Bug ID 703208: PingAccessAgent causes TMM core

Last Modified: Sep 14, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM(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, 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

Fixed In:
14.0.0, 13.1.0.6

Opened: Jan 23, 2018

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

PingAccessAgent can cause TMM to core due to accessing freed memory.

Impact

Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

It happens in edge case situation. Exact steps are still under investigation. Suspicion is that the client aborts the connection while TMM/PingAccessAgent module is still awaiting response from the PingAccessAgent back-end server.

Workaround

There is no workaround at this time.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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