Bug ID 431618: SIP Filter crash in egress because the ingress pcb is already released

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.0, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.5.0, 11.4.1 HF2

Opened: Sep 24, 2013

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K14911

Symptoms

TMM crashes, and in the core dump file, you can find the following information: 1. cf->flow_type should be FLOW_SERVERSIDE(0x80) 2. sip->pcb should be null (indicating that the client side pcb is released) i.e. the server side flow is accessing the client pcb which is released.

Impact

TMM core's

Conditions

The PCB on the client flow is released and the server flow tries to access it

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Fixed a relatively rare coring condition where the SIP filter would access memory that was already freed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips