Bug ID 1377537: BD profile adds an additional newline for block-response-body every time BD profile is updated from UI.

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Fixed In:
17.5.0

Opened: Oct 09, 2023

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

- When BD profile is configured with a block response body including new lines characters, After every update BD profile adds additional new lines to the block response body.

Impact

The block response body eventually may get large enough to reach the maximum limit. This may lead to a partial/scrambled block response for malicious requests.

Conditions

- BD profile is configured. - BD profile has a custom block response body containing new lines - BD profile is being updated through UI.

Workaround

1. Update the BD profile from tmsh command. or 2. Use \n or <br> in the block response body instead of new lines.

Fix Information

BD profile now does not add any extra lines to BD profile when updated.

Behavior Change

BD profile now does not add any extra lines to BD profile when updated.

Guides & references

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