FKIE_CVE-2016-5023
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-08-26 14:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:48
Severity
Summary
Virtual servers in F5 BIG-IP systems 11.2.1 HF11 through HF15, 11.4.1 HF4 through HF10, 11.5.3 through 11.5.4, 11.6.0 HF5 through HF7, and 12.0.0, when configured with a TCP profile, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Traffic Management Microkernel restart) via crafted network traffic.
References
| URL | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| cve@mitre.org | http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92670 | Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | |
| cve@mitre.org | http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036624 | Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | |
| cve@mitre.org | https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/k/19/sol19784568.html | Vendor Advisory | |
| af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92670 | Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | |
| af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036624 | Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | |
| af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/k/19/sol19784568.html | Vendor Advisory |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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