Bug ID 489705: Running out of memory while parsing large XML SOAP requests

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
10.2.4, 11.0.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 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, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 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, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2 HF1

Opened: Nov 10, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K16245

Symptoms

Running out of memory while parsing large XML SOAP requests.

Impact

Unnecessary memory allocations which could cause the Enforcer to run out of memory. The system posts an error similar to the following: 'ASM out of memory error: event code X239 Exceeded maximum memory assigned for XML/JSON processing'.

Conditions

System parses as XML a large multipart file upload.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

This release fixes an issue where the system parsed as XML a large multipart file upload. Doing that caused unnecessary memory allocations which could cause the Enforcer to run out of memory. The following error message was displayed "ASM out of memory error: event code X239 Exceeded maximum memory assigned for XML/JSON processing".

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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