Bug ID 1029069: Non-ASCII characters are not displayed correctly.

Last Modified: Sep 24, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5

Opened: Jun 25, 2021

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

1. Add a new address IP with a value that includes non-ASCII characters in the data group list. 2. Go back to GUI->Local Traffic ›› iRules : Data Group List and click it. The value field does not display entered values. After clicking update several times you may encounter an error such as: 01070712:3: MCP call 'mcpmsg_set_string_item(m_msg, CID2TAG(cid), val.c_str())' failed with error: 16908375, 01020057:3: The string with more than 65535 characters cannot be stored in a message.

Impact

Impacts the functioning of the address record. For example, when the datagroup is called by an iRule.

Conditions

Adding non-ASCII characters to the value field in data group lists.

Workaround

Do not add non-ASCII characters to the value field.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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