disk directory.
Fix:
In this release, the default /var/log partition size to prevent the issue that occurred because the log-rotate max-file-size was too big in VE.
582084 : BWC policy in device sync groups.
Component: TMOS
Symptoms:
When there is a BWC policy created in global sync group and also a local one, the