CVE-2018-5500
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-01 16:00
Modified
2024-09-16 20:41
Severity ?
Summary
On F5 BIG-IP systems running 13.0.0, 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.1, or 11.6.1 - 11.6.2, every Multipath TCP (MCTCP) connection established leaks a small amount of memory. Virtual server using TCP profile with Multipath TCP (MCTCP) feature enabled will be affected by this issue.
References
f5sirt@f5.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103217Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
f5sirt@f5.comhttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K33211839Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
F5 Networks, Inc.BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator, WebSafe
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