Bug ID 494565: CSS patcher crashes when a quoted value consists of spaces only

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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 HF1, 11.5.3 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 HF6, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.4.1 HF9

Opened: Dec 04, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K65181614

Symptoms

CSS content that contains some spaces between quotes leads to rewrite crash. Example: ... background: url(' ') // some spaces between quotes ...

Impact

The impact of this issue causes a rewrite crash which leads to a possible web application malfunction.

Conditions

Conditions leading to this problem include any case when CSS content contains a quoted value which consists of spaces only.

Workaround

To work around this issue, create a particular iRule that removes mentioned spaces between quotes.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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