Bug ID 676557: Binary data marshalled to TCL may be converted to UTF8

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 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

Fixed In:
14.0.0, 13.1.3.2

Opened: Aug 01, 2017

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Binary data marshalled out of some iRule commands may be mistakenly converted to UTF8.

Impact

Data corruption in some iRule commands

Conditions

Unspecified commands return raw binary data (instead of strings). These commands may have their output incorrectly converted to UTF8. This will corrupt the binary data.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Binary output from certain iRule commands will not be corrupted into UTF8 strings.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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