Bug ID 458928: APMD cores in Kerberos authentication, when the agent tries to derefence a null authparam session variable.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 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, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.5.2, 11.4.1 HF9

Opened: Apr 24, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K16921

Symptoms

APMD cores in Kerberos authentication, when the agent tries to derefence a null authparam session variable.

Impact

APMD process cores and restarts.

Conditions

This occurs when using client based Kerberos authentication without an authparam.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

If an authparam is not found in the local cache, an empty string will be returned to the caller. This is correct behavior.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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