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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2021.0506 iRules LX vulnerability CVE-2021-22973 11 February 2021 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: BIG-IP Products Publisher: F5 Networks Operating System: Network Appliance Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Unknown/Unspecified Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2021-22973 Original Bulletin: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13323323 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- K13323323: iRules LX vulnerability CVE-2021-22973 Original Publication Date: 11 Feb, 2021 Security Advisory Description JSON parser function does not protect against out-of-bounds memory accesses or writes. (CVE-2021-22973) Impact The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) may exit and restart while processing JSON payload with iRules LX commands, leading to a failover event. Security Advisory Status F5 Product Development has assigned ID 880361 (BIG-IP) to this vulnerability. To determine if your product and version have been evaluated for this vulnerability, refer to the Applies to (see versions) box. To determine if your release is known to be vulnerable, the components or features that are affected by the vulnerability, and for information about releases, point releases, or hotfixes that address the vulnerability, refer to the following table. For more information about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding Security Advisory versioning. +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | | |Versions |Fixes | |CVSSv3|Vulnerable| |Product |Branch|known to |introduced|Severity |score^|component | | | |be |in | |1 |or feature| | | |vulnerable| | | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | |16.x |16.0.0 - |16.0.1.1 | | | | | | |16.0.1 | | | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |15.x |15.1.0 - |15.1.2 | | | | | | |15.1.1 | | | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | |BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, |14.x |14.1.0 - |14.1.3.1 | | | | |AFM, Analytics, | |14.1.3 | | | | | |APM, ASM, DNS, FPS,+------+----------+----------+High |7.5 |iRules LX | |GTM, Link |13.x |13.1.0 - |13.1.3.5 | | | | |Controller, PEM) | |13.1.3 | | | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |12.x |12.1.0 - |None | | | | | | |12.1.5 | | | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |11.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | |7.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | |BIG-IQ Centralized |6.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | |Management | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |5.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ |Traffix SDC |5.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | | | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ ^1The CVSSv3 score link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is possible that the document may be removed without our knowledge. Security Advisory Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Fixes introduced in column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are currently running, or does not list a non-vulnerable version, then no upgrade candidate currently exists. 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