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HistoryJan 08, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

K22843911 : F5 Path MTU Discovery vulnerability CVE-2015-7759

2016-01-0800:00:00
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10

4.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

56.9%

Security Advisory Description

BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, Link Controller, and PEM 12.0.0 before HF1, when the TCP profile for a virtual server is configured with Congestion Metrics Cache enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) restart) via crafted ICMP packets, related to Path MTU (PMTU) discovery. (CVE-2015-7759)

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to restart using maliciously constructed ICMP packets.

Virtual servers using a TCP profile configured with Congestion Metrics Cache enabled are affected by this vulnerability. Congestion Metrics Cache is enabled by default for TCP profiles.

4.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

56.9%