Bug ID 472106: TMM crash in a rare case of flow optimization

Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.3, 11.5.3 hf1, 11.5.3 hf2, 11.5.4, 11.5.4 hf1, 11.5.4 hf2, 11.5.4 hf3, 11.5.4 hf4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10

Fixed In:
11.6.0

Opened: Jul 17, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

During a special case of optimization the peer connflow is released. Subsequent references to connflow result in crash.

Impact

Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

When PEM hudfilter is optimized & server sends a reset, the code checks a non-existent peer connection.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

The code path checks for NULL connflow before attempting to access the data structure.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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