Vigil@nce - F5 BIG-IP: denial of service via the traffic management
February 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can send specially crafted packets TCP to an F5 BIG-IP
device, in order to make it halt.
Impacted products: BIG-IP Hardware, TMOS.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 16/12/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The F5 BIG-IP product offers traffic management functions.
However, when management is enabled in a virtual server, some
sequences of TCP packets trigger a fatal error.
An attacker can therefore send specially crafted packets TCP to an
F5 BIG-IP device, in order to make it halt.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/F5-BIG-IP-denial-of-service-via-the-traffic-management-21402