Bug ID 451253: Incorrect Highlight of characters in violation details buffer

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10

Fixed In:
11.6.0

Opened: Mar 05, 2014

Severity: 4-Minor

Related Article: K02744504

Symptoms

Sometimes (depending on request encoding) highlighting of detected buffers in violation details works incorrectly.

Impact

Wrong parts of string are highlighted, resulting in potential confusion.

Conditions

Examining violation details of requests in multibyte encoding.

Workaround

No workaround.

Fix Information

This release fixes an issue where intermittently, the system highlighted the wrong characters of a request that was detected by an attack signature.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips