Bug ID 1109953: TMM may crash if a data-group is used when an SSL Forward Proxy Bypass/Intercept list contains extremely long entry

Last Modified: Feb 07, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 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, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2

Fixed In:
17.1.0, 16.1.4, 15.1.9

Opened: May 26, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

A very long entry (exceeding the maximum length allowed by internet stndards) in a data-group used for SSL Forward Proxy Bypass/Intercept hostname list may cause TMM to crash.

Impact

Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

All of the below conditions have to be met: -- A virtual server uses SSL profile -- This SSL profile has Forward Proxy enabled. -- The SSL profile has Forward Proxy Bypass enabled. -- The SSL profile uses Hostname Bypass and/or Hostname Intercept data-group. -- Anny to the data-groups contains entries which are longer than 255 characters.

Workaround

Make sure all entries in the data-group used for intercept/bypass hostnanme list do not exceed 255 characters. According to RFC 1035 section 2.3.4, longer hostnames are not valid.

Fix Information

TMM no longer crashes when hostname data-group entries are too long. Instead there is an error message logged: 01260000:2: Profile <affected SSL profile name>: could not load hostname bypass/intercept list However, incorrect entries need to be fixed as they are not valid anyway and make the data-group to be ignored.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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