Bug ID 488105: TMM may generate core during certain config change.

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1, 11.5.1, 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, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.4.1 HF10

Opened: Oct 31, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

While the sandbox file is being used by data-plane, if the admin changes configuration to delete this sandbox file, the TMM may generate core due to accessing freed up memory.

Impact

TMM may core, which may cause APM service to become unavailable for some time.

Conditions

While data-plane is handling requests for the sandbox files, if admin deletes it from the control plane.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Access whitelist entries are refcount-ed to prevent freeing of the memory while it is still being used.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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