Bug ID 818109: Certain plaintext traffic may cause SSL Orchestrator to hang

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2

Fixed In:
16.0.0, 15.1.2.1, 14.1.4

Opened: Aug 27, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

After upgrading SSL Orchestrator to version 5.x, traffic gets reset, SSL Orchestrator hangs, and tcpdump analysis indicates that connections are being reset due to SSL handshake timeout exceeded.

Impact

SSL Orchestrator hangs on that connection, unable to bypass traffic until the connection times out. Other connections handle traffic during this interval.

Conditions

-- SSL Orchestrator configured. -- Initial plaintext traffic resembles SSLv2 hello message or has less-than-enough bytes for SSL to process.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

This release adds a db variable to enable/disable SSLv2 hello parsing. It is called tmm.ssl.v2compatibility and is disabled by default.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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