Bug ID 2452089: TMM may crash when using PQC DH group

Last Modified: Oct 05, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
21.1.0.1

Fixed In:
21.1.0.2

Opened: Aug 05, 2026

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

TMM experiences crashes on certain platforms when the PQC DH group is utilized Note that FIPS-enabled licenses use PQC in their self-tests

Impact

TMM cores with traffic disruption With a FIPS-enabled license, there is TMM instability and a restart loop

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 virtualization software not exposing the BMI2 feature set to the guest vCPUs F5 r2xx and r4xx lack BMI2

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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