Bug ID 462268: long session var processing in variable assignment agent

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 11.0.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.6.1 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, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.5.4 HF2

Opened: May 14, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

before the fix, there was no way to operate session variables > 4096 bytes in variable assignment agent

Impact

cannot process some well known attributes of from active directory server like memberOf if user is a member of thousands groups OR member if group has thousands of members

Conditions

variable assignment agent uses session variable that is longer than 4Kb (value)

Workaround

None

Fix Information

There is no limit on session variable value length in the variable assign agent.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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