Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP AFM
Known Affected Versions:
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, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 HF1, 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
Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.5.2 HF1
Opened: Feb 03, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
ICMP flood protection triggers at an earlier than expected threshold if all of the ICMP attack traffic contains the same ID. This is because all traffic is sent to the same tmm when it contains the same ID but the threshold takes into account the number of tmms.
The forwarded ICMP traffic has higher priority that regular traffic causing normal traffic to potentially get dropped sooner as compared to forwarded traffic.
When ICMP traffic is sent with the same ICMP id, and the DoS threshold was configured assuming the ICMP traffic would be spread across all tmms.
None
ICMP attack traffic with same ID being forwarded to a single TMM for processing is now tagged with the correct priority.