Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP AFM
Opened: Jun 21, 2021 Severity: 3-Major
AFM does not report IP Checksum and Bad TCP Checksum vector attacks because these signatures are dropped in the SmartNIC hardware as malformed packets.
SmartNIC drops the packets and they are not reported by AFM.
-- BIG-IP Virtual Edition running on a device with a SmartNIC -- AFM provisioned and configured to detect IP Checksum and Bad TCP Checksum vectors.
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