Bug ID 476616: Set active fails after accept learning suggestion for illegal metachar Policy with encoding iso-8859-1

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 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

Opened: Aug 24, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

The GUI reports the following error: Could not apply configuration; Set active failed.

Impact

Set active fails. Policy changes cannot be applied.

Conditions

-- Policy is configured for an application language like iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15. -- Learning suggestions that stem from multi byte UTF-8 parameter values (Illegal Meta Character in Value) are accepted.

Workaround

Go to Parameters list and for each parameter with override 'Allow' for the metachar 'ÿ' remove the override completely: choose the override, click on '>>' and click on update.

Fix Information

Set active no longer fails after accept learning suggestion for illegal metachar Policy with encoding iso-8859-1

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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