Bug ID 525787: Validation fails to reject WAM/AAM extensions beginning with *.

Last Modified: Jul 13, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP AAM, WAM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
10.2.4, 11.0.0, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 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, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 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, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4

Fixed In:
12.1.0

Opened: May 29, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K21431560

Symptoms

Validation fails to reject WAM/AAM extensions beginning with *.

Impact

Policy appears to have loaded but it has not, and WAM/AAM will be in full bypass, so there is no WAM/AAM acceleration. Although the system logs an error in /var/log/tmm, it might not be apparent. The error appears similar to the following: WAC [wac_finalize_policy]: ERROR - unable to compile policy '/Common/Copy2 of Generic Policy - Complete'.

Conditions

Erroneously prepending *. to an extension value in a WAM/AAM policy.

Workaround

Remove the *. from extensions in WAM/AAM policy.

Fix Information

A leading *, *., or dot in policy extension value is now ignored, which logs an error in /var/log/tmm similar to the following: notice WAM policy error: initial '*.' in extension 'html' ignored.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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