Bug ID 783217: Negative numbers of received packets in DoS-sampled log messages for bad actor and attacked destination attacks

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4

Fixed In:
15.1.0, 14.1.4.2

Opened: May 17, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

There are negative values for the number of received packets in DoS-sampled log messages for bad actor and attacked destination attacks.

Impact

Incorrect log messages.

Conditions

Running the reset-stats command.

Workaround

Restart tmm. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts. Do not run reset-stats command.

Fix Information

Internal counter is now initialized properly after running the reset-stats command.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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