Bug ID 485714: The bigd process will go into a restart loop when an invalid encrypted password is entered.

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1

Opened: Oct 21, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K16179

Symptoms

The bigd process will go into a restart loop, with the following log message in /var/log/ltm: Fatal error: An unexpected failure occurred while performing an OpenSSL cryptography operation. Root error: 10219:error:0606506D:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal_ex:wrong final block length:evp_enc.c:323:

Impact

The bigd process will restart.

Conditions

This issue occurs when there is an encrypted password on a monitor.

Workaround

Enter the plaintext password in the Monitor UI page.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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