Last Modified: Nov 07, 2022
Affected Product:
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BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
11.1.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.10, 11.5.2, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 HF1
Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.4.1 HF10, 11.2.1 HF11
Opened: Mar 26, 2014
Severity: 3-Major
Related Article:
K16540
Each use of the interface tmm0 for inter-TMM communication is supposed to increment its count of nexthop references. When the use of the interface is expired, the reference count is supposed to decrement, but in this case, the reference count is not decremented.
Reference count leaks, which causes the count to monotonically increase, which eventually might cause TMM to crash and restart.
This occurs when TMM runs over an extended period of time, and internal communication between TMMs over tmm0 is heavy during the period.
This issue has no workaround.
The nexthop reference count of the interface tmm0 is thoroughly examined and corrected, so it no longer leaks ref counts.
