Bug ID 521548: Possible crash in SPDY

Last Modified: Nov 07, 2022

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Affected Product:  See more info
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 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, 11.5.10, 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, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.6.1

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.4.1 HF9

Opened: May 05, 2015
Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

In very rare circumstances related to SPDY protocol handling together with a compression profile a crash may occur.

Impact

Very rarely a crash may occur.

Conditions

This is very rare and the exact circumstances are unclear, It involves SPDY, a compression profile and a congested client connection and a stream being reset by the browser (using a RST_STREAM frame).

Workaround

Don't apply the compression profile.

Fix Information

A sporadic crash when using SPDY together with a compression profile no longer occurs.

Behavior Change