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F5 Networks: K06223540 (CVE-2015-8240): F5 TCP vulnerability CVE-2015-8240

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F5 Networks: K06223540 (CVE-2015-8240): F5 TCP vulnerability CVE-2015-8240

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/16/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2017
Modified
09/16/2019

Description

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and BIG-IP PEM before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.0 HF6 and BIG-IP PSM before 11.4.1 HF10 does not properly handle TCP options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the tm.minpathmtu database variable.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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