Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
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: Jun 04, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
New session variable "session.access.scope" includes a null character after the value. This will result in piped grep commands from sessiondump such as: sessiondump <args> | grep <search value> returning the text: Binary file (standard input) matches instead of the expected output. Note that this problem exists in APM version 12.
Administrator cannot use "grep" command with sessiondump.
Using sessiondump command with pipe to grep.
Use "-a" option with grep. For example: sessiondump <args> | grep -a <search value>
The sessiondump utility was modified. The NULL termination byte of a NULL-terminated string is no longer printed. Furthermore, non-printable data is now printed as a hexdump, instead of raw binary data.