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Tracker / CVE-2017-6159

CVE-2017-6159

Medium 5.9

F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, Websafe software version 12.0.0 to 12.1.2, 11.6.0 to 11.6.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack when the MPTCP option is enabled on a virtual server. Data plane is vulnerable when using the MPTCP option of a TCP profile. There is no control plane exposure. An attacker may be able to disrupt services by causing TMM to restart hence temporarily failing to process traffic.

Affected products and versions

f5 big-ip_access_policy_manager
f5 big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager
f5 big-ip_application_acceleration_manager
f5 big-ip_application_security_manager
f5 big-ip_link_controller
f5 big-ip_local_traffic_manager
f5 big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager
f5 big-ip_websafe

Analysis

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