Bug ID 1174033: The UPDATE EVENT is triggered with faulty session_info and resulting in core

Last Modified: Jan 20, 2023

Bug Tracker

Affected Product:  See more info
BIG-IP PEM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2

Opened: Oct 14, 2022
Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The UPDATE EVENT requires a proper initialization of the session_info which in turn is used to set the tcl pcb's cmdctx. With properly defined cmdctx, the sess_data is populated successfully. But, without proper initialization of the session_info makes the cmdctx to carry incorrect vaules, thus resulting in a core when populating the sess_data.

Impact

Results in a core.

Conditions

Enable the Global UPDATE-EVENT option and make sure you log some session attributes as part of the UPDATE EVENT.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change