Bug ID 520105: Possible segfault during hardware accelerated compression.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0

Fixed In:
11.6.1

Opened: Apr 27, 2015

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

Segfault and core-dump of tmm when using gzip, deflate, or zlib hardware accelerated compression compress or decompress operations.

Impact

Tmm restarts when the issue is encountered.

Conditions

Requests for compression on the hardware accelerator might cause a segfault.

Workaround

Disable hardware accelerated compression.

Fix Information

Cancelled flow contexts involving a compression context no longer segfault when the in-flight operation completes.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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