Security readout for executives and security teams
This issue can let a remote attacker crash or hang certain F5 traffic-management devices by sending malformed TCP traffic. The business risk is outage: affected BIG-IP or BIG-IQ systems may stop handling traffic when software SYN cookies are enabled on virtual servers. Exposure is most likely for organizations running affected F5 versions on the named platforms with software SYN cookies enabled on virtual servers, especially internet-facing load balancers, application gateways, or security appliances. Treat this as a high-priority availability risk for exposed F5 infrastructure. It is not described as data theft or code execution, but outage of load-balancing or gateway services can disrupt multiple business applications at once. Mitigation focus: Inventory F5 BIG-IP, BIG-IQ, and Enterprise Manager versions against the affected list.; Identify virtual servers using software SYN cookies on named platforms.; Upgrade to the fixed F5 versions or hotfixes listed in the CVE description..
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- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/k/35/sol35358312.htmlCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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