Bug ID 2277637: TMM may crash when using PQC DH group

Last Modified: Aug 25, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
21.1.0

Fixed In:
21.1.0.1

Opened: Apr 15, 2026

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

TMM experiences crashes on certain platforms when the PQC DH group is utilized

Impact

Service availability

Conditions

Enable the DH group X25519MLKEM768 on platforms that do not support the CPU feature AVX2 This may rarely include CPUs used on hypervisor systems, but more often will be due to virtualisation software not exposing the AVX2 feature set to the guest vCPUs. F5 r2xx and r4xx lack AVX2.

Workaround

If AVX2 instruction family is not exposed to guest then this might be a configuration issue on hypervisor, if hypervisor host CPU has the feature. On ESXi, for example, guest virtual machine type 13 (compatibility with ESXi 6.5) and above for would be needed to expose AVX2 on guest vCPU. If AVX2 not present then disable PQC DH group on BIG-IP.

Fix Information

TMM uses software alternative when AVX2 instruction is not available.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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